Principal - La Vina Elementary (K-8)

MADERA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
CERTIFICATED MANAGEMENT JOB DESCRIPTION

PRINCIPAL


Overall Responsibilities
Provide instructional leadership and overall management of the administration of a school as prescribed by federal and state laws, district policies and regulations.

Specific Responsibilities
1.Perform all duties as ascribed by the Board of Trustees in accordance with legal mandates.
2.Provide instructional leadership to support each staff person’s work to increase student achievement including such activities as effective staff evaluation, testing, use of data, staff development, and special project compliance.
3.Provide managerial leadership to support each staff person’s work to provide a safe school including such activities as discipline code enforcement, report preparation, and use of data.
4.Provide managerial leadership to support each staff person’s work to promote a positive school climate including such activities as effective meeting management, parent involvement activities, community outreach, student activities, and use of data.
5. Participate in district-wide and community activities that support planning, public relationships, communication, team building, and others as appropriate.
6. Other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications
Specific knowledge of:
1. Management of human resources.
2. Laws, policies, and procedures applicable to the assignment.
3. External resources that can assist by providing information, suggestions and solutions to problems.

Specific Ability to:
1. Provide leadership that enables all staff to increase student achievement, provide a safe school, and promote a positive school climate.
2. Resolve conflicts in a manner that promotes goodwill toward the staff, the school and the district.
3. Contribute to the successful fulfillment of the District Mission.
4. Provide leadership setting a high standard of personal conducts that enable staff to work cooperatively with others.
5. Communicate clearly to diverse audiences: providing routine transfer of information, assisting others in need, resolving conflicts under stress, representing the District under stress, representing the District to the media, and other settings as required.
6. Learn and appropriately apply District policies and procedures and other regulations related to the position.
7. Conduct responsibilities of the position based on information and instructions provided in English.
8. Maintain appropriate confidentiality about the status of students, staff, school, and program activities.
9. Operate calculator, computer, and data entry terminals.
10. Learn and apply current technology to assigned duties.

Education:
1.Graduate study in educational administration.
2.Masters Degree preferred.

Experience:
1.Three years as a classroom or support teacher or counselor.
2.Successful administrative experience at no less that a coordinator, assistant/vice principal level.

License:
1.California credential authorizing service as an administrator.
2.Valid California Driver’s License.

EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION
Supervisor’s Title: Area Assistant Superintendent
Unit Membership:Management/Confidential/Supervisory

Current Salary Schedule Placement:

PHYSICAL DEMANDS IN THE WORK ENVIRONMENT

These physical characteristics are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job safely.

1. Mobility sufficient to move about, stand, and /or sit for extended periods, and access all locations in the work environment.
2. Manual skill to appropriately control and manipulate objects, tools, materials, and equipment used on the job, including a telephone and a computer.
3. Flexibility and strength to reach with hands and arms, bend and stoop.
4. Facility to hear and understand speech in normal room levels, and to hear and understand speech on the telephone.
5.Facility to speak in audible tones so that others my understand clearly in normal conversations and on the telephone.
6.Facility to see, read, and distinguish colors, with or without vision aids: computer screen, equipment used in the work environment, instructional materials, training materials, directions, rules, policies, calendars, agendas, manuals, and other printed matter.
7.Physical strength and agility to push, pull, squat, twist, turn, and lift and carry bulky objects of up to 25 pounds with or without assistant.
8.Mental acuity to perform the essential functions of this position in a safe, accurate, neat, and timely fashion and to make and evaluate the results of judgments and decisions.
9.Facility to drive all district vehicles.
10.High tolerance for continuing stressful situations.


Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions in the work environment. This environment may be expected to include: moderate noise level that is occasionally very noisy, frequent interruptions, and frequent movement from inside to outside with exposure to elements, exposure to toxic substances, stairs, children, and duty hours before sunrise or after sunset.

Salary : $121,908 - $136,758