ASSISTANT

Assistant Principal

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

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Pre-Class Organization: Assists to implement student orientation and registration activities.
• Planning the School Program: Assists in the development and establishing of the school’s goals and objectives and the planning of the school’s instructional program.
• Implementing the School Program: Provides direction to staff in implementing goals and objectives and interacts and meets with staff to assist in their development.
• Evaluating and Remediation 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 priorities.
• 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 discipline policy and procedures to parents, students, staff, and community.
• Coordinating and Communicating the School’s 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 service 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.

Minimum training and experience includes a master’s degree in Education Administration, 3 to 5 years of experience as a classroom teacher or any equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.

Special requirements include a teaching certificate from the State of North Carolina and a valid North Carolina driver’s license.