Assistant Principal

Assistant Principal

The assistant principal serves as a member of the administrative team to develop and implement the total school program.

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Pre-Class Organization:
  Assisting to implement student orientation and registration activities.
• Planning the School Program:
  Assisting in the development and establishing of the school’s goals and objectives and the planning of the school’s instructional program.
• Implementing the School Program:
  Assisting to provide direction to staff in implementing goals and objectives and interacting and meeting with staff to assist in their development.
• Evaluating and Remediation the School Program:
  Assisting in the evaluation of the school program and of staff and assisting to initiate needed improvements.
• Involving the Staff in Budget Allocations:
  Involving the staff in setting budget priorities.
• Keeping Professionally Competent:
  Acting to upgrade own professional knowledge and skills.
• Coordinating Budgets and Schedules:
  Assisting in the preparation and management of budgets and schedules and in the coordination and implementation of the co-curricular program.
• Handling Disciplinary Procedures:
  Assisting to define and disseminate information about school discipline policy and procedures to parents, students, staff, and community.
• Coordinating and Communicating the School’s Formal Structure:
  Communicating and carrying out established policies, delegating and accepting responsibility for completion of tasks and communicating program goals, objectives, and policies to the community.
• Coordinating School Services and Resources:
  Assisting in supervising and maintaining auxiliary service and using community resources to supplement the school program.
• Facilitating Organizational Efficiency:
  Promoting and maintaining open communications, positive student attitudes, respecting dignity, worth of staff, students, and complying with established lines of authority.
• Assisting in Record Keeping:
  Assisting in completion of records and reports and in the supervision and inventory of necessary supplies, textbooks, equipment, and materials.

Minimum training and experience includes a master’s degree in education administration and 3 to 5 years of experience as a classroom teacher or any equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Special requirements include a teaching certificate from the State of North Carolina and a valid North Carolina driver’s license.

Minimum qualifications or standards required to perform essential job functions include:

• Physical Requirements:
  
  Ability to operate a variety of equipment including computers, copiers, calculators, cellular phones, etc. Ability to operate a motor vehicle.
• Data Conception:
  Ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics of data, people or things.
• Interpersonal Communication:
  Ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information.
• Language Ability:
  Ability to read and prepare correspondence, reports, forms, charts, strategic plans, etc. Ability to speak before groups of people with poise, voice control, and confidence.
• Intelligence:
  Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Verbal Aptitude:
  Ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions.
• Numerical Aptitude:
  Ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of algebra, descriptive statistics, statistical inference, and statistical theory.
• Form/Spatial Aptitude:
  Ability to inspect items for proper length, width, and shape.
• Motor Coordination:
  Ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.
• Manual Dexterity:
  Ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools.
• Color Discrimination:
  Ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color.
• Interpersonal Temperament:
  Ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Adaptability to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.
• Physical Communication:
  Ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear.) Ability to communicate via telephone.

Disclaimer:
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to this job.