Regional Superintendent

Minimum Qualifications: Education: Master’s Degree in Education; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Principal Certificate required. Doctorate in Education and a Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Superintendent’s Letter of Eligibility are preferred. MINIMUM TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE: Master’s degree in Education Administration, 3 to 5 years of experience as a classroom teacher and 6 to 9 years of experience as a school principal, or any equivalent combination of training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Must possess a teaching certificate from the State of Pennsylvania. Must possess a valid Pennsylvania driver's license.

Knowledge/Skills: Demonstrated skills in providing educational and spiritual leadership for rural, suburban, and urban Catholic elementary schools. Proven ability to successfully manage and provide administration and coordination of multiple school systems, which lead to excellence in education and Catholic values. 

● Summary of Job: Performs a variety of supervisory and administrative tasks in directing the operation of assigned schools in the Diocese of Pittsburgh school system. Employee should exhibit knowledge and skills in effective leadership, strategic planning, change leadership, management, human resource development, and customer service. Further, the employee should exhibit dispositions that reflect a valuing of diversity and equity. 

Employee is responsible for implementing the Diocese’s mission in the assigned region and improving achievement within the region. 

Employee is accountable for connecting assigned schools with the communities of the assigned region by participating in community organizations, community functions, and extra-curricular activities. 

Employee will be expected to be highly visible in the communities of the assigned region. 

Employee creates operational processes, plans, and coordinates programs for schools, conducts observations of the schools, assists and advises principals, and evaluates the principals annually. 

Employee manages issues of a non-academic nature, including building maintenance, finance, human relations, transportation, parent communication, food service, and any other management issues. 

Employee is also responsible for handling community concerns regarding schools and working with community agencies to jointly address those concerns. Reports to the Superintendent or his/her designee.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

● Supervises and evaluates principals; serves as liaison between principals and the Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent; works with principals to resolve school-based concerns and problems; assists principals and teachers in striving for maximum student achievement.

● Maintains an aligned PreK-8 instructional program that addresses state, local, and federal requirements to ensure academic achievement.

● Ensures alignment of instructional resources with the system’s priorities and strategic plan.

● Monitors the implementation of safe school programs and resolves situations between schools, parents, and the community. Publicly responds to concerns of the Community regarding schools; coordinates with community agencies to address the problems and needs of schools and their students.

● Monitors school progress through feedback from students, teachers, principals, directors, superintendents, the Regional Board, business leaders, consultants, and parents. Receives suggestions, advice and general feedback on the operations of schools; helps ensure an open line of communication across the school system hierarchy, bringing insight from all levels to incorporate in policy and decision making.

● Conducts on-site observations of assigned schools in the system; provides feedback, support, and suggestions to principals; conducts and documents formal evaluations of principals.

● Assists principals with decision making and problem solving; plans and develops programs to be implemented across assigned schools; assists in the implementation of regional initiatives; monitors the programs implemented; develops policies, standards, and a vision for assigned schools.

● Attends meetings and participates in diocesan-related activities at the request of the Superintendent; provides input into long-range improvement plans; monitors the development and implementation of school improvement plans; stays abreast of directions coming from the Superintendent and initiates the implementation of those directions in the schools.

● Supervises and conducts personnel administration duties for principals, including evaluating, assigning special duties, monitoring attendance and travel reports, and granting leave. Recommends hiring and dismissal to the Superintendent.

● Assists principals in the development of appropriate professional development programs. With HR support, coordinates the staffing of all positions and ensures support for inducting and retaining personnel.

● Provides assistance and support to building principals in evaluating and supporting staff. ● Supervises the work of school principals, ensuring adherence to established policies, procedures, and standards; advises and assists subordinates, as necessary, resolving problems as situations arise. Participates in budget decisions at the regional level; oversees expenditures for assigned schools.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS OR STANDARDS REQUIRED TO PERFORM ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

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, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Light Work usually requires walking or standing to a significant degree.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from apparent 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 logical or scientific thinking principles 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, and 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 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 rapidly and accurately coordinate hands and eyes in office equipment.

Manual Dexterity: Requires handling various 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 emergencies.

Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas through spoken words. Hearing: perceiving the nature of sounds by ear.) Must be able to communicate via telephone.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

Considerable knowledge of the Diocesan and Regional Board policies, procedures, and standards regarding elementary education.

Considerable knowledge of the organization and communication channels of the school system.

Considerable knowledge of the ethical guidelines applicable to the position as outlined by professional organizations and/or federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations.

Considerable knowledge of the current literature, trends, and developments in educational administration.

Considerable knowledge of social factors influencing teenagers.

Considerable knowledge of conflict resolution techniques.

Considerable knowledge of the principles of supervision, organization, and administration.

Skill in counseling and developing staff.

Ability to develop long-range plans for PreK-8. Ability to collect and analyze statistical data.

Ability to use common office machines and popular computer-driven word processing, spreadsheet, and file maintenance programs.

Ability to maintain complete and accurate records and statistics and to develop meaningful reports from them.

Ability to plan and evaluate strategies for improving instruction.

Ability to develop meaningful annual budgets.

Ability to effectively express ideas orally and in writing.

Ability to make oral presentations before large groups of people.

Ability to exercise considerable tact and courtesy in frequent contact with the public.

Interested candidates should submit an application packet to Matt Petnuch, North Hills Regional Catholic Elementary Schools @ mpetnuch@nhrces.org by April 11, 2025.