Program Principal

Hamilton County Schools•Chattanooga, TN

22h•Onsite

About The Position

Hamilton County Schools, located in Chattanooga, TN, is working to ensure that all students thrive and experience a future without limits. We are committed to excellence for every student and are seeking outstanding leaders, teachers, support staff, and district employees who desire to make a difference in the lives of students. With nearly 75 schools, we are confident that you can find your place in Hamilton County. Hamilton County Schools is seeking a secondary coordinator lead the Construction Career Center to prepare future-ready students. Reporting to the Learning Community Director, the coordinator will set a bold and innovative vision for school culture, career and technical educational opportunities, and academics. The coordinator must ensure that students are graduating, ready for college or the workforce, and build positive relationships with all stakeholders.

Requirements

Master’s degree and current valid Tennessee administrative license required.
Successful administrative experience required.
Basic general knowledge of construction skills
Demonstrated record of excellence with strong community and organizational relationships
Experience using data to lead others toward improvement of student outcomes
Understand aspects of Career and Technical Education
Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills to deal effectively with students, educators, parents, and community members.
Demonstrate excellent planning, organizational, problem-solving, decision-making, and time management skills.

Responsibilities

Recruit and retain high performing teachers and staff
Develop, coach, and manage all staff at the Construction Career Center and Work Based Learning Sites (Legacybox, Gestamp)
Create a culture of excellence
Demonstrate effective leadership by establishing a collaborative environment
Facilitate group understanding and communication of diversity
Engage parents and community partners to provide support to meet student needs
Provide students career, work-based experiences, and internships
Cultivate and maintain construction business relationships to develop and implement co-constructed business partnership project-based learning experiences for students
Design and implement project-based learning experiences for students that focus on technical and essential skill development
Knowledge of credentials, rules, and policies that affect CTE
Facilitate new and best practices in the area of instructional delivery and schedule students for CTE pathways
Evaluate curriculum, instruction, and assess student performance
Lead professional learning
Regular collaboration with the Association of General Contractors in evaluation, refinement and implementation of Construction Career Center programming
Regular collaboration with Work Based Learning Companies (Legacybox, Gestamp) in evaluation, refinement and implementation of WBL programming
Design, implement and interpret data systems that support instruction and assessment programs
Work with feeder pattern principals to establish successful transitions for students
Develop and implement a school-wide improvement plan
Collaboratively creates and communicates a clear, compelling vision of high academic achievement and growth
Establish a clear focus and inspire others by gaining buy-in and commitment
Serve as a change agent by actively challenging the status quo to eliminate opportunity and achievement gaps
Inspire and lead new and challenging innovations for high achievement and growth
Build and maintain high expectations for continuous student growth and academic achievement with supportive accountability systems
Sustain a data-driven vision by setting challenging goals with appropriate, relevant milestones for progress monitoring
Conduct classroom observations, identify effective instructional planning and delivery instruction and provide actionable feedback that results in improved student learning
Build capacity of educators to provide all students a rigorous standards-based curriculum that is culturally responsive
Ensure students master grade-level standards by aligning curriculum, instruction and assessments
Build systems for professional learning communities and high quality common planning
Provides clear expectations for staff performance and communicates success and needed improvements regularly.
Create structures that systematically gather input and empower teachers as decision makers
Implement and monitor a rigorous evaluation system and use educator evaluation data to inform, assess, and adjust differentiated professional learning plans, performance improvement plans and goals
Maintain a robust talent management system that displays effective recruitment, interview, and selection skills that lead to quality hiring decisions
Develop structures for mentoring used to induct, support, retain, grow and extend effective educators based on evidence of student and educator outcomes
Empower teachers to use their collective strengths, skills and experiences to own and lead teams, trainings and innovative initiatives
Include a diverse set of educators and stakeholders in school improvement planning and decision-making
Develop structures to actively involve families in the education of their children targeting academically focused engagement
Strategically utilize, align, and measure community resources and partners to equitably support the school’s mission, vision, and goals
Ensure that the school community communicates regularly with families regarding student progress and needs
Partner with community allies to provide whole-child supports
Foster a safe, orderly, culturally responsive and equitable learning environment for all stakeholders
Communicate effectively with all stakeholders
Resolve conflict positively and directly
Embrace diverse points of view and foster an environment that is comfortable with dissent
Develop structures to actively engage student, staff, parent, and community voice with a keen awareness to the voices that are often overlooked
Reflect regularly, accurately assesses personal strengths and growth areas, and seek feedback and professional development to improve
Collaboratively create and monitor school action plans with an intentional focus on prioritizing marginalized students and subgroups
Collect, analyze, and uses multiple forms of data to make decisions
Identify problems, analyze root causes and develop effective resolution strategies
Systematically monitor and adjust progress toward established goals and facilitate procedures and practices leading to improvement by utilizing a continuous improvement process
Demonstrate the ability to prioritize appropriately
Demonstrate the flexibility to adapt leadership behavior to the needs of the current situation
Demonstrate an awareness implicit bias and the ways that bias hold systems of marginalization in place
Establish, communicate, and enforce a set of standard operating procedures and routines that ensure school safety and are aligned with district, state and federal policy
Perform all budgetary responsibilities with accuracy, transparency, and in alignment with school action plans
Allocate resources equitably
Articulate the value of diversity and equity within a purposeful community
Communicate and operate from strong ideals and beliefs about schooling grounded in ethical decision-making
Exhibit a commitment to equity and create a sense of urgency to close achievement gaps and prepare all students for college, career, and life
Embed cultural competence in all aspects of school instruction and practices
Leverage educator strengths to engage all students in meaningful, culturally aware, and relevant learning opportunities