Assistant Principal (School Culture)

Huntington Park, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 4 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

Seeking a Highschool Assistant Principal of School Culture for SY26/27 in Huntington Park

ABOUT ASPIRE

Aspire Public Schools operates a network of high-performing college preparatory charter schools serving TK-12 scholars in communities across California. Founded in 1998in an effort to transform the inequitable racial social and gender outcomes that our communities persist throughAspire is one of the largest and most forward-thinking open-enrollment public charter school systems in the nation.

Our purpose is to prepare our scholars for success in college career and life. At Aspire we set a foundation for our scholars to gain knowledge skills and power to access and make choices for their families and post-secondary lives. Every day our community of students families teachers and staff comes together to learn work and play in an environment grounded in our values of Bienestar (Well-Being) Culture of Belonging Community Partnership Agency & Self-Determination and Joy.

JOB SUMMARY

Assist the Site Principal in managing all the functions of an individual school site for academic and extended school year including education program school culture office operations budget community relations personnel and facilities in accordance with Aspire standards.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions

Provide Instructional Leadership for the school site including

Maintain school-wide focus on high standards of student achievement
Maintain curriculum standards and liaise with content leads to design and implement curriculum
Model Aspire instructional guidelines
Manage process for analyzing data to increase student achievement including students with special needs and related compliance and collaboration with SPED and Student Services colleagues
Design and lead high quality professional development to increase instructional capacity of staff
Support and coaching of new and veteran teachers toward growth including supporting new Teachers through Induction

Assist in managing human resources including

Attract and select top performers
Coach evaluate and provide professional development opportunities
Develop collaborative team culture
Adhere to company policy and state/federal employment laws
Consult with Human Resources as appropriate including for all performance management related concerns

Assist in managing all resources at school site and/or manage specified grant or categorical funds

including

Set and maintain a balanced budget
Adhere to restrictions and reporting requirements of funds
Plan for future needs
Adhere to company policy and protocols for sound fiscal management

Represent the school site in building an effective school community including

Design and lead high quality professional development that develops and supports healthy school culture including SEL learning
Communicate with parents to better serve students
Garner support from community groups and leaders
Develop positive relationships with sponsoring district and neighborhood schools
Lead and collaborate with Behavior Response and Wellness teams from a trauma-informed and Restorative Justice lens in alignment with compliance protocol and in partnership with Student Services including: 504 plan compliance; Student Support Discipline Deescalation supervision of students as needed and management of any outside partnerships as applicable

Assist in managing daily operations facilities safety and administrative processes

Address issues and problems that arise in a principle-centered creative thoughtful and constructive way
Serve as administrative lead when Principal attends off-site meetings providing supervision for staff
Provide leadership and support for extracurricular and partnership programs as applicable especially at the Secondary level
Collaborate with Principal to support Master Scheduling

Lead projects as discussed with principal including

Long-term strategic planning process improvement cycle of inquiry-driven instructional improvements operational improvement charter renewal and oversight accreditation or any other projects required at the school site
Work in collaboration with School Site Leadership and Home Office to achieve site and organizational goals

Additional:

Demonstrate knowledge of and support the Aspire Public Schools mission vision value statements including antiracism policies and procedures operating instructions confidentiality standards and the code of ethical behavior
Perform other related duties as required and assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

Competencies:

Demonstrated commitment to students and learning
Experience with instructional leadership including demonstrated knowledge of curriculum instruction assessment and developing teachers
Excellent communication presentation and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to write clearly and persuasively and interact effectively with different audiences
Excellent organization time management and follow-up skills; high sense of urgency; demonstrated ability to successfully handle multiple projects concurrently; ability to work as a team
Entrepreneurial passion

Minimum educational level:

Bachelors Degree required;
Masters or Ph.D. in Education preferred

Certifications and/or Licensure:

Administrative Credential preferred
NCLB Highly Qualified preferred

Experience required:

3 years working with urban students as a full-time teacher preferred
7 years teaching and administrative experience

Physical requirements:

Stand walk or bend over kneel crouch reach overhead grasp push and pull. Move lift and/or carry up to 30 pounds to shoulder height
Repetitive use of hands (i.e. fine manipulation simple grasping and power grasping)
Demonstrate normal depth perception
Sitting walking or standing for extended periods of time
Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard operate standard office equipment and use a telephone
See and read a computer screen and printed matter with or without vision aids
Hear and understand speech at normal levels and on the telephone with or without auditory aides

Work authorization requirements:

Clear the Department of Justice background screening
Authorized to work in the United States
Provide health (TB) clearance (most update every four years)

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics are representative of those in a normal office classroom/school setting which one might encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work indoors in a standard office environment computer lab and/or classroom environment
Work is performed in indoor and outdoor environments
Exposure to dust oils and cleaning chemicals
Some exposure to childhood and other diseases in a school environment
May be required to work outside of typical work days and office hours to meet operational deadlines

Compensation:
Aspire Public Schools is dedicated to our teammates well-being! In addition to a competitive base salary that is benchmarked against local districts and charter schools we offer our full time employees exceptional benefits including paid time off 100% core health benefits coverage on select plans life insurance/long-term disability participation in a CA state retirement plan tuition reimbursement plan and adoption assistance program.
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Aspire Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race color gender religion age sexual orientation national or ethnic origin disability marital status veteran status or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. Aspire promotes affirmative action for minorities women disabled persons and veterans.

Required Experience:

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DescriptionSeeking a Highschool Assistant Principal of School Culture for SY26/27 in Huntington ParkABOUT ASPIREAspire Public Schools operates a network of high-performing college preparatory charter schools serving TK-12 scholars in communities across California. Founded in 1998in an effort to tran...