Elementary Principal
Elementary Principal
(Eisenhower Elementary) for the 2023/24 School Year
(Elementary School PreK-5th Grade)
Job Description
Purpose: The 21st-century principal provides leadership, management, and supervisory skills that promote learning for each student. They lead others and stand for the ideas and values that help develop lifelong learners and future leaders within their District. The principal works closely with students, parents/guardians, building, and district staff to accomplish these tasks. The principal also has a set of beliefs and a skill set that guides the school in day-to-day operations to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of all students, staff, and families. The principals also orchestrate a complex, dynamic, and collaborative learning community every day where student and student learning are always the central focus.
Responsible to: Superintendent
Supervises: All Building Certified and Classified Staff
FLSA Status: Exempt, Salaried
Payment rate: $85,000 - $95,000 commensurate with experience and education
Qualifications:
- A valid building leadership/building administrator license issued by the Kansas Department of Education includes grades PK-5
- Master's degree or high in education leadership or a related field
- Three or more years of successful experience in a building or district administrative position within the field of education
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both in oral and written forms
- Has a high level of professionalism and decorum
- Highly organized and detail orientated
- A valid driver's license
- Health and Inoculation Certificate on file in the District Office (after an employment offer is made)
- The desire to continue career improvement by enhancing skills and job performance
Essential Functions:
- Works with staff, students, and parents on strategies that continuously improve student achievement and instruction
- Provide professional leadership for organizing, administering, supervising, and evaluating a creative school program
- Establish an optimal learning environment within the school
- Ensure all school programs and activities conform to District guidelines
- Establish a positive learning environment and respond to the individual needs of students
- Communicate, work effectively and constructively with the school district and community members
- Reacts positively to change and frequent interruptions productively and simply, meeting deadlines as assigned
- Work to implement the vision, mission, and goals of the District
- Utilize current technologies to support leadership and management functions
- Effectively supervise the instructional performance of staff through frequent and ongoing observations and walk-throughs
- Aligns resources to improve teaching and learning for all students
- Supervise, direct, motivate, and evaluate employees' job performance
- Model commitment and dedication to work
- Work independently, without supervision, and complete work in an efficient manner
- Collect, review, and process building data to decide on improving instruction within the building
- Makes decisions considering alternatives, consequences, and applicable available data/information
- Supervises the preparation of accurate budgets and effectively monitors expenditures each school year
- Collaborates with Superintendent and Human Resources Department on staffing needs of the building
- Act following district policies as well as state and federal regulations
- Regular attendance at work
General Responsibilities:
- Works with and engages staff in a shared vision for effective teaching and learning by implementing the District's core curriculum resources
- Proactively engages families in support of child's learning and school learning goals
- Utilizes meaningful feedback from students, staff, families, and the community to evaluate school programs and procedures
- Monitor and assist in developing an Individual Education Plan for all identified students
- Monitor and assist in the development of 504 plans for identified students
- Works collaboratively with the Director of Student Services with student discipline and student services
- Treats all people fairly and with dignity and respect. Protects the rights and confidentiality of students and staff
- Provide effective behavior management and guidance to students and staff
- Keep current on changes and developments in the profession by attending professional meetings, reading professional journals and other publications, and discussing concerns of mutual interest with others in the field
- Develop, plan, organize and present effective building professional development for staff
- Conduct planned, meaningful and effective meetings, including but not limited to staff development, staff orientations, student orientations, parent meetings, IEP Team meetings, BLT Meetings, SIT Meetings, etc.
- Direct and manage extracurricular activities scheduled during the day and/or in the evening
- Builds a culture of high aspirations and achievement for every student and staff member
- Implement and follow all federal, state, and District policies and procedures
- Prepares and submits all required federal, state, and District reports in a timely and accurate manner
- Other duties as assigned by District administration
Physical Requirements/Environmental Conditions:
- Ability to sit and stand for extended periods
- Ability to enter data into a computer, to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids
- Ability to hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors, and on the telephone
- Ability to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in standard classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone
- Ability to work in various weather and temperature conditions, from freezing to high heat
- Physical ability to lift up to 25 pounds to shoulder height and 50 pounds to waist height
- Ability to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk and reach overhead
Term of Employment: 220-Day Contract
Evaluation: Performance effectiveness will be evaluated following Kansas Statutes and Board of Education Policy provisions.
Ft Leavenworth USD 207 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training or promoting on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, disability, veterans status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected status under local, state or federal law.