Title: Elementary Principal
Location: Runnells Elementary

Qualifications:

• Minimum of Master's Degree in school administration, Specialist’s or terminal degree preferred
• Valid evaluator's certification
• Four years of administrative experience recommended
• Demonstrated successful instructional leadership experience

Reports to: Superintendent of Schools

Job Goal:
To lead the overall development of an innovative elementary school committed to ensuring that all students are engaged in a safe and high quality learning environment that delivers on the shared mission and vision of the district. The principal serves as an educational leader who also has the responsibility of managing the policies, regulations, and procedures that ensure that the focus of the school is student learning.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Establishes and maintains an effective learning climate in the school.
• Initiates, designs, and implements programs to meet specific needs of the school.
• Keeps the superintendent and other district office personnel informed of the school's activities and problems.
• Makes recommendations concerning the school's administration and instruction.
• Prepares and submits the school's budgetary requests, and monitors expenditures of funds.
• Supervises the maintenance of all required building records and reports.
• Prepares or supervises the preparation of reports, records, lists, and all other paperwork required or appropriate to the school's administration.
• Keeps supervisor informed of events and activities of an unusual nature as well as routine matters related to the supervisor's accountability.
• Assumes responsibility for the implementation and observance of all board policies and regulations by the school's staff and students.
• Maintains active relationships with students and parents.
• Budgets school time to provide for the efficient conduct of school instruction and business.
• Leads in the development, determination of appropriateness, and monitoring of the instructional program.
• Schedules classes within established guidelines to meet student needs.
• Assists in the development, revision, and evaluation of the curriculum.
• Supervises the guidance program to enhance individual student education and development.
• Maintains high standards of student conduct and enforces discipline as necessary, according due process to the rights of students.
• Establishes guides for proper student conduct and maintaining student discipline.
• Attends special events held to recognize student achievement, and attend school-sponsored activities, functions, and other school related events.
• Maintains and controls the various local funds generated by student activities.
• Supervises the maintenance of accurate records on the progress and attendance of students.
• Assumes responsibility for the attendance, conduct, and maintenance of health of students.
• Assumes responsibility for his/her own professional growth and development through membership and participation in the affairs of professional organizations, through attendance at regional, state, and national meetings, through enrollment in advanced courses, and the like.
• Keeps abreast of changes and developments in the profession by attending professional meetings, reading professional journals and other publications, and discussing problems of mutual interest with others in the field.
• Supervises all professional, paraprofessional, administrative, and nonprofessional personnel attached to the school.
• Assists in the recruiting, screening, hiring, training, assigning, and evaluating of the school's professional staff.
• Orients newly assigned staff members and assists in their development, as appropriate.
• Evaluates and counsels all staff members regarding their individual and group performance.
• Conducts meetings of the staff as necessary for the proper functioning of the school.
• Assists in the in-service orientation and training of teachers, with special responsibility for staff administrative procedures and instructions.
• Recommends, according to established procedures, the removal of a teacher whose work is unsatisfactory.
• Makes arrangements for special conferences between parents and teachers.
• Plans and supervises fire drills and an emergency preparedness program.
• Provides for adequate inventories of property under his jurisdiction and for the security and accountability for that property.
• Participates in principals' meetings and such other meetings as are required or appropriate.
• Serves as an ex officio member of all committees and councils within his/her school.
• Cooperates with college and university officials regarding teacher training and preparation.
• Responds to written and oral requests for information in a timely fashion.
• Assumes responsibility for all official school correspondence and news releases.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with local community groups and individuals to foster understanding and solicit support for overall school objectives and programs; to interpret board policies and administrative directives; and to discuss and resolve individual student problems.
• Serves as a member of such committees and attends such meetings as directed to by the superintendent.
• Delegates authority to responsible personnel to assume responsibility for the school in the absence of the principal.

Terms of Employment:
1. Employed on a twelve-month basis.
2. Salary and fringe benefits set by Board of Education.

Position Evaluated by: Superintendent

Description reviewed by: Principals and Superintendent 12/2012
Disclaimer:

It is the policy of the Southeast Polk Community School District not to illegally discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion, creed, age (for employment), marital status (for programs), sexual orientation, gender identity and socioeconomic status (for programs) in its educational programs and its employment practices. If you have questions or a grievance related to this policy please contact, Joseph M. Horton, Associate Superintendent, Affirmative Action Coordinator, Equity Coordinator and Title IX Coordinator, Southeast Polk District Office, 407 8th St SE, Altoona, IA 50009, (515) 967-4294, joseph.horton@southeastpolk.org. Inquiries or grievances may also be directed to the Iowa Civil Rights Commission, Des Moines, IA, 50319-0201, (515) 281-4121; or the Director of the Region VII Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, John C. Kluczynski Federal Building, 230 S. Dearborn St., 37th Floor, Chicago, IL 60604.