Assistant Principal 11 month

Seminole County Public Schools•Altamonte Springs, FL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Assistant Principal supports the Principal in providing the school-based leadership required to sustain a focus on improving instruction for the purpose of increasing the achievement of all students in a safe learning environment while ensuring the orderly and efficient operation of the school. The Assistant Principal engages in various actions to support the Principal in accomplishing the mission, vision, and goals of the School Board of Seminole County Public Schools. This includes demonstrating personal and professional behaviors consistent with quality practices in education and as a community leader, achieving results on the school's student learning goals, and demonstrating that student learning is the top priority through leadership actions that build and support a learning organization focused on student success. The role involves collaboratively developing and implementing an instructional framework, recruiting, retaining, and developing an effective and diverse faculty and staff, and structuring and monitoring a school learning environment that improves learning for all of Florida's diverse student population. Additionally, the Assistant Principal employs and monitors a decision-making process based on vision, mission, and improvement priorities using facts and data, actively cultivates, supports, and develops other leaders within the organization, and manages the organization, operations, and facilities in ways that maximize the use of resources to promote a safe, efficient, legal, and effective learning environment. The position also requires practicing two-way communications and using appropriate oral, written, and electronic communication and collaboration skills to accomplish school and system goals by building and maintaining relationships with students, faculty, parents, and community. The Assistant Principal also performs other duties as assigned by the Principal.

Requirements

Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from an accredited institution.
Valid Florida School Principal or Educational Leadership Certification (Level I or II).
Minimum of three (3) years of successful teaching experience.
Meet all other qualifications for employment required by the School Board of Seminole County, Florida.
Knowledge of applicable laws, rules, policies and procedures.
Knowledge of current educational trends and research.
Knowledge of personnel evaluation protocol and other personnel procedures.
Skill in problem solving, human interaction, and conflict management.
Skill in personnel management and supervision techniques.
Ability to cooperatively work with personnel at all levels of the organization.
Ability to plan, organize and manage multiple tasks and competing priorities.
Ability to employ the continuous improvement process for problem solving and managing change.
Ability to analyze, interpret, and use data in decision-making.
Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
Ability to supervise and support leadership development in others at all levels of the organization.
Ability to tolerate high levels of stress.
Ability to maintain confidentiality.

Responsibilities

Demonstrates personal and professional behaviors consistent with quality practices in education and as a community leader.
Achieves results on the school's student learning goals.
Demonstrates that student learning is the top priority through leadership actions that build and support a learning organization focused on student success.
Collaboratively develops and implements an instructional framework that aligns curriculum with state standards, effective instructional practices, student learning needs and assessments.
Recruits, retains and develops an effective and diverse faculty and staff.
Structures and monitors a school learning environment that improves learning for all of Florida's diverse student population.
Employs and monitors a decision-making process that is based on vision, mission and improvement priorities using facts and data.
Actively cultivates, supports, and develops other leaders within the organization.
Manages the organization, operations, and facilities in ways that maximize the use of resources to promote a safe, efficient, legal, and effective learning environment.
Practices two-way communications and using appropriate oral, written, and electronic communication and collaboration skills to accomplish school and system goals via building and maintaining relationships with students, faculty, parents, and community.
Performs other duties as assigned by the Principal pursuant to the rules and regulations of the School Board and State Board of Education.