PRINCIPAL Applicant Pool (2026-2027)

Craven County Schools•New Bern, NC

10h

About The Position

Under the direction of the Superintendent, the Principal serves as the chief administrator of a school in developing, implementing, monitoring and continuously improving classroom learning systems to support the school improvement system. The school principal aligns policies, programs, curriculum activities, and budgets to the school improvement plan to promote the educational development of each student and the professional development of each staff member. The school principal serves as the lead learner in the school monitoring the instructional program and exhibiting the standards for North Carolina school executives.

Requirements

Master’s degree in School Administration
Successful assistant principal experience
Five (5) years supervisory/administrative experience required (Experience working with superintendents, executive cabinet leaders, school board members, government agencies or boards, non-profits, or community representatives strongly preferred)
Experience increasing student achievement and growing schools
Valid North Carolina Professional Educators Certificate in: 0012: School Administrator: Principal
An area of teaching licensure
Ability to develop and use data systems and other sources of information to identify strengths and areas of improvement for students and
Has read and understands the policies of the Craven County Board of Education .
Ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, articles, proposals, and contracts
Ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, evaluations, policies, using prescribed formants.
Ability to research program documents and narrative materials, and to compile reports
Ability to review documents for accuracy of information, grammar, style, punctuation
Ability to maintain complex schedules, records
Ability to maintain confidential
Ability to develop and modify work procedures, methods, and processes to improve student outcomes and effectiveness
Ability to type accurately at a moderate rate
Ability to communicate effectively orally
Ability to exercise considerable tact and courtesy in frequent contact with school officials, elected officials, and the general public
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitated by work
Ability to build cooperative relationships with community groups/members
Ability to maintain communication with the community
Ability to engage with people beyond giving and receiving instructions.
Adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency

Nice To Haves

Five (5) years of successful teaching experience (preferred)

Responsibilities

Conceptualizes the broad goals of the school and plans accordingly to ensure that procedures and schedules are implemented to carry out the total school program.
Ensures that the school program is compatible with the legal, financial and organizational structure of the school system.
Defines the responsibilities and accountability of staff members and develops plans for interpreting the school program to the community.
Models and encourages an inclusive and respectful environment.
Ensures equitable access to resources and opportunities for all students.
Provides activities which facilitate the professional growth of the school staff and enhance the quality of the instructional program.
Identifies the annual objectives for the instructional, extracurricular, and athletic programs of the school.
Ensures that instructional objectives for a given subject and/or classroom are developed and involves the faculty and others in the development of specific curricular objectives to meet the needs of the school program.
Provides opportunities for staff participation in the school program.
Evaluates student progress in the instructional program by means that include the maintaining of up-to-date student data.
Supervises and evaluates the performance of the school staff.
Maintains inter-school system communication and seeks assistance from central office staff to improve performance.
Maintains good relationships with students, staff, and parents.
Complies with established lines of authority.
Orients and assists new staff and new students and provides opportunities for their input in the school program.
Encourages the use of community resources, cooperates with the community in the use of school facilities, interprets the school program for the community, and maintains communication with community members.
Manages, directs, and maintains records on the materials, supplies and equipment which are necessary to carry out the daily school routine.
Involves the staff in determining priorities for instructional purposes.
Organizes, oversees, and provides support to the various services, supplies, materials, and equipment provided to carry out the school program.
Makes use of community resources.
Strategically maintains and monitors track records of continuously improving outcomes for students.
Performs other related duties, as assigned.
Leads the continuous improvement of learning through the implementation, monitoring, and improvement of classroom learning systems.
Leads school improvement planning through the systematic implementation, monitoring, and continuous improvement of school goals, measures, and key strategies .
Implements, monitors and continuously improves the direction and spirit of the North Carolina General Statutes related to school improvement planning .
Implements the goals, measures, and key strategies of the Craven County School System through the school improvement
Aligns school resources (financial, human, and material) to the goals, measures, and key strategies of the school improvement plan and district strategic
Aligns professional learning communities to the goals, measures, and key strategies for learning
Implements, monitors, and continuously improves the state’s and Craven County Schools’ evaluation system for educators, administrators, and support staff.
Creates an aligned management system that enables the school to focus systematically and systemically on performance excellence and continuous improvement.
Implements, monitors, and continuously improves processes to recruit, select and retain high quality, qualified, and diverse workforce to support the school goals for students
Provides new employee orientation
Principals create conditions that result in strategically re- imaging the school’s vision, mission, and goals in the 21st
Principals set high standards for the professional practice of 21st century instruction and assessment that result in a no-nonsense, accountable
Principals understand and act on the understanding of the important role a school’s culture contributes to the exemplary performance of the
Principals ensure that the school is a professional learning community.
Principals ensure that processes and systems are in place that result in the recruitment, induction, support, evaluation, development, and retention of a high-performing
Principals ensure that the school has processes and systems in place for budgeting, staffing, problem solving, communicating expectations and scheduling that result in organizing the work routines in the building.
Principals design structures and processes that result in community engagement, support, and ownership.
The principal builds systems and relationships that utilize the staff’s diversity, encourage constructive ideological conflict in order to leverage staff expertise, power, and influence to realize the school’s vision for success.
Implements the policies of the Craven County Board of Education