Interviews to be held the week of July 14th
Board approval July 22nd
Anticipated Start Date - August 4th
Job Posting Closes
Iowa City Community School District
Elementary Principal
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Iowa Certification. Elementary Teaching Endorsement & Administrative Endorsement
- MA required
- Administrative experience preferred.
- Participation in professional growth activities.
- Development and presentation of staff development activities
- Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the District may find appropriate and acceptable.
REPORTS TO: Assistant Superintendent/Superintendent
SUPERVISES: Building Staff
JOB GOAL: Provide leadership and supervision to facilitate the educational program offered in the building and the academic and personal development of each student enrolled in the building.
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
Instructional Leadership:
- Completes the formal evaluation of staff according to district guidelines identified in the Teacher Evaluation Handbook.
- Understands and applies effective observation and conferencing skills.
- Identifies and supports the effective teaching of staff.
- Assists the Director of Human Resources in the selection and supervision of all staff certified and support staff assigned to the building
- Establishes standards for student behavior and enforces discipline procedures according to district guidelines.
- Is knowledgeable of and can design alternative organizational patterns and schedules for the building.
- Assists in the development revision supervision and evaluation of the buildings curriculum.
- Monitors the curriculum to ensure that the appropriate content and sequence are followed.
- Participates in the districts curriculum review process and works with district personnel to facilitate building curriculum changes
- Supervises and monitors the instructional program of the school.
- Serves on district committees.
- Develops schedules for the use of Thursday early release teacher inservice time.
- Provides collaborative leadership in implementing a school improvement process.
- Understand the process of consensus building and applies that process both as a leader and as a member of a group.
- Identifies with staff the decision-making procedures the school will follow.
- Supervises the development and implementation of school improvement plan.
Chief Building Administrator:
- Leads the development and implementation of building level important goals.
- Coordinates building activities goals and efforts to ensure their consistency with district level activities goals and efforts.
- Prepares and administers the schools budget.
- Supervises the collection and maintenance of all required school records and reports.
- Facilitates and coordinates the planning and organization of all school activities.
- Assumes responsibility for the implementation of the negotiated agreement and all Board Policies and Administrative Regulations.
- Plans and supervises all emergency drills and procedures.
- Assists in the development of and approves teachers daily schedules
- Develops special area schedules for the building
- Supervises and evaluates volunteers and volunteer activities in the school.
- Establishes and encourages parent involvement in school projects and activities.
- Works to maintain an active parent support group for the building.
- Assumes responsibility for the attendance behavior and health of students while they are participating in school activities.
- Secures support services to meet identified needs of students.
- Provides support and supervision for all extracurricular programs of the building.
Site Manager:
- Manages the operation and maintenance of the building.
- Follows district procedures to make facility and maintenance needs known.
- Establishes five year plans for capital outlay and physical plant needs.
- Works with the Director of the Physical Plant in providing supervision of custodial and maintenance
personnel working in the building.
Professional Responsibilities:
- Effectively communicates with students faculty staff parents community colleges and central administration.
- Assumes responsibility for professional growth through membership and participation in professional organizations enrollment in university courses attendance at professional meetings and the reading of professional journals and other publications.
- Performs other duties as assigned by the superintendent or assistant superintendent.
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: Twelve-Month year. Salary and calendar year to be established by the Board of Education.
EVALUATION: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Boards policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel.