ELEMENTARY PRINCIPAL

Position Type:
Administrators/Elementary Principal

Date Posted:
2/28/2025

Location:
CHARLES HASKELL ELEMENTARY

Date Available:
07/28/2025

Closing Date:
03/12/2025
Edmond Public Schools
Edmond, Oklahoma
JOB DESCRIPTION
POSITION TITLE: Principal, Elementary

POSITION TYPE:

ADMIN

FLSA STATUS:

EXEMPT

DEPARTMENT:

ELEMENTARY

REPORTS TO:

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION

WORK CALENDAR:

EL25

SALARY RANGE: $80,937 - $95,220

CONTRACT DAYS:

207

STIPEND:

N/A

FULL TIME / PART TIME:

FULL - TIME

STANDARD WORK HOURS:

8:15AM - 4:45PM

PAY FREQUENCY:

MONTHLY

LAST UPDATED:

10.30.23

Job Summary
The Principal serves as the instructional leader of the elementary school. This involves ensuring the students are learning and the teachers are growing in their practice; ensuring the safety and security of all students, teachers, and staff every day; resolving issues that arise during the day-to-day functions of an elementary school; and telling the school's and the district's story to parents and the community through newsletters and social media platforms.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & TASKS

Percent of Time Spent

Task Title

Essential Functions

25%

Problem Solving

• Solve problems that may arise between teachers, parents, students, and staff.

20%

Meetings

• Meet with Grade Levels, Admin, Parents, IEP's, Office Staff

20%

Office Work

• Make schedules for staff
• Respond to phone calls/emails from parents and staff

15%

Discipline

• Handle Office Discipline Referrals & determine a consequence fit for the situation or provide general assistance with a student

15%

Instructional Leadership/Evaluations

• Work with teachers to help them grow in best practice.

5%

Monitoring School

• Monitor school activity at arrival, dismissal, lunch, recess, hallways, and classrooms to ensure safety of students and staff, as well as making sure procedures are being implemented appropriately.

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative description of the types of duties and responsibilities required for this position. Employees may be asked to perform other job-related duties as assigned.
Evaluation:

• The performance of this job will be evaluated by the EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION in accordance with the provisions of the Board's policies and state law.

QUALIFICATIONS
Required

• Education: Master's or Professional Degree (M.Ed., M.A.T, M.B.A, M.S.N., M.D., J.D., etc.)
  • Masters in Educational Leadership (M.Ed.)
• Certifications, Licenses, Registrations: Teaching certificate & Elementary Principal certificate, CPR, Diabetes, CPI
• Previous Experience:
  • 4-6 years work-related experience is required

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Knowledge:
  • Customer Service, School Safety, Laws & Regulations, Computer hardware and software, Instructional Pedagogy and Best Practices, Mediation Skills, Public Relations

• Basic Skills:
  • Constantly (More than 5.6 hours or 69% of the day): Speaking, Writing
  • Frequently (Between 2.6 hours and 5.5 hours or 33% to 68% of the day): Active Listening, Monitoring, Reading Comprehension, Complex Problem Solving
  • Occasionally (Up to 2.5 hours or 32% of the day): Active Learning, Critical Thinking, Learning Strategies
  • Rarely: (Less than 1 hour or 12% of the day): Mathematics, Science

• Resource Management Skills:
  • Constantly (More than 5.6 hours or 69% of the day): Time Management
  • Frequently (Between 2.6 hours and 5.5 hours or 33% to 68% of the day): Management of Personnel Resources
  • Rarely: (Less than 1 hour or 12% of the day): Management of Financial Resources, Management of Material Resources

• Social & System Skills:
  • Frequently (Between 2.6 hours and 5.5 hours or 33% to 68% of the day): Coordination, Service Orientation, Social Perceptiveness, Systems Evaluation
  • Occasionally (Up to 2.5 hours or 32% of the day): Instructing, Persuasion, Judgement and Decision Making, Systems Analysis
  • Rarely: (Less than 1 hour or 12% of the day): Negotiation

• Technical Skills:
  • N/A

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Supervisory Responsibility: Multiple Departments

• Supervisory Activities: Budgeting/Staff allocation, Developing or training, Directing, Discipling, Evaluating performance, Hiring, Investigating, Orienting or onboarding, Promoting, Scheduling, Terminating, Approving timecards or time off requests
  • Number of direct reports: 85
  • Number of indirect reports: 9

• Decision Making Authority: Decisions impact a functional area or department

• Customer Interactions: High: interactions impact the entire district and/or act as an official representative of the district

• Budget Management:
  • Order supplies, plan events, and/or book travel: Yes
  • Create or develop a budget: Yes
  • Manage or monitor a budget: Yes
  • Budgetary signing authority: Yes

• Asset Management
  • Manage district assets: No
    • Type of assets: N/A
    • Approximate value/number of assets: N/A
  • Responsible for safety/security of district assets: No
    • Type of assets: N/A
    • Approximate value/number of assets: N/A

WORKING CONDITIONS
The working conditions 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

• Physical & Psychomotor Demands:
  • Constantly (More than 5.6 hours or 69% of the day): Finger & Hand Dexterity
  • Occasionally (Up to 2.5 hours or 32% of the day): Hearing, Sitting, Standing, Walking
  • Rarely: (Less than 1 hour or 12% of the day): Balancing, Climbing, Crawling, Crouching, Kneeling, Lifting, Multi-limb Coordination, Pulling, Pushing, Reaching, Repetitive Motion

• Work Type:
  • Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for light work.

• Work Environment:
  • Everyday risk and discomfort level: The environment involves everyday risks or discomforts that require normal safety precautions typical of such places as offices, meeting and training rooms, libraries, residences, or commercial vehicles, e.g., use of safe work practices with office equipment, avoidance of trips and falls, observance of fire regulations and traffic signals. The work area is adequately lighted, heated, and ventilated.

EEO Disclaimer
Edmond Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), disability, age, religion, military status, ancestry or genetic information (collectively, "Protected Classes").
The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position. Edmond Public Schools reserves the right to change or assign other duties to this position.