School Principal (25-26 School Year)

Martin County Schools has an opening for a Principal for the 2025-26 school year. (Start Date: July 1, 2025) Specific worksite/grade level (Elementary, Middle, or High) is to be determined. See the job description below for more information.

GRADE: State Salary Scale for Principals plus Local Supplement

FLSA: Exempt

REPORTS TO: Superintendent

SUPERVISES: All school personnel, directly or indirectly

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: 12 months

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s Degree in School Administration
• Must hold or be immediately eligible for North Carolina Principal Licensure
• Successful classroom teaching experience, required
• Additional experience in instructional leadership, preferred

PURPOSE: To serve as the chief administrator of a school in developing and implementing policies, programs, curriculum activities, and budgets in a manner that promotes the educational development of each student and the professional development of each staff member.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. This list is meant to be representative, not exhaustive. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee is required to follow Board of Education policies and procedures and to comply with the instructions and/or directives from his/her supervisor(s).

• Conceptualizes the mission of the district, broad goals of the school and plans accordingly to ensure that procedures and schedules are implemented to carry out the total school program.
• Ensures that the school program is compatible with the legal, financial, and organizational structure of the school system.
• Defines the responsibilities and accountability of staff members and develops plans for interpreting the school program to the community.
• Provides activities which facilitate the professional growth of the school staff and enhances the quality of the instructional program.
• Identifies the annual objectives for instructional, extracurricular, and athletic programs of the school.
• Ensures that the School Improvement Plan is followed and reviewed throughout the school year.
• Ensures that instructional objectives for a given subject and/or classroom are developed, along with detailed curriculum pacing guides; and involves the faculty and others in the development of specific curricular objectives to meet the needs of the school program.
• Provides opportunities for staff participation in the school program.
• Establishes, implements and evaluates procedures used to carry out the daily routine of the school.
• Evaluates student progress in the instructional program by means that include the maintaining of up-to-date student data.
• Supervises and appraises the performance of the school staff through observation formulas derived from the state of North Carolina.
• Maintains inter-school system communication and seeks assistance from central office staff to improve performance.
• Maintains good relationships with students, staff, and parents.
• Complies with established lines of authority and promotes school safety.
• Orients and assists new staff members and new students and provides opportunities for their input in the school program.
• Encourages the use of community resources, cooperates with the community in the use of school facilities, interprets the school program for the community, and maintains communication with community members.
• Manages, directs, and maintains records on the materials, supplies and equipment which are necessary to carry out the daily school routine.
• Involves the staff in determining priorities for instructional supplies.
• Organizes, oversees, and provides support to the various services, supplies, materials, and equipment provided to carry out the school program.
• Involves the community and makes use of community resources.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor.

PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE REQUIREMENTS: The major physical and cognitive requirements listed below are applicable to the Principal job classification within Martin
County Schools. Work in this classification is considered light physical work requiring the exertion of up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to move objects. Light Work usually also requires walking or standing to a significant degree.

• Physical Requirements: Must be physically able to operate a variety of equipment including computers, copiers, calculators, cellular phones, etc. Must be physically able to operate a motor vehicle. Must be able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift, carry, push, and pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
• Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.
• Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving instructions, assignments, or directions to subordinates or assistants.
• Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, charts, strategic plans, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, appraisals, charts, etc., using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style. Requires the ability to speak before groups of people with poise, voice control, and confidence.
• Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in Standard English.
• Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of algebra, descriptive statistics, statistical inference, and statistical theory.
• Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width, and shape.
• Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.
• Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.
• Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color.
• Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.
• Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear.) Must be able to communicate via telephone.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works indoors. The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal. The work is performed in the school.