Principal (Pool)

POSITION OVERVIEW
Please note this posting is for the School Principal position “pool” - meaning, while our team has not yet identified openings for this position, we will interview potential candidates for future, possible openings. Please only apply to this role if you meet the specific requirements outlined at the bottom of the posting. 

At KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools, the School Principal’s primary role is to be the instructional leader of their building. The School Principal drives high-quality academic and school environment outcomes for their students and staff. In the event our organization has an opening, we would select a School Principal from the School Principal pool to be a “successor” to a sitting School Principal

The School Principal should spend about 70-75% of their time daily on instructional leadership - specifically, leading and developing their administration team and their teachers to improve outcomes for student achievement. The School Principal builds lasting and sustainable systems for the ongoing development of their team. Typically, a School Principal manages their team of Assistant School Principal a school-based operations leader, school counselors, and other teacher leaders at their school. They report directly to the Chief Schools Officer and work closely with a variety of stakeholders including the shared services team for KIPP Jacksonville, families, etc.

School Principal are vision-setters and are skilled at building a culture for their team that has commitments for social justice and educational equity for all students that mirror the region’s vision and goals.

As a school-based administrator, this position is year-round and performs duties as assigned by their manager. Typical hours for school-based leaders vary Monday through Friday and there may be occasional meetings, special school events, or commitments that fall outside of typical business hours and days.
 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Be the face of the school, its biggest cheerleader and loudest advocate

2. Set ambitious school-wide vision and goals, aligned with the KIPP region, that lead students to have choice upon graduation 

3. Plan and prioritize time and resources to achieve annual goals

4. Cultivate a diverse, high-potential school leadership pipeline (from teacher leader to AP to successor) and develop leadership team members by teaching and insisting that they are true owners of the work and coaching and assigning stretch activities

5. Model expectations for leaders, teachers, and students on school-wide practices for a positive learning culture

   • Builds a joyful, academically excellent environment

   • Works to build relationships based in trust with and among all stakeholders

   • Works to build restorative practices for all stakeholders

6. Develop systems and structures to hire and retain diverse, highly-effective staff

   • Work proactively with the talent team to find mission-aligned staff members

   • Actively retain highly-effective staff and work to build capacity of those in need of improvement

7. Build own and school staff’s knowledge and expertise in effective instructional design and academic standards

   • Develop teachers’ conceptual understanding of what students must know and be able to do and what instructional methods drive student mastery

   • Develop knowledge of how standards map to curriculum and assessment

8. Develop teachers to provide rigorous and high quality instruction

   • Lead analysis of and develop teachers’ ability to analyze student data to identify strategies that will move students toward mastery

   • Regularly observe and coach instructional coaches to ensure they are providing high-impact, actionable and bite-sized feedback to teachers on a weekly basis

   • Ensure teachers can collaborate, analyze their practice and their student data, and adjust instruction in content teams 

   • Lead whole-school professional development workshops that drive highest-impact improvements in teacher practice

9. Cultivate School Principal’s own success and sustainability by engaging lifelines and renewing to get stronger

   • Be a lifelong learner

   • Be an active member of of the School Principal Team sharing best practices and learning with each other