Elementary Assistant Principal
Elementary Assistant Principal for the 2023/24 School Year
Job Description
Purpose: The 21st-century school administrator provides leadership, management, and supervisory skills that promote learning for each student. They lead others and stand for the ideas and values that help develop lifelong learners and future leaders within the District. The assistant principal works closely with students, parents/guardians, building, and district staff to accomplish these tasks. A successful building administrator also has a set of beliefs and a skill set that guides the school in day-to-day operations to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of all students, staff, and families, as well as the instructional success of all students. The building administrator also orchestrates a complex, dynamic, and collaborative learning community daily where students and student learning are always the central focus.
Responsible to: Superintendent & Building Principal(s)
Supervises: All Building Certified and Classified
FLSA Status: Exempt, Salaried
Payment rate: $75,000 - $80,000 per year, commensurate with experience and education.
Qualifications:
- A valid Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) Building Leadership/Building Administrator license that includes grades PK-5.
- Master's degree or doctorate in educational leadership or related field.
- Two or more years of successful experience in a building or district administrative position within the field of education. (preferred)
- Experience overseeing and managing after-school activities.
- Ability to listen, synthesize, and communicate effectively, both in oral and written forms.
- History of superior professionalism and decorum.
- Highly organized, detail orientated, and history of meeting timeline due dates.
- A valid driver's license.
- Health and Inoculation Certificate on file in the District Office (after an employment offer is made).
- The desire to continue career improvement by enhancing skills and job performance.
Essential Functions:
- Work closely with staff, students, parents, and the military community on research-based strategies that continuously improve student achievement and instruction.
- Provide professional leadership for organizing, administering, supervising, and evaluating a creative school program using consensus-building and data-based processes.
- Establish an optimal learning environment within the school.
- Ensure all school programs and activities conform to District, KSBE guidelines, and the Military Interstate Compact.
- Establish a positive learning environment and respond to the individual needs of students.
- Communicate effectively and constructively with the school district and community members.
- React positively to change and frequent interruptions, meeting deadlines as assigned.
- Works collaboratively with the principal(s) to implement the district's vision, mission, and goals.
- Utilize current technologies to support leadership and management functions.
- Effectively supervise the instructional performance of staff through frequent and ongoing observations/walkthroughs.
- Align resources to improve instruction and learning performance for all students.
- Supervise, direct, motivate, and evaluate assigned employees' job performance.
- Model commitment and dedication to work.
- Demonstrate initiative, work independently and/or collaboratively, without supervision, and complete work efficiently.
- Assist in collecting, reviewing, and processing building data to determine specific goals, strategies, and measurement of progress.
- Makes decisions in collaboration with the principal that considers alternatives, consequences, and applicable available data/information.
- Adheres to all federal, state, and district policies and procedures.
- Oversee and supervise all before and after school activities, including but not limited to clubs, music programs, academic events, etc.
- Supervise the preparation of accurate budgets and effectively monitor expenditures each school year.
- Act following district policies as well as state and federal regulations.
- Model superior attendance at work.
General Responsibilities:
- Work with and engage staff in a shared vision for effective teaching and learning by implementing the district's core curriculum resources.
- Reacts positively under pressure, handles and balances multiple demands simultaneously, and performs duties and tasks at expected levels of professionalism.
- Proactively engage military family support of each child's learning and school learning goals.
- Utilize meaningful feedback from students, staff, parents, and the school community to evaluate school programs and procedures.
- Monitor and assist in developing Individual Education Plans for applicable students.
- Monitor and assist in the development of 504 plans for applicable students.
- Works collaboratively with the Principal(s) and Director of Student Services with student discipline and student services.
- Treat all stakeholders fairly and with dignity and respect. Protects the rights and confidentiality of students and staff.
- Provide effective behavior management and guidance to students and staff.
- Keep current on changes and developments in the profession by attending professional meetings, reading professional journals and other publications, and discussing concerns of mutual interest with others in the field.
- Develop, plan, organize and present effective building professional development for staff.
- Effectively plan and conduct meaningful and productive meetings, including but not limited to staff development, staff orientations, student orientations, parent meetings, IEP Team meetings, BLT Meetings, SIT Meetings, etc.
- Effectively oversee and manage all extracurricular activities and budgets in coordination with Building Principal(s).
- Assist in providing support and training for activities coaches/sponsors.
- Assist the principal in the direction and management of extracurricular activities.
- Build a high aspirations and achievement culture for every student and staff member.
- Prepare and submit all required federal, state, and District reports and staff evaluations in a timely and accurate manner.
- Other duties as assigned by District administration.
Physical Requirements/Environmental Conditions:
- Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time.
- Ability to enter data into a computer, to see and read a computer screen, and to print material with or without vision aids.
- Ability to hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors, and on the telephone.
- Ability to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in standard classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone.
- Ability to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk, and reach overhead.
- Requires physical exertion to manually lift, carry, pull or push heavy objects or materials up to 25 pounds.
- Must occasionally work in noisy and crowded environments, with numerous interruptions.
Term of Employment: 220-Day Contract
Evaluation: Performance effectiveness will be evaluated following Kansas Statutes and Board of Education Policy provisions.
Ft Leavenworth USD 207 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training or promoting on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, disability, veterans status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected status under local, state or federal law.