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Principal & Assistant Principal Vacancies from PTC Member Schools
Escuela Bella Vista
Position Title: Secondary Principal
Reports to: Superintendent
Effective: August 2012
Compensation and Work Year: 18 days in addition to the school year calendar.
Position Description: The Secondary Principal position requires executive talent, combined with a visionary outlook and extraordinary interpersonal skills. The principal is the personification of the values and aspirations of the secondary school. S/he must possess the ability to nurture, support, inspire and lead a community of professional educators, a group of student learners, and a parent community with high expectations, while always modeling attributes of fairness and respect. At the same time he/she must stimulate the adults and children under his/her supervision to strive and achieve to their potential. A strong communicator and an equally effective listener, the principal becomes the embodiment of the school’s identity and institutional personality.
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree
- Organizational ability, initiative, and effective communication and interpersonal skills.
- Bilingual - Spanish/English
- Experience on school committees and/or accreditation
- Interest and experience in providing staff development
- Documented success in curriculum leadership and best practices for assessment
- Proven success in the development of a standards-based curriculum and versed in the UBD model and Big 8 ideas of assessment.
- Ability to work collaboratively with faculty across all grade levels and subject areas
- Experience developing a collegial, collaborative and positive atmosphere amongst the faculty
- Is a life-long learner – a reader of professional material that can convert theory to practice
- Ability to delegate, build consensus and make decisions.
- Is flexible and has a sense of humor
- Strong leadership skills with integrity and a commitment to excellence
- Knowledge of child development
- Familiarity with second language learning and associated issues
- Sensitivity towards, and understanding of a diverse range of student learning needs
Description of Duties:
- Run the day-to-day operations of this section of the school.
- Provide students, faculty and staff with a rigorous academic program. Organize, administer, promote and provide instructional leadership to the curricular and co-curricular programs of the secondary school.
- Ensure compliance with accrediting agency standards, implement procedures outlined in the faculty handbook, and action steps highlighted in the EBV Action Plans.
- Supervise teachers to ensure student learning, provide feedback on performance, encourage professional development and support and supervise teachers informally and formally through regular visits to classrooms.
- Ensure parent meetings, conferences and timely communication about the secondary school events and programs.
- Develop and meets annual goals, discussed with and set by administrative team, in support of the overall strategic plan. Complete an annual written self-appraisal against annual goals and job description
- Keep up-to-date parent/student and faculty handbooks with recent policies.
- Develop and monitor class schedules and use of facilities.
- Prepare and administer the secondary program budget, requisition appropriate supplies and equipment within that budget, and maintain condition, safety and inventory control over all equipment.
- Develop and place into operation appropriate rules and regulations governing student conduct and responsibilities.
- Organize faculty assignments, be a mentor, and evaluate performance on an ongoing basis.
- Foster and maintain clear, qualitative school - community relations by: keeping the community aware of and responsive to the elementary division’s programs and activities; active participation at school assemblies and programs; providing articles and information to parents directly via the school newsletter and/or on a Principal webpage; participating in parent group such as PTSA.
- Comply with all relevant Board Policies and administration requirements.
- Assist the Superintendent in the hiring of qualified faculty and support staff and/or recommend appointments.
- Work with the admissions office in the making of admission decisions.
- Participating in all school curricular efforts.
- Work with the elementary principal, maintaining clear and consistent lines of communication.
Application Procedure: Apply with cover letter, resume by email to Todd Zukewich no later than November 18, 2011: zukewicht@ebv.org.ve
American School Foundation of Monterrey
Position Title: High School Principal/MSHS Campus Director
Reports to: Superintendent
Effective: August 2012
The High School Principal/MSHS Campus Director will be the head administrator at the MSHS Campus. The initial contract will be a three year term. If the first contract period is mutually satisfactory, the Board would favor a contract renewal. This is not a stepping stone position; ASFM seeks the commitment of a leader who will make the continued growth and success of ASFM his or her own professional project.
For full details please visit to ASFM website at: http://www.asfm.edu.mx/about-asfm/recruiting/vacancies
Interested candidates will submit the following to Dr. D. Jeffrey Keller, jeff.keller@asfm.edu.mx as early as possible, and no later than September 30th, 2011, 4:00pm: current resume with references; letters of recommendation and a 500 word (or less) statement outlining a personal philosophy of education and what specific contributions he or she might make to the MSHS campus if selected for this position. ASFM reserves the right to make an appointment before the deadline is reached. Therefore it is important that interested candidates apply as early as possible.