Principal For The 2023-2024 School Year

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, evaluations, policies, etc. using prescribed formats at a professional level.
• Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics of data, people, or things.
• Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and apply the principles of descriptive statistics, statistical inference, and statistical theory.
• Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.
• Ability to ensure that the school program is compatible with the legal, financial, and organizational structure of the school system.
• Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions.
• Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, articles, proposals, contracts, etc.
• Ability to visualize and implement change.

Physical Requirements

• Must possess the visual acuity to prepare data, work with records processes, and do extensive reading and research.
• Must possess the visual acuity to operate required equipment and motor vehicles. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Must be able to physically perform the basic life operational functions of climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, lifting, grasping, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions.
• Must be physically able to operate a motor vehicle.
• Must be able to perform medium work exerting in excess of 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to lift objects.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and climb or balance.
• Must be physically able to operate a variety of equipment including computers, copiers, etc.

Minimum Education and Experience

• Demonstrated instructional leadership ability.
• Must be rated Proficient and/or higher on Principal and/or AP evaluation instrument.
• Demonstrated managerial abilities.
• Must hold NC Licensure in School Administration (00012).
• Minimum of three completed years as Assistant Principal and/or Central Office experience on or before June 30, 2023.

Reports To: Assistant Superintendent of Elementary and Secondary Schools

Classification: Exempt

Salary : Paid on North Carolina Principal Salary Schedule (http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/fbs/finance/salary/schedules/2014-15schedules.pdf)

Disclaimer

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to this job.

If offered a position, prospective employee must pass a required health exam, criminal records check, and drug test.