Our Lady of Perpetual Help School Principal

Grove City, OH - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School

Principal

Full-Time

Catholic Required

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School located at 3752 Broadway in Grove City Ohio is seeking a dedicated faith-filled leader for the position of Principal beginning in the summer of 2026.

The principal serves as the educational leader of the school entrusted with safeguarding and advancing a Catholic liberal education ordered toward truth goodness and beauty and faithful to the teachings of the Catholic Church. He/she is responsible for the overall leadership of the school ensuring that all aspects of academic life faculty formation governance and school culture are ordered to the mission of Catholic education reflecting the vision of the Bishop and the Pastor. The principal leads through intellectual vision moral witness and prudent stewardship fostering a community of learning rooted in wonder and wisdom.

The primary responsibilities of this position are:

Mission and Catholic Identity

Serve as the chief guardian of the schools Catholic identity ensuring fidelity to the Magisterium of the Church.
Promote an integrated vision of faith and reason consistent with the Catholic intellectual tradition.
Collaborate closely with the Pastor director of religious education and diocesan leadership in sacramental and spiritual life.

Academic Leadership & Liberal Education

Provide intellectual leadership for the schools curriculum.
Ensure that instruction fosters wonder contemplation and a love of truth along with a mastery of foundational skills ordered toward wisdom and integration across disciplines
Uphold Catholic instructional pedagogy including discussion narration memorization and Socratic inquiry.

Faculty Formation and Supervision

Hire mentor and evaluate faculty according to their commitment to Catholic education.
Provide ongoing formation in ICLE (Institute of Catholic Liberal Education) principles pedagogy and Catholic intellectual tradition.
Foster a faculty culture of docility collaboration and shared pursuit of wisdom

School Culture & Student Formation

Cultivate an orderly joyful and reverent school culture.
Ensure discipline serves formation in virtue and freedom.
Partner with parents as the primary educators of their children.

Governance and Administration

Provide prudent administrative oversight in service of the schools mission.
Collaborate with the pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help School Advisory Board and the diocesan Office of Catholic Schools.
Oversee budgeting staffing enrollment and resource allocation in alignment with educational priorities.

Community and Advancement

Serve as the public face of the schools mission to families parishes and the broader community.
Communicate clearly the nature and value of Catholic liberal education to prospective families.
Foster strong relationships with parents alumni benefactors and clergy.

The successful applicant will be a practicing Catholic in good standing with the Church who has a demonstrated commitment to Catholic liberal education as well as experience in educational or faculty leadership. He/she should have experience in Catholic liberal education as well as training from ICLE or the willingness to engage in this formation. The successful applicant will also understand leadership as custodianship of a traditionone that forms students to know reality rightly love God above all things and live virtuously in the world.

He/she should possess a Masters degree and administrators license or be eligible to obtain one. A current FBI/BCI background check attendance at the VIRTUS Protecting Gods Children seminar and a completed online principal application (below) for theDiocese of Columbusmust be submitted as part of the application process. Salary is commensurate with the candidates education and experience.

If you are interested in this challenging and rewarding opportunity along with completing the principal application below please forward a letter of interest and resume to Carrie Ramsay Associate Director for Personnel and Licensure at . Include in your submission a letter of membership and parish participation statement of educational philosophy college transcripts and a list of three references.

The application deadline is March 6 2026.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic SchoolPrincipalFull-TimeCatholic RequiredOur Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School located at 3752 Broadway in Grove City Ohio is seeking a dedicated faith-filled leader for the position of Principal beginning in the summer of 2026.The principal serves as the edu...