Principal - Decatur Middle

SUMMARY:

• Directs administration of institution by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides effective leadership in planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating the instructional program.

• Interprets and enforces federal and state laws and state and local board policies.

• Assists in the recruiting, screening, selecting, and assigning of the school’s certified and non-certified staff.

• Assists in securing, maintaining, and managing material resources.

• Prepares and administers the school budget and supervises school finances.

• Assumes responsibility for scheduling.

• Ensures students receive appropriate placement and services.

• Plans and accomplishes personal professional growth.

• Demonstrates proficiency in written and oral communication.

• Provides professional opportunities for staff.

• Communicates and clarifies the school’s mission to students, staff and community.

• Provides a safe, orderly environment that facilitates teaching and learning.

• Provides a climate of high expectations for staff and students.

• Supervises, observes and evaluates teachers and staff.

• Coordinates extra-curricular activities.

• Attends professional meetings, writes reports, and maintains records.

• Demonstrates professional ethics.

  
  

NON-ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• Master’s degree (M.A.)

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret documents. Ability to respond effectively to inquiries or complaints. Ability to write, speak and present information effectively.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.

REASONING ABILITY:

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret a variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with abstract and concrete variables.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, & REGISTRATIONS:

• Alabama Class A Certificate with appropriate endorsement in School Administration.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to talk and hear. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and sit. The employee is occasionally required to bend, stoop, squat, crouch, reach above the shoulder.

• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move, push and pull up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

SALARY:

• Salary schedules are found on the main Decatur City Schools website, available here. (Please right-click and select Open in New Tab to view our salary schedules.)

• Listed below are items that may be necessary to complete your employment process in order to compute your annual salary. It is your responsibility to provide us with this requested information in order to receive your accurate salary.

• We need verification of previous public school teaching experience. Use the following information when requesting verification of experience from your past employment at other boards of education:

  • Within the state of Alabama, experience must be verified on Supplement EXP

  • Outside the state of Alabama, we must have a letter (on school district letterhead) or public school district form showing beginning and ending dates stating your years of service and position held while employed

  • Credit is awarded for public school experience only, private, parochial, or similar experience will not be accepted

  • Experience must be full time at least 50%-100% of the academic year

  • Administrative credit will be awarded only for experience in the same position, i.e., principal for principal position as stated in the salary schedule

  • Transfer Sick Leave: If you have sick leave from another state school system or from another state of Alabama agency, you must have a Sick Leave Transfer form sent from your previous employer to our Human Resources department

• The Decatur City Board of Education awards a salary based on the highest degree earned, even if the degree is outside education. The degree must be verified on an official transcript & recognized by the Alabama State Department of Education.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by an employee(s) within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of an employee(s) for this job.

The Decatur City School System does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, disability, sex, religion, national origin, or age in its programs, activities, or employment and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The Title IX Coordinator for Decatur City Schools is responsible for handling inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies. The Title IX Coordinator can be reached by calling the Decatur City Board of Education at (256) 552-3000.