Certified Position - Principal
(240 days)
QUALIFICATIONS :
Master’s Degree with certification in Administration
Minimum of three years successful teaching and/or administrative experience.
Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the board may find appropriate and acceptable.
REPORTS TO : Superintendent of Education
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS :
- Serves as the instructional and administrative leader of the school.
- Provides effective leadership in planning, developing, implementing and evaluating instructional programs.
- Improves instruction through consistent classroom observation and feedback.
- Identifies day-to-day challenges in the classroom, recognizes barriers to program delivery, and collaborates with staff to address these challenges.
- Ensures students receive appropriate placement and services.
- Works with staff, students, and community stakeholders to provide a high-quality educational program.
- Supports a comprehensive professional development program for teachers by attending seminars, conferences, and meetings and providing effective turn-around training for school faculty.
- Leads faculty members to achieve high performance through goal setting and evaluation.
- Interprets and enforces federal and state law and state and local board policies.
- Assists in the recruiting, screening, selecting, and assigning of the school’s certified and classified staff.
- Provides leadership in an environment of high expectations for staff and students.
- Formulates and accomplishes the school mission and CIP.
- Assists in securing, maintaining, and managing material resources.
- Prepares and administers the school budget and supervises school finances.
- Assumes responsibility for scheduling.
- Communicates and clarifies the school’s mission to students, staff and community stakeholders.
- Provides a safe, orderly environment that facilitates teaching and learning.
- Provides a climate of high expectations for staff and students.
- Supervises, observes, and evaluates teachers and staff.
- Provides supervision and support for all extracurricular activities during and after school hours.
- Takes a leadership role in improving education.
- Supervises a professional evaluation system as established by the Walker County Board of Education and the Alabama State Board of Education.
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES :
- Ability to maintain confidentiality of specified information as required.
- Ability to maintain professional interpersonal skills with staff, students and parents.
- Ability to communicate effectively & professionally both orally and in writing.
- Ability to organize materials and maintain accurate records.
- Knowledge of school system functions, departments, personnel, and schools necessary for the efficient and effective processing of communications.
- Physical and emotional ability and dexterity to perform required work as needed in a fast-paced, high-intensive work environment.
- Demonstrates professional ethics.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Must have a valid Alabama Certification in Educational Administration, Educational Leadership, or Educational Supervision.
- Must have a minimum of three (3) years of teaching experience.
- Must provide official transcript(s) for all degrees and administrative courses.
- Must submit all qualifications and credentials by the established deadline.
- Must attach a resume to your online application.
- Must attach a resume to your online application.
- Preferred – minimum of two years school site administrative experience
Salary - Per Negotiated Contract
To express interest in this position please contact the Superintendent of the Walker County School System, in addition to your online application.
**Applicants selected for certified positions must have undergone an ABI/FBI criminal history background check (fingerprinting administered through sites selected and approved by the WCBOE and State of Alabama Education Department) and been declared suitable and fit to teach under state law.
THE WALKER COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.
The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities as needed.
