Principal - Wacousta Elementary

Position:  Principal

Summary: Serves as the leader of the school who is responsible for student achievement, school management, staff excellence, and school budget.

Reports to: Superintendent

Salary & Benefits:  Salary will commensurate with experience and qualifications and in compliance with the Grand Ledge Administrators’ Educational Association’s Master Agreement.  A competitive benefit package is also available. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Note:  These duties and responsibilities are judged to be "essential functions" in terms of the Americans With Disabilities Act or ADA.  To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  The statements below are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by a person in this position.  They are not constructed as an exhaustive list of all duties that may be performed by such a person.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develops and administers school programs consistent with school district goals and objectives.
• Provides leadership and direction to staff with regard to the ongoing evaluation and improvement of educational programs, including curricular and extracurricular activities.
• Promotes a school environment that is safe and conducive to individualized instruction, cooperative curriculum development, and student learning.
• Ensures that Board policies, procedures, and negotiated contracts are implemented, enforced, and followed at the school.
• Continues to acquire professional knowledge and learn of current developments in the educational field by attending seminars, workshops or professional meetings, or by conducting research.
• Encourages staff to continue to grow professionally and to experiment with new approaches or strategies to teaching.
• Creates a building schedule for all staffing and specials classes needs based upon enrollment.
• Ensures that student conduct conforms with the school’s standards and school district policies.
• Organizes and manages the budget for the building.
• Supervises and evaluates dean of students, teaching staff, and building support.
• Knowledge and/or experience with Title funding and other at-risk funds.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to communicate well with school personnel and parents while complying with the confidentiality requirements in local, state, and federal policies.
• Demonstrated advanced skills with technology tools to create complex documents, spreadsheets, pivot tables, and databases.
• Demonstrated ability to use data systems to analysis data as well as cleaning data in data systems.
• Demonstrated strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to organize work routines, set priorities, and meet deadlines.
• Ability in developing successful working relationships with staff, parents, students, and community members
• Knowledge of instructional leadership, classroom management, and community relations
• Ability in representing the interests of the Board or Education, Elementary, and the community with integrity and credibility
• Strong professional ethics
• Proficient at identifying problems, establishing priorities, and implementing solutions consistent with the school district’s long-range goals
• Ability in articulating, communicating, and supporting well-reasoned positions on important issues within the building and school district
• Ability in leading staff and achieve consensus on the instructional focus and methods implemented at Holbrook Elementary School at ensure student success
• Ability in modeling instructional methods and evaluating teachers in the classroom

Requirements

• Masters Degree in Educational Administration, Educational Leadership, or Curriculum
• Must hold or qualify for Michigan Administrative Certification or be willing to enroll in an Administrative Certificate Program
• Valid Michigan Teaching Certificate
• Previous successful classroom teaching experience required.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear; and taste or smell.  The employee is occasionally required to sit and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds such as books and materials.

The employee shall remain free of any alcohol or non-prescribed controlled substance in the workplace throughout his/her employment in the District.

Grand Ledge Public Schools shall provide equal opportunity and shall not discriminate in matters of employment or enrollment on the basis of age, religion, race, traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles, color national origin, gender/sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, height, weight or marital status in its programs, services or activities.