Principal, Alternative Education

Position Type:
Administration/Principal

Date Posted:
6/20/2024

Location:
Rare Earth High School
(High-Needs School)Southern Kern Unified School District
Position Description

Position Title: Principal, Alternative Education
Department: School Site
Reports To: Superintendent or designee
Prepared By: Staff Date: July 2004

SUMMARY:

• The Principal provides instructional leadership to staff including, curriculum planning, review and implementation, and professional development.
• The Principal is responsible for the day-to-day school site operations, building administration, safety and welfare of students and staff and activities.
• The Principal ensures a safe, pleasant and effective educational atmosphere; provides discipline as necessary and enforces district policies.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Other duties may be assigned.

• Interacts with students to encourage each individual to perform at their highest level.
• Manages all building staff personnel.
• Assigns teachers to classrooms and students to classes.
• Completes performance appraisal on staff.
• Resolves staff problems and provides support to teachers.
• Provides general supervision to students.
• Supervises extra curricular activities.
• Evaluates performance of teachers, program and staff.
• Provides in-service training to teachers as needed.
• Prepares the school budget.
• Maintain relations with parents, parent groups, and school volunteers and outside agencies.
• Implements policy and procedure changes from the Board, or the State and Federal level at the building level.
• Reports appropriately to staff and to community on Public Act 25.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of this unit.
• Also directly supervises non-supervisory employees.
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.
• Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees and students; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: 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.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
Masters degree or enrolled in an internship program or equivalent and five years experience in teaching and administration.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:
Valid Teaching Certificate and an Administrative Service Credential or enrolled in an approved internship program.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
• Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

REASONING ABILITY:

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

OTHER SKILLS and ABILITIES:

• Ability to apply knowledge of current research and theory in specific field.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, staff and the community.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely both in oral and written form.
• Ability to perform duties with awareness of all district requirements and Board of Education policies.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform 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 is:

• Regularly required to stand, walk, sit, and talk and hear.
• Occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: 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.

The noise level in this environment is quiet to loud depending upon the activity in the particular part of the day.

The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the American Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position. Additional duties are performed by the individuals currently holding this position and additional duties may be assigned.