Middle School Principal

JOB GOAL

To provide leadership in developing and maintaining the best possible educational system and service.

About the role

Position/Title: Principal
Terms of Employment: 11 Months
Salary: As per District Salary Schedule
FLSA Status: Exempt
Benefits: Standard Package

Qualifications

• Must be certified in the State of Arizona as a principal and have all the coursework required to carry out the responsibilities fully and effectively
• An understanding and familiarity with Navajo/Hopi education and the particular situation, circumstances, and problems that are involved is preferred
• AZ SEI Endorsement required (or must obtain within the first year)

Responsibilities

• Promotes the success of every student by facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported by all stakeholders
• Collaboratively develops and implements a shared vision and mission
• Collects and uses data to identify goals, assesses organizational effectiveness, and promotes organizational learning
• Creates and implements plans to achieve goals
• Promotes continuous and sustainable improvement
• Makes and evaluates progress and revises plans
• Promotes the success of every student by advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth
• Nurtures and sustains a culture of collaboration, trust, learning, and high expectations
• Creates a comprehensive, rigorous, and coherent curricular program
• Creates a personalized and motivating learning environment for students
• Supervises instruction
• Develops assessment and accountability systems to monitor student progress
• Develops the instructional and leadership capacity of staff
• Maximizes time spent on quality instruction
• Promotes the use of the most effective and appropriate technologies to support teaching and learning
• Makes and evaluates the impact of the instructional program
• Promotes the success of every student by ensuring management of the organization, operation, and resources for a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment
• Makes and evaluates the management and operational systems
• Obtains, allocates, aligns, and efficiently utilizes human, fiscal, and technological resources
• Promotes and protects the welfare and safety of students and staff
• Develops the capacity for distributed leadership
• Ensures teacher and organizational time is focused to support quality instruction and student learning
• Promotes the success of every student by collaborating with faculty and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources
• Collects and analyzes data and information pertinent to the educational environment
• Promotes understanding, appreciation, and use of the community's diverse cultural, social, and intellectual resources
• Buils and sustains positive relationships with families and caregivers
• Buils and sustains productive relationships with community partners
• Promotes the success of every student by acting with integrity, fairness, and in an ethical manner
• Ensures a system of accountability for every student's academic and social success
• Models principles of self-awareness, reflective practice, transparency, and ethical behavior
• Safeguards the values of democracy, equity, and diversity
• Considers and evaluates the potential moral and legal consequences of decision-making
• Promotes social justice and ensures that individual student needs inform all aspects of schooling
• Promotes the success of every student by understanding, responding to, and influencing the political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context
• Advocates for children, families, and caregivers
• Acts to influence local, district, state, and national decisions affecting student learning
• Affirms and analyzes emerging trends and initiatives in order to adapt leadership strategies

Skills

Not specified

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Mental Health Benefits for employee and dependent (Calm and Modern Health)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Retirement Plan
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development
• Employee Assistance Program