Principal

Job Title

Chief Administrator of School

Responsibilities

The Chief Administrator of School is responsible for formulating student personnel policies within CSUSA guidelines, ensuring compliance with Federal, state, and local regulations and policies, and following policy for the school's Abuse posting requirements. The role involves adhering to Human Resources policies and practices, working to achieve/sustain 100% of projected student enrollment capacity, motivating staff to achieve school objectives, and managing schedules and procedures for supervision of students in non-classroom areas. The Chief Administrator also manages and administers CSUSA workers' compensation program, routinely tours the school to assess safety and security practices, observes instructional programs, and ensures timely follow-up on identified issues. Additionally, the role includes planning and directing building maintenance, supervising all operations involving the management of the school, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and secure maintenance of all required school reports, student and personnel records, attendance, and compliance documentation, planning and supervising fire drills, emergency readiness programs, and ensuring a safe school environment. The Chief Administrator ensures compliance with Federal, state, and local regulations and policies, communicates with supervisor regularly about the needs, successes, and general operation and performance of the school, and develops and manages schedules and procedures for supervision of students in non-classroom areas. The role also involves managing and administering CSUSA workers' compensation program, following policy for the school's Abuse posting requirements, and adhering to statutory, regulatory, and CSUSA hiring guidelines.

Supervises and Develops Staff

The Chief Administrator motivates staff to achieve school objectives, communicates with staff and is responsive to their workplace-related needs, evaluates performance of staff and provides ongoing performance feedback, counsels staff on inappropriate behavior and violations of CSUSA policies and practices, adheres to Human Resources policies and practices, maintains a productive and positive employee climate, selects and hires school staff, including teachers and school-based support staff, and adheres to statutory, regulatory, and CSUSA hiring guidelines.

Communicates with Stakeholders

The Chief Administrator confers with Board Members and responds appropriately to issues that arise, articulates the school's vision, values, and goals and models those values, attends special events held to recognize student achievement and attends school sponsored activities, functions and athletic events, develops and coordinates educational programs in accordance with CSUSA and state standards and guidelines, supervises the guidance program to enhance individual student education and development, leads school-level planning of processes to ensure development, implementation, and evaluation of all school programs and activities, supervises the instructional programs of the school, ensures lesson plans are evaluated and observes classes on a regular basis to encourage the use of a variety of instructional strategies and materials consistent with CSUSA guidelines and procedures, requests and allocates supplies, equipment and instructional material as required in CSUSA guidelines and procedures, formulates student personnel policies within CSUSA guidelines, approves and provides supervision to extra-curricular activities, and provides regular opportunities for students to celebrate success in instructional programs and extracurricular activities.

Qualifications and Skills

The Chief Administrator demonstrates the ability to lead people and get results through others, has the ability to think ahead and plan over a 1-2-year time span, has the ability to organize and manage multiple priorities, possesses problem analysis and problem resolution at both a strategic and functional level, has experience with employee training and development, shows a firm commitment to customer service and student-centered practices, possesses excellent communication skills, has experience leading high-performance teams and is a strong team player, has a strong track record for analyzing complex problems/issues, identifying patterns and recommending creative solutions, possesses broad conceptual perspective and forward-thinking on business issues and their long-term impact on the business unit, the finance function and the firm, is proactive and takes initiative, thinks creatively, drives projects to completion, insists on highest level of quality, and has detailed knowledge of federal, state, and local K-12 education requirements and charter school law preferred.

Job Requirements

• Master's degree (MA) from an accredited college or university or equivalent.
• Professional Certification in Educational Leadership for Applicable State.
• 2 - 5 years' relevant experience (in school administration preferred) and/or training.
• Experience in student instruction.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a school community toward improved academic achievement.
• Computer literacy skills; proficient in Windows, MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint; Student Information System (SIS).
• Equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Such alternatives to the above requirements as CSUSA may find appropriate and acceptable.
• May perform other duties assigned.

Work Environment

While performing the responsibilities of this position, the work environment characteristics listed below are representative of the environment the employee will encounter: Usual office working conditions. May be noisy during high student traffic.

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. No physical exertion required. Required to sit and/or stand for long periods of time. Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force as frequently as needed to move objects.

FLSA Overtime Category

Job is exempt from the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.