Assistant Principal - High School

Job Title:

Assistant Principal – High School

Contract Length: 

260 days (12 month)

FLSA Status:

Exempt

Job Summary

Position is responsible for assisting the school principal in the day-to-day operations of the high school, including the planning, organization, administration, and management of the assigned high school.  Position assists with supervising staff, creating a safe environment, monitoring curriculum, budget development, and other duties associated with the successful operation of a high school.

Essential Duties

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified, to perform the duties herein described.

1. Coordinates and supervises the daily operation of the school’s attendance programs, security functions, transportation, student schedules, teacher observations, in-school suspension, detention operations, and the health clinic and works in cooperation with central office administrators/supervisors who have division-wide responsibility for these operations.
2. Assists in establishing the school’s student discipline plan and the school’s plan for ensuring a safe and orderly environment.
3. Administers the student discipline program at the assigned school.
4. Assists the High school principal in ensuring that the school’s policies and procedures related to student discipline referrals and discipline action plans meet state, federal, and division requirements.
5. Supervises and coordinates the preparation of student discipline review documents as required by School Board policy.
6. Conferences with parents/guardians of students concerning discipline, attendance, and student behavior.
7. Conferences with students referred for violations of the Code of Conduct, administers disciplinary action as necessary, and notifies parents/guardians of action taken.
8. Consults with student services personnel to find long term solutions to inappropriate student behavior.
9. Provides staff development for the instructional staff and other assigned personnel regarding school security, the Code of Conduct, classroom management, effective discipline strategies, and conferencing techniques.
10. Supervises the daily activities of personnel in the attendance, security, transportation, and health clinic operations at the assigned school.
11. Schedules staff to cover classes when needed.
12. Conducts security bag checks at the beginning of school and at events when necessary.
13. Coordinates the scheduling of buses with the transportation department.
14. Supervises the CTE/Badger program.
15. Assists the High school principal in establishing and sustaining relationships with the business community and other youth serving organizations to foster understanding and solicit support for students and their families.
16. Monitors halls, lunches, school grounds, pupil movement, and student interactions to ensure a safe and orderly environment at the assigned school.
17. Attends and supervises after-school, evening, and weekend school sponsored events, games, and activities as assigned.
18. Articulates and supports school safety initiatives to the faculty and school community.
19. Seeks ways to develop and sustain a climate of mutual respect between and among the students and adults who participate in the school.
20. Prepares related reports and records as required by the school division, local, state, or federal government.
21. Models nondiscriminatory practices in all activities.
22. Stays informed of developments and research pertaining to safe and orderly schools.
23. Performs any other related duties as assigned by the Principal or other appropriate administrator.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• Eligibility for a Virginia Postgraduate Professional License in administration and supervision.
• Three (3) years of successful experience as a teacher; some experience at the High school level preferable.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Comprehensive knowledge of the current issues, principles, and practices in public high school education and the ability to meet the needs of a school.
• Knowledge and effective skills in curriculum development, instructional practices, interpretation of test data, and budget development.
• Ability to assist with administering and managing the operation of a high school.
• Ability to plan and supervise the work of others.
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, staff, parents, and the public.

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements

Must have the ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time; exhibit manual dexterity to dial a telephone, to enter data into a computer; to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors and on the telephone; speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone; physical agility to lift up to 25 pounds; and to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk and reach overhead.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Duties are normally performed in a school/classroom environment.  Duties may be occasionally performed on field trips away from school.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Clearance

Criminal Justice Background check, Fingerprinting, TB Assessment

Supervision Exercised

Assigned staff

Supervision Received

Principal