Dean of Students - High School

Franklin Academy Foundation•Pembroke Pines, FL

23h•$57,188 - $57,188•Onsite

About The Position

The Dean of Students - High School is an 11-month, full-time position responsible for providing behavioral and disciplinary support to the administrative team, teaching staff, and student body. The goal is to reduce student infractions and increase positive behavior and habits across the school campus. This role involves training, coaching, modeling, and consultation with all stakeholders, including families. The Dean will also provide professional development sessions on classroom management, positive behavior support, and the school-wide discipline process, as well as ongoing support to individual teachers and teams. A nurturing and supportive learning environment that encourages student responsibility and incorporates positive management and behavioral strategies is key. The Dean will also provide resources and guidance to parents through parent academy sessions and other events, and will have additional duties such as sibling link, cafeteria duty, arrival/dismissal duty, and hallway duty.

Requirements

Demonstrates excellent communication skills including oral presentations, written skills, active listening skills.
Demonstrates enthusiasm and commitment toward the job and the mission of the school.
Establishes excellent interpersonal skills between all constituents: being courteous, professional and, helpful; demonstrates high level of interpersonal skills to handle sensitive and confidential situations.
Ability to organize, prioritize and manage multiple priorities.
Ability to be at work consistently, to arrive on time, to follow instructions, to respond to management direction and to solicit feedback to improve performance.
Problem analysis and problem resolution at both a strategic and functional level.
Seeks ways to improve and promote quality and demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness.
Strives to research, evaluate and implement best practices.
Strong customer orientation.
Strong track record for analyzing complex problems/issues, identifying patterns and recommending creative solutions.
Proactive and takes initiative.
Thinks creatively.
Drives projects to completion.
Insists on highest level of quality.
Bachelor's degree (BA) from an accredited college or university or equivalent.
Possession of valid teaching, counseling or social work certification (as appropriate).
Minimum of one (1) to three (3) years successful teaching, counseling or social work experience (may include Student Teaching Internship experience).
Successful results of criminal and employment background check and drug testing.
Adherence to the requirements of the Code of Ethics for the Education Profession.

Responsibilities

Provides behavioral and disciplinary support to the administrative team, teaching staff and student body with the explicit purpose of reducing the number of student infractions and increasing positive behavior and habits across the school campus.
Provides training, coaching, modeling and consultation to all stakeholders including families.
Provide an initial professional development session during pre-service week for all faculty on classroom management, positive behavior instructional support and the school wide discipline process.
Provides specific professional development to individual teachers and teams as needed to support positive behavioral practices including classroom management.
Provides ongoing professional development as needed and directed by the principal.
Provides a nurturing and supportive learning environment that encourages student responsibility and incorporates positive management and behavioral strategies.
Provides resources/guidance to parents to help them better support their scholars through parent academy sessions (including evenings) and other parent events as directed by the principal.
Additional duties including but not limited to sibling link, cafeteria duty, arrival/dismissal duty and hallway duty.