Job Summary
Position is responsible for assisting the school principal in the planning, organization, administration, and management of an assigned secondary school with an emphasis on leading the schools operations. Position assists with supervising staff, creating a safe environment, and other duties associated with the successful operation of a secondary school.
Essential Duties
• Coordinates and supervises the daily operation of the schools attendance program, athletics, and activities program, security functions, transportation, cafeteria program, custodial program, in-school suspension, detention operations, and the clinic. • Establishes and administers the schools student discipline plan and ensures a safe and orderly environment. • Assists the school principal in ensuring that the schools policies and procedures related to student discipline, referrals, and discipline action plans meet state, federal, and division requirements. • Supervises and coordinates the preparation of student discipline review documents as required by School Board policy. • Conferences with parents, guardians of students concerning discipline, attendance, and student behavior. • Administers disciplinary action as necessary and notifies parent, guardians of action taken. • Consults with student services personnel to find long-term solutions to inappropriate student behavior. • Provides professional development for the instructional staff and other assigned personnel regarding school security, the Rights and Responsibilities Handbook, classroom management, effective discipline strategies, and conferencing techniques. • Supervises the secondary assistant principals in the building. • Assists the school principal in establishing and sustaining relationships with the business community and other youth-serving organizations to foster understanding and solicit support for students and their families. • Monitors halls, school grounds, and pupil movement to ensure a smart, safe environment at the assigned school. • Attends and supervises after-school evening and weekend school-sponsored events and activities as assigned. • Develops, articulates, and supports school safety initiatives to the faculty and school community. • Seeks ways to develop and sustain a climate of mutual respect between and among the students and adults who participate in the school. • Prepares related reports and records as required by the school division, local, state, or federal government. • Models nondiscriminatory practices in all activities.
Other Duties
• Assists the secondary school principal with interviewing and recommending qualified candidates for vacancies within the assigned secondary school. • Initiates and maintains effective liaisons with professional societies to keep abreast of developments and research in the profession. • Performs any other related duties as assigned by the school principal or other appropriate administrators.
Job Specifications
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, skills, and/or ability required.
Minimum Qualifications
• Must possess a Masters degree and be eligible for a Virginia Postgraduate Professional License in administration and supervision. • Must possess at least three years of successful experience as a teacher with some experience at the secondary school level. • Must possess a comprehensive knowledge of the current issues, principles, and practices in public secondary school education and the ability to apply them to the needs of a school. • Must possess the ability to assist with administering and managing the operation of a secondary school. • Must possess the ability to plan and supervise the work of others. • Must possess the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, parents, staff, and the public.
Working Conditions & Physical Requirements
• Must have the ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time, exhibit manual dexterity to dial a telephone, to enter data into a computer terminal, to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids, hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors, and on the telephone, speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone, physical agility to lift up to 25 pounds, to bend, stoop, climb stairs, walk, and reach overhead.
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. • Duties are normally performed in a school classroom environment. • The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Supervision Exercised
• All staff assigned by the principal.
Supervision Received
• Principal
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. The Assistant Principal IV will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other related duties as assigned by the principal or appropriate administrator. Newport News Public Schools reserves the right to update, revise, or change this job description and related duties at any time.