Middle School Assistant Principal/Athletic Director- Haysville West Middle School

Job Description

Title: Assistant Principal/Athletic Director

Reports to: Building Principal

Supervises: Assigned staff members

Evaluation: Building Principal

Job summary:

Under direction, assist in the administration of a secondary school facility; plan, develop, organize, coordinate and supervise the student attendance, behavior management, counseling, and guidance, site safety and security, and extra-curricular activity programs; assist in the planning, development, and implementation of site, instructional and operational goals and objectives, and in the evaluation of the effectiveness of educational programs and personnel performance; perform other related functions as directed.

Qualifications:

Valid Kansas Administrative licensure appropriate to specific level.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Supervise the planning, organization, and conduct of a comprehensive student body activity/club program, including co-curricular activities, budget planning, fundraising, and expenditure control, scheduling of assemblies and field trips and programs, and student government functions and activities.
• Schedules and maintains contracts with photography services (picture days, graduation, dances, athletic and activity organizations), graduation supplies, class ring services, disc jockey services and facility rentals for school dances.
• Supervises organization sponsors in fundraising, and management or each organization’s activities funds.
• Fosters good school-community relations by keeping the community aware of and responsive to the activity program.
• Review, evaluate, and enforce student attendance processes and procedures, and as needed, recommend revisions to the process.
• Supervises the reporting, monitoring, and enforcement of attendance policies (building and state).
• Proposes schedules of extracurricular activities during the school year and supervises the scheduling of such activities during the advisory/seminar period.
• Maintains master schedule of facility use for all school and community events, coordinates that sue with the building calendar and community calendar and enforces district facility use policy.
• Ensures that the student planner includes the customized calendar of school events.
• Monitor and address student discipline, safety, and welfare issues by holding meetings with students, parents, investigating incidents, documenting findings, contacting proper authorities and conforming to legal requirements and regulations.
• Work with public safety and youth service agencies in resolving student management, attendance, and welfare problems.
• Assists in maintaining discipline throughout the student body and deals with special cases as necessary.
• Review, and evaluate instructional and non-instructional personnel performance.
• Conduct informal observations of all faculty at all times during the year and school day.
• Assist in the planning, development, organization, coordination and supervision of instructional programs and activities including those that occur in advisory/seminar.
• Advise, counsel, and assist instructional, and support personnel in problem solving activities pertaining to student behavior management.
• Assists in the development of all building procedures and policies.
• Assists in working with department heads and faculty in compiling annual budget reports.
• Assists in the enforcement of national, regional, state, conference, district, and building policies.
• Supervise employees including assigning and directing work, interviewing, and hiring, evaluating performance, disciplining, resolving problems.
• Attend instructional development meetings, conferences, and trainings.
• Attend, prepare for, and lead parent meetings and conferences to address student related issues.
• Attend, organize, and assist in directing various in-building committee meetings including department chair meetings, staff meetings, activities and coaches meetings, academic issue meetings, academic collaborative team meetings, etc.
• Attend and assist with administrative team meetings at building and district level.
• Serves with parent, faculty, and student groups as requested in advancing educational and related activities and objectives.
• Act as a motivational leader in activity program and educational leadership etc.
• Contracts for customized student planner and ensures that deadlines for production and delivery are met.
• Assists in safety inspections and safety drill practice activities.
• Assists in implementation of crisis plan if and when the unforeseen occurs.
• Assists in planning, and implementing supervision of buildings, activities, and students.
• Assists in the supervision of student activities and athletic activities before, during, after school and in evenings and on weekends.
• Assists in the daily supervision of the cafeteria before school and during the lunch period.
• Assists in supervision of custodians in the building to ensure continuous feedback on daily maintenance issues.
• Perform needs assessments and other research and development functions and activities-including the drug/alcohol/tobacco risk surveys, graduate follow up surveys, staff proficiency surveys, etc.
• Plan, schedule, and coordinate implementation of inservice trainings.
• Assist in development and implementation of professional growth activities and the means to document individual professional goals and growth.
• Work with district and building leadership to organize, design, implement and evaluate standards for educators and teacher performance.
• Demonstrates effective human relations and communication skills.
• Complies with KSHSAA rules, regulations, and communication skills.
• Other duties as assigned.

Physical Requirements/Environmental Conditions:

Physical and emotional ability and dexterity to perform required work and move about as needed in a fast-pace, high-intensive work environment.