CRAVEN COUNTY SCHOOLS

Assistant Principal

Position Description

Position Title:  Assistant Principal
Reports to: Principal

Terms of Employment:  10 months, full time
Pay Grade:  See state salary scale
Pay Range:  See state salary scale
FLSA Status:  Exempt

Nature of Work

The assistant principal serves as a member of the administrative team to develop and implement the total school program.

Education and Experience

• Master’s degree in School Administration

Certification and Licensure Requirements (if applicable):

• Must hold a Principal license or be eligible for a provisional license

 Essential Functions/Typical Tasks

• Pre-Class Organization: assists to implement student orientation and registration
• Planning the School Program: assists in the development and establishing of the school goals and objectives and the planning of the schools instructional program.
• Implementing the School Program: assists to provide direction to staff in implementing goals and objectives, interacts and meets with staff to assist in their development.
• Evaluation and Remediation of the School Program: assists in the evaluation of the school program and of staff and assists to initiate needed improvements.
• Involving the Staff in Budget Allocations: involves the staff in setting budget
• Keeping Professionally Competent: acts to upgrade own professional knowledge and skills.
• Coordinating Budgets and Schedules: assists in the preparation and management of budgets and schedules and in the coordination and implementation of the co-curricular program.
• Handling Disciplinary Procedures: assists to define and disseminate information about school disciplinary policies and procedures to parents, students, staff, and community.
• Coordinating and Communicating the Schools Formal Structure: communicates and carries out established policies, delegates and accepts responsibility for completion of tasks and communicates program goals, objectives, and policies to the community.

• Coordinating School Services and Resources: assists in supervising and maintaining auxiliary services and uses community resources to supplement the school program. 
• Facilitating Organizational Efficiency: promotes and maintains open communications, positive student attitudes, respects dignity, worth of staff, students, and complies with established lines of authority.  
• Assisting in Record Keeping: assists in completion of records and reports and in the supervision and inventory of necessary supplies, textbooks, equipment, and materials.

 Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Assists to implement student orientation and registration activities.
• Assists in the development and establishment of the school's goals and objectives and the planning of the school's instructional program.
• Assists to provide direction to staff in implementing goals and objectives and interacts and meets with staff to assist in their development.
• Assists in the evaluation of the school program and of staff and assists to initiate needed improvements.
• Involves the staff in setting budget prior ities.
• Acts to upgrade own professional knowledge and
• Assists in the preparation and management of budgets and schedules and in the coordination and implementation of the co-curricular program.
• Assists to define and disseminate information about school discipline policy and procedures to parents, students, staff, and
• Communicates and carries out established policies, delegates and accepts responsibility for completion of tasks and communicates program goals, objectives, and policies to the community.
• Assists in supervising and maintaining auxiliary service and uses community resources to supplement the school program.
• Promotes and maintains open communications, positive student attitudes, respects dignity, worth of staff, students and complies with established lines of
• Assists in completion of records and reports and in the supervision and inventory of necessary supplies, textbooks, equipment, and materials.

Physical Requirements

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; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Special Requirements

In compliance with Federal Law, Craven County Schools administers all education programs, employment activities and admissions without discrimination against any person on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age or disability.