Foster Elementary Principal

2025-2026 School Year

218 Day Contract

The Sweet Home School District is looking for its next elementary principal to lead our students and staff. 

Sweet Home, Oregon is a wonderful place to work, live, and learn. Sweet Home is the gateway to the Cascades serving as the base for numerous nearby recreational opportunities: boating and water-skiing at Foster Lake and Green Peter Reservoir, salmon and steelhead fishing on the South Santiam River, kayaking at nearby Quartzville Creek, Nordic and alpine skiing at Hoodoo, mountain biking, camping, and rock-climbing.  Numerous nearby hiking trails include McDowell Creek Falls, Horse Rock Ridge, Soda Creek Falls, and Iron Mountain.  Sweet Home is also conveniently located within an hour of Corvallis, Eugene, and Salem and within two hours of Bend, Portland, and the Oregon Coast.  

We are looking for a leader who is committed to Sweet Home and will become a part of the community and its extraordinary environment.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:  Other duties may be assigned

• Must hold, or be eligible for, an Oregon Administrative License with appropriate level endorsement.  Successful administrative experience preferred.
• Maintains positive relations and works cooperatively with staff, students, parents, parent groups, school volunteers, outside agencies, and the community.
• Implements, adheres to and enforces district, state, and federal laws, policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Uses necessary leadership, supervisory and administrative skills so as to promote the educational development of each student to perform at the highest level.
• Uses independent judgment and decision-making is required in matters not having established rules, regulations or policies.
• Knowledge of, and successful experience with, instructional improvement and technology.
• Knowledge of, and successful experience with, PBIS.
• Knowledge of, and successful experience with, PLC's.
• Knowledge of, and successful experience with, RTI and other interventions used for improving student learning.
• Maintains harmony among staff and resolves disputes.
• Administers the school instructional program in all its facets.
• Supervises the ongoing improvement of the school curriculum
• Supervises the school staff, providing assistance and making evaluations as required by state and district policy.
• Evaluates performance and effectiveness of programs.
• Interprets the school’s program to the community and enlists the participation of the community in school life.
• Assists in the recruiting, screening, training, hiring and assigning of school staff.
• Supervises Practical Academic Life Skills (PALS) program within the elementary schools.
• Assigns teachers to classrooms and students to classes.
• Monitors the full range of co-curricular activities.
• Is responsible for the school wide student management.
• Is responsible for the attendance, conduct, health and safety of students.
• Prescribes and implements rules and regulations concerning the use and maintenance of buildings and grounds.
• Devises standards and procedures for the technical operation of the building including fire drills, facility use, schedules, key controls, etc.
• Assists in the organization and development of professional growth programs for all staff.
• Compiles and formulates the building budget and monitors the adopted expenditures of funds.
• Keeps the superintendent informed of school activities and problems.
• Prepares or supervises the preparation of reports, records, lists, and all other paper work required or appropriate to the school’s administration.
• Attends and participates in district administrative meetings and board meetings as required.
• Attends special events held to recognize student achievement and attends school sponsored activities or functions.
• Conducts regularly scheduled staff meetings to keep all staff members informed about building and district level activities and programs.
• Keeps abreast of changes and developments in the profession by attending professional meetings, reading professional publications, and discussing problems of mutual interest with others in the field.
• Ensures that Student Activity Funds are properly accounted for.
• Assures that substitute employees are obtained when staff members are absent.
• Develops required District handbook(s).

Salary : $112,578 - $129,341