About this role
Job Title: Assistant Principal – Chincoteague Combined School
Contract Length: 260 days (12 month)
Fair Labor Standard Act Status: Exempt
Job Summary The position is responsible for assisting the school principal in the day-to-day operations of the school, including the planning, organization, administration, and management of the assigned middle/high school. The position assists with supervising staff, creating a safe environment, monitoring curriculum, budget development, and other duties associated with the successful operation of a middle/high school. Essential Duties In order to perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified, to perform the duties herein described.
• Supports the school principal in the general administration of the school.
• Coordinates and supervises the daily operation of the school's attendance programs, security functions, transportation, student schedules, teacher observations, in-school suspension, detention operations, and the health clinic, as well as work in cooperation with central office administrators/supervisors who have division-wide responsibility for these operations.
• Assists in establishing the school's student discipline plan and the school's plan for ensuring a safe and orderly environment.
• Administers the student discipline program at the assigned school.
• Assists the school principal in ensuring that the school's policies and procedures related to student discipline referrals and discipline action plans meet state, federal, and division requirements.
• Conferences with the parents/guardians of students concerning attendance and student behavior.
• Conferences with students referred for violations of the Code of Student Conduct and Student Handbook, administers disciplinary action as necessary, and notifies parents/guardians of action taken.
• Consults with student services personnel to find long-term solutions to inappropriate student behavior.
• Provides staff development for the instructional staff and other assigned personnel regarding school security, the Code of Student Conduct and Student Handbook, classroom management, effective discipline strategies, and conferencing techniques.
• Supervises the daily activities of personnel in attendance, security, transportation, and health clinic operations at the assigned school.
• Schedules staff to cover classes when needed.
• Conducts security bag checks at the beginning of school and at events when necessary.
• Coordinates the scheduling of buses with the transportation department.
• Supervises the CTE/Badger program.
• Assists the principal in establishing and sustaining relationships with the business community and other youth-serving organizations to foster understanding and solicit support for students and their families.
• Monitors halls, lunches, school grounds, pupil movement, and student interactions to ensure a safe and orderly environment at the assigned school.
• Attends and supervises after-school, evening, and weekend school-sponsored events, games, and activities as assigned.
• Supports and articulates school safety initiatives to the faculty and school community.
• Seeks ways to develop and sustain a climate of mutual respect between and among the students and adults in the school.
• Prepares related reports and records as required by the school division, local, state, or federal government.
• Models nondiscriminatory practices in all activities.
• Stays informed of developments and research about safe and orderly schools.
• Performs any other related duties as assigned by the principal or appropriate administrator.
Minimum Qualifications
• Master's degree from an accredited college or university.
• Eligibility for a Virginia Postgraduate Professional License in administration and supervision.
• Three (3) years of successful teaching experience; experience at the high school level is preferable.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Comprehensive knowledge of the current issues, principles, and practices in public middle/high school education and the ability to apply them to meet the needs of a school.
• Knowledge and effective skills in curriculum development, instructional practices, interpretation of test data, and budget development.
• Ability to assist with administering and managing the operation of a middle/high school.
• Ability to plan and supervise the work of others.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, staff, parents, and the public.
Working Conditions and Physical Requirements The individual must have the ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time; exhibit manual dexterity to dial a telephone and enter data into a computer; see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors, and on the telephone; speak clearly in audible tones in classrooms, indoors, outdoors, and on the telephone; lift up to 25 pounds; and bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk, and reach overhead. Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Duties are usually performed in a school or classroom environment. Duties may be occasionally performed on field trips away from the school. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Clearance Criminal History Background Check, Fingerprinting, Tuberculosis (TB) Assessment Supervision Exercised Assigned Staff Supervision Received Principal This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. The employee will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other related duties as assigned by the principal or appropriate administrator. Accomack County Public Schools reserves the right to update, revise, or change this job description and related duties at any time. Accomack County Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, military status, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy status, political affiliation, creed, marital status, age, or disability in its programs, activities, or employment practices as required by the Title VI, Title VII, Title IX, Section 504, and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations.