Assistant Elementary School Principal - Moultrie, United States - Colquitt County Schools

Description

Assistant Elementary School Principal

Site: School

Position Title: Assistant Principal

Reports To: Principal

Primary Function:
Assist the principal of the school in providing leadership and guidance in the effective, efficient operations of the assigned school, managing the curriculum and instructional program, and maintaining a safe, orderly environment conducive to learning.

Requirements:

Educational Level: Masters Degree.

Certification/Licensing: Leadership Certification

Proficiency Skills: Written and oral communication skills, administrative, supervisory and leadership skills. Ability to deal with multiple tasks, computer competence, organizational and interpersonal skills.

Personal Skills: Pleasant personality, cooperative attitude, physical skills and stamina to perform essential duties.

GENERAL
1. Maintains a pattern of prompt and regular attendance.
2. Demonstrates knowledge and proficiency in the use of internet, email and other computer applications as applicable to job responsibilities.
3. Demonstrates appropriate verbal, written and telephone communication skills.
4. Acts in a professional manner and maintains a professional attitude towards the public and colleagues; adheres to cultural diversity guidelines, and exhibits the fundamentals of good public/customer service.
5. Complies with school, system, state and federal regulations and policies, including the PSC Code of Ethics, as related to job requirements.
6. Maintains confidentiality of sensitive information and material; adheres to chain of command.
7. Maintains a professional appearance as appropriate for job responsibilities.
8. Maintains and improves knowledge and skills to promote proficiency in the operations of an organized, modern, updated and efficient school.
9. Participates in professional organizations, workshops and staff development activities and applies what is learned to the job; accepts new challenges in a professional manner.
10. Shows initiative and assumes responsibility for all aspects of job responsibilities; performs routine duties and tasks with little or no direct supervision.
11. Exhibits time on task and a flexible, cooperative, progressive and hard working attitude and style.
12. Communicates vision/mission to school personnel as appropriate.
13. Reports to principal about status of programs.
14. Makes recommendations of appropriate actions and alternatives to the principal.
15. Keeps abreast of and informs the principal of changes in rules and regulations of the Georgia Board of Education and state and federal laws concerning area of responsibility.
16. Keeps abreast of and informs the principal of current trends and developments concerning area of responsibility.
17. Plans and implements school budget according to system guidelines and procedures.
18. Ensures expenditures are within approved limits.
19. Monitors compliance with policies and laws concerning area of responsibility.
20. Enhances the climate of the building and the morale of colleagues.
21. Demonstrates loyalty to the school system and administration.
22. Performs other duties as assigned by the principal.

Assistant Principals must demonstrate proficiency in five out of 7 of the primary dimensions below. For areas of responsibility not assigned a score of NA may be given.

CURRICULUM
23. Assures the quality of teacher's lessons were high and reflected the school system standards.
24. Assures that the curriculum addresses all levels of students.
25. Assures that the curriculum that teachers used reflected the school system's academic standards.

STUDENT PERFORMANCE
26. Provides documentation annually to principal or designee relating to status and progress of student achievement.
27. Met or exceeded established benchmarks for student achievement.
28. Met or exceeded established benchmarks for student attendance.
29. Met or exceeded established benchmarks for participation in higher level classes and/or groupings.

STAFF PERFORMANCE
30. Conducts appropriate staff evaluations and provides staff with meaningful feedback regarding ways to improve their performance.
31. Identifies staff who required improvement and developed appropriate improvement plans.
32. Provides appropriate documentation of ineffective performance for staff who demonstrated lack of competence, ineffective practices, poor performance of their students and/or an unwillingness to improve.

COMPREHENSIVE IMPROVEMENT PLANS
33. Provides leadership in collaboratively developing the school improvement plan.
34. Employs strategies in the school improvement plan that focus on areas identified in needs assessments.
35. Involves all personnel in supporting efforts of the classroom teachers.

ACADEMIC FOCUS
36. Provides school staff with sufficient flexibility in the use of time, support from non-classroom teachers to support classroom teachers and resources to assure that student needs at all achievement levels are served appropriately.
37. Assures that appropriate remediation is implemented for students not achieving on grade level.
38. Assures that effective behavior plans are developed and disseminated to students, teachers, and parents and implemented throughout the school in every classroom

ORGANIZATIONAL SETTING AND ADMINISTRATIVE PERFORMANCE
39. Manages the school and school plant efficiently in a neat, clean safe and inviting manner.
40. Completed paperwork, reports and made decisions in a timely and responsive fashion.

COMMUNICATIONS
41. Communicates the academic standards, objectives and expectations for student performance to all students, parents and the school community.
42. Maintains open two-way communications regarding program initiatives and/or problems with central office.