Assistant Principal High School

Job Title: High School Assistant Principal (Sci-Tech High School)

Job-Type: Full-time

Contract Days: 220 Days

Reports to: Campus Principal

Job Goal

At Wayside Schools, we seek staff with diverse backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, talents and ideas to meet the needs of our growing body of scholars and dynamic programming. At Wayside, we know that leaders who possess specific traits and competencies are more likely to be successful in their roles and in their service to staff, scholars and families: passion for our mission, a deep connection to issues of social justice, a commitment to all scholars we serve and a focus on personal growth and development.

The high school assistant principal will be responsible, with the support of the principal for ensuring that every scholar achieves the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits necessary to be successful in a four-year university and beyond. The principal will accomplish this objective by promoting a collaborative campus culture, setting and maintaining high expectations, supporting the development of instructional staff and building relationships with a variety of stakeholders.

ABOUT WAYSIDE SCH OOLS: Wayside Schools is an open-enrollment, tuition-free Pre-K3-12th grade public charter school network that provides over 1,900 scholars across its five South Austin schools with a rigorous International Baccalaureate education. Since 2012, Wayside schools has striven to empower historically underserved scholars, providing them with the instructional experiences, academic skills, intellectual habits, and social and emotional competencies needed to become graduates from four-year colleges and universities, providing them with the access and opportunities they need to narrate their own futures and positively impact and empower the families and communities to which they belong.

Qualifications:
Education/Certification

• Bachelor's Degree (Required)
• Master's Degree in an education-related field (Preferred)
• Administrative Certification (Preferred)

Experience:

• A minimum of 3 years of teaching experience in a low-income school
• A minimum of 2 years of experience serving in campus leadership role such as coach, mentor teacher, team leader or curriculum support
• An understanding of the specific, unique characteristics of public charter schools, Texas-specific knowledge a plus
• A proven track record of success managing school leaders to achieve ambitious goals; previous experience supporting the full array of responsibilities and challenges faced by school principals preferred but not required
• Outstanding leadership and management skills, particularly as it relates to building teams, working through others, promoting collaboration, managing conflict, goal setting, and holding people accountable
• An entrepreneurial spirit and demonstrated success in building a program, department or organization
• The flexibility needed to accommodate the breadth and depth of responsibilities and priorities
• Outstanding written, speaking, and organizational skills, including excellence in backwards planning long-term goals, accountability and progress monitoring systems
• Ability to interact with a broad range of stakeholders with different interests and needs
• Deep commitment to improving the lives of scholars from low-income communities
• Demonstrated passion for the mission, vision and values of Wayside Schools
• Alignment to our commitment to provide access to rigorous and well-balanced
• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Google suite