Assistant Principal

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

General Statement of Job

To assist the principal of a school in developing and implementing policies programs curriculum activities and budgets in a manner that promotes the educational development of each student and the professional development of each staff member.

Required education

• Masters degree in School Administration or currently enrolled in a school administrative program
• Valid North Carolina administrators license.
• Successful teaching experience.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Works with the principal to conceptualize the broad goals and vision of the school and plans accordingly to ensure the procedures and schedules are implemented to carry out the total school program.

• Follows all rules policies and procedures of Alexander CountySchools along with state and federal regulations pertaining to all school issues.

• Assists in planning developing coordinating and evaluating the operations of the school.

• Assists with identifying annual objectives for the instructional extracurricular and athletic programs of the school.

• Develops plans for emergency situations in cooperation with staff and public safety agencies.

• Implements clearly defined disciplinary procedures that have been communicated to students staff parents and community.

• Relates to students with mutual respect.

• Assumes leadership of the school in the absence of the principal.

• Involves the faculty and others in the development of specific curricular objectives to meet the needs of the school program in alignment with state requirements.

• Supervises and appraises the performance of the school staff in accordance with state and local requirements.

• Maintains inter-school communications and seeks assistance from central services staff to improve performance; maintains good relationships with students staff and parents; complies with established lines of authority.

• Assists with the development of an effective professional learning community aligned with the school improvement plan focused on results.

• Assists with supervision and conducts personnel administration duties for direct report subordinates including hiring recommendations evaluations assigning special duties monitoring attendance and granting leave.

• Strives to maintain and improve professional competence.

• Encourages the use of community resources cooperates with the community in the use of school facilities interprets the school program for the community and maintains communication with the community members.

Additional duties

Performs other related tasks as assigned by the principal and other central office administrators as designated by the superintendent.

Essential knowledge and abilities

• Must be adaptable to performing under stress when confronted with emergency situations that interrupt normal daily schedules.

• Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions.

• Promotes and maintains open communications positive student attitudes respects dignity worth of staff students and complies with established lines of authority.

• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely both orally and in writing; ability to communicate with school personnel students parents and central office staff.

• Ability to provide leadership and to supervise the planning development and establishment of new modified or improved programs services and activities.

• Demonstrate functional knowledge of computers and all aspects of Microsoft Office and Google software programs as well as software programs implemented by the district or school.

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitated by work assignment.

• Ability to prepare read and comprehend a variety of job related forms reports spreadsheets maps plans records documentation and correspondence.

• Comply with confidential requirements in local state and federal policies and statutes.

• Ability to operate a motor vehicle.

• Physically must be able to exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to move objects.

• Physically maintain the dexterity to perform duties and responsibilities of the job.

The knowledge and abilities described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Required Experience:

Junior IC