JOB DESCRIPTION
LENGTH OF CONTRACT: 210-day Elementary Principal Contract
Reports to: Superintendent or designee
Anticipated Start Date: 7/1/2024
QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED: (Qualifications which are essential to the position)
- Must love children. Especially passionate about working with Elementary school aged
children.
- Valid WA State Teacher’s certificate and valid WA State Principal’s credential.
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with staff, students, and parents.
- Energetic individual who is actively involved in our school community.
- Knowledge and experience of elementary school programs, curriculum, instruction,
professional learning communities, and budgeting.
- Demonstrated leadership and experience in monitoring, assisting, and evaluating effective instruction and assessment practices.
- Developing, leading, and monitoring school improvement processes to increase student achievement.
QUALIFICATIONS DESIRED: (Qualifications which would be useful to the position)
- Bilingual/English/Spanish
- Demonstrated experience leading the development, implementation, and evaluation of a data-driven plan for increasing student achievement.
- Minimum 3 years demonstrated successful K-12 administrative experience; Principal experience preferred.
- Demonstrated ability in assisting staff with alignment of curriculum, instruction, and assessment with state and local district learning goals.
- Demonstrated ability to use sound judgment and ensure school safety.
- Demonstrated experience managing both staff and fiscal resources to support student achievement and legal responsibilities.
- Demonstrated experience partnering with families and communities to promote learning.
THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE SHALL:
- Work daily to provide a culture in the building that is supportive of staff and students and leads to exceptional outcomes for the school, district, and community.
- Create and foster a school culture and daily climate where individual ownership,teamwork, and growth are reached individually and collectively.
- Oversee the daily operations to meet building and student goals by listening,supporting staff, and engaging families.
- Works effectively with the District Office and building staff to build positive relationships.
- Maintain budgets and human resources effectively to support building goals and student outcomes.
- Effectively evaluate staff by following local and state required procedures.
- Grow and develop staff through positive interaction, coaching, and caring communication.
- Work to hire and retain high-quality staff and provide appropriate supervision that will ensure professional growth.
- Provide appropriate educational opportunities for all students with a focus on Multi-Tiered Systems of Support.
- Establish and adjust course outlines and objectives through planning, collaboration, and ensuring classroom instructional activities are consistent with adopted district curriculum and State Learning Standards.
- Monitor student learning using multiple sources of data to develop a plan for the improvement of student achievement and align and create systems to identify and eliminate gaps.
- Understand the importance of safety by creating a safe and orderly working environment and following safe work practices.
- Maintain and implement awareness of all legal policies regarding, but not limited to, documentation, record retention, data privacy, local bargaining agreements, and board policies.
- Contributes to team efforts by performing other related tasks as assigned by the superintendent of schools.
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