Principal - Wacousta Elementary
Principal - Wacousta Elementary
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Job Description
Position: Principal
Summary: Serves as the leader of the school who is responsible for student achievement school management staff excellence and school budget.
Reports to: Superintendent
Salary & Benefits: Salary will commensurate with experience and qualifications and in compliance with the Grand Ledge Administrators Educational Associations Master Agreement. A competitive benefit package is also available.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Note: These duties and responsibilities are judged to be essential functions in terms of the Americans With Disabilities Act or ADA. 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 skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The statements below are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by a person in this position. They are not constructed as an exhaustive list of all duties that may be performed by such a person.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Develops and administers school programs consistent with school district goals and objectives.
- Provides leadership and direction to staff with regard to the ongoing evaluation and improvement of educational programs including curricular and extracurricular activities.
- Promotes a school environment that is safe and conducive to individualized instruction cooperative curriculum development and student learning.
- Ensures that Board policies procedures and negotiated contracts are implemented enforced and followed at the school.
- Continues to acquire professional knowledge and learn of current developments in the educational field by attending seminars workshops or professional meetings or by conducting research.
- Encourages staff to continue to grow professionally and to experiment with new approaches or strategies to teaching.
- Creates a building schedule for all staffing and specials classes needs based upon enrollment.
- Ensures that student conduct conforms with the schools standards and school district policies.
- Organizes and manages the budget for the building.
- Supervises and evaluates dean of students teaching staff and building support.
- Knowledge and/or experience with Title funding and other atrisk funds.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to communicate well with school personnel and parents while complying with the confidentiality requirements in local state and federal policies.
- Demonstrated advanced skills with technology tools to create complex documents spreadsheets pivot tables and databases.
- Demonstrated ability to use data systems to analysis data as well as cleaning data in data systems.
- Demonstrated strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Demonstrated ability to organize work routines set priorities and meet deadlines.
- Ability in developing successful working relationships with staff parents students and community members
- Knowledge of instructional leadership classroom management and community relations
- Ability in representing the interests of the Board or Education Elementary and the community with integrity and credibility
- Strong professional ethics
- Proficient at identifying problems establishing priorities and implementing solutions consistent with the school districts longrange goals
- Ability in articulating communicating and supporting wellreasoned positions on important issues within the building and school district
- Ability in leading staff and achieve consensus on the instructional focus and methods implemented at Holbrook Elementary School at ensure student success
- Ability in modeling instructional methods and evaluating teachers in the classroom
Requirements
- Masters Degree in Educational Administration Educational Leadership or Curriculum
- Must hold or qualify for Michigan Administrative Certification or be willing to enroll in an Administrative Certificate Program
- Valid Michigan Teaching Certificate
- Previous successful classroom teaching experience required.
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger handle or feel objects tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to sit and stoop kneel crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds such as books and materials.
The employee shall remain free of any alcohol or nonprescribed controlled substance in the workplace throughout his/her employment in the District.
Grand Ledge Public Schools shall provide equal opportunity and shall not discriminate in matters of employment or enrollment on the basis of age religion race traits historically associated with race including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles color national origin gender/sex sexual orientation gender identity disability height weight or marital status in its programs services or activities.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
