Assistant Principal - Elementary School for the 2025-2026 School Year
Assistant Principal - Elementary School for the 2025-2026 School Year
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Job Description
Position Title: Assistant Principal - Elementary Levels
Pay Grade: A-1 Period of Employment: 12 months
Description Approved/ Revised: 06/2024 FLSA Status: Exempt
Supervised by and/or Reports to: Principal
General Responsibilities: Assists in providing leadership in creating and managing a safe supportive and positive learning environment where all students excel and staff is empowered; shares the vision of high performance and collaboration while engaging parents and community partners in the support of student achievement.
Essential Duties:
(This list is intended solely as an illustration of the various types of work performed. The omission of specific duties does not exclude their addition if they are similar to or a logical extension of the position.)
Qualities and Leadership:
- Demonstrates success improving underperforming student achievement and making a difference in high needs communities.
- Demonstrates proven school leadership.
- Builds effective teams committed to the schools vision and mission.
- Practices ethical standards to promote and sustain a positive school culture and climate and rigorous instructional program that supports the whole student and is conducive to high performance and staff professional growth.
- Exhibits an extensive background and expertise in the areas of curriculum instruction program assessment and data analysis.
- Displays a participatory management and leadership style that fosters a climate of high expectations collaboration maintains accountability and emphasizes a steadfast focus on the success of students.
- Shows a knowledge of response to intervention practices.
- Reveals an appreciation of the visual and performing arts community service athletics and other enrichment programs in the development of the whole student.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assists in providing strong leadership for the activities supporting the Manassas City Public Schools educational process to include establishing and maintaining a positive learning climate scheduling classes to meet student needs supervising all support services for the school and ensuring proper student conduct and discipline procedures are maintained.
- Assists in the supervision of the schools teaching process and curriculum design utilizing resources from central office as necessary.
- Uses current research to drive dramatic gains in student achievement.
- Assists in the evaluation instructional and support personnel based on division evaluation models to ensure the retention of quality personnel.
- Establishes and maintains a favorable relationship with parents local community groups business industry and individuals to foster understanding and to solicit support for school activities.
- Assists in communicating Board policies and directives from the superintendent to the community.
- Meets with parents to proactively resolve student problems.
- Assists in the orientation of all staff members to the building and the various departments/grade levels and ensures continuing professional development throughout the building.
- Assists in the supervision and implementation of specialized education programs offered at the school.
- Assists with various athletic programs extra-curricular activities music and dramatics programs and school sponsored social events to support maximum student participation.
- Consults with division leadership to formulate plans and direction for the overall strategic direction of the school relative to the outlined initiatives.
- Attends division meetings as required.
- Actively supports the MCPS Strategic Plan.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Requisite Education Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to plan supervise and evaluate the work of others based on individual strengths and weaknesses and to guide their professional growth.
- Thorough understanding of the change process and demonstrated ability to lead staff in the school improvement process.
- Possess extensive knowledge of the curriculum and instructional program including content and methodologies and the integration of technology into the intermediate level instructional program.
- Ability to analyze interpret and utilize data.
- Demonstrated ability to use research-based practices that results in higher student achievement.
- Ability to plan supervise and evaluate the work of others based on individual strengths and weaknesses and to guide their professional growth.
- Serve as a role model.
Requisite Education and Experience:
- Must possess or be eligible for a Virginia Postgraduate Professional License with an Administration and Supervision Pre-K-12 endorsement.
- Preferred applicants include those with three to five years teaching experience knowledge of appropriate level school organizational philosophy and evidence of a minimum of three years of successful school-level leadership experience.
Physical Requirements:
Must have the use of sensory skills in order to effectively communicate and interact with other employees and the public through the use of the telephone and personal contact as normally defined by the ability to see read talk hear handle or feel objects and controls. Physical capability to effectively use and operate various items of office related equipment such as but not limited to: a personal computer calculator copier and fax machine. Significant climbing stooping kneeling crouching reaching standing walking pushing pulling lifting grasping or repetitive motions required.
Manassas City Public Schools (MCPS) does not discriminate in employment nor in the provision of educational programs services and activities on the basis of race color religion national origin sex gender identity sexual orientation pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions age marital status veteran status disability genetic information or any other basis prohibited by law.
This job description is intended to accurately reflect the position activities and requirements. It is neither intended to be nor should it be construed as an all-inclusive list of the responsibilities skills or working conditions associated with the position. Administration reserves the right to modify assign or remove duties as necessary.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
