Lower School Assistant Principal

Mission: To assist Christian parents by helping equip students to embrace Biblical truth, strive for academic excellence, and model Christ-like leadership to influence their homes, churches, and communities for Christ.

Employee Profile:

Spiritually, the employee shall possess characteristics that reflect:

• Acceptance without reservation of the PCA doctrinal beliefs.
• A strong clear Christian testimony.
• A mature, godly spirit.
• A person of faith and prayer

Personally, the employees life shall reflect:

1. A lifestyle of biblical integrity.
2. A spirit of dedication, commitment, flexibility, and responsiveness.
3. The ability to listen and respond to counsel.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The Assistant Principal is viewed as a co-leader, assisting and supporting the campus principal in the following areas:

Personnel and Student Management

• Keep the staff informed and seek ideas for the continual improvement of the school.
• Maintain visibility and positive, cooperative and mutually supportive relationships with students, faculty, parents and the Board.
• Approve teacher attendance such as sick leave, personal leave, and professional leave.
• Nurture both students and faculty to achieve their greatest potential academically, instructionally, and spiritually.
• Establish and promote high standards and expectations for all students for academic performance and responsibility for behavior.
• Supervise in a fair and consistent manner effective discipline and attendance systems with high standards.
• Ensure a safe, orderly environment that encourages students to take responsibility for behavior.
• Make sound disciplinary judgments related to student problems, provide due process to students and communicate with parents when necessary.
• Communicate regularly with parents, seeking their support and input, so as to create a cooperative relationship to support the students in the school.
• Supervise, with the input of the nurse, any health concerns of the students and faculty.
• Enforce the school dress code as well as promote PCAs unwritten code of conduct.
• Assist in the admissions process through conducting parent interviews and participation in admissions review committees

Administration and Organization

• Manage and evaluate effective and clear procedures for the operation and functioning of the Lower School consistent with the philosophy, mission, values and goals of the school including instructional programs and discipline systems to ensure a safe and orderly climate, building maintenance, program evaluation, personnel management, office operations, and emergency procedures.
• Ensure compliance with all laws, board policies and civil regulations.
• Assist the principal in communicating the Lower Schools vision with students, staff, and parents.
• Conduct meetings, as necessary, for the proper functioning of the school: Divisional and Institute.
• Assist in the oversight of the daily operation, direction, and supervision of the Lower School faculty and students.
• Use excellent written and oral English skills when communicating with students, parents, and teachers.
• Use effective presentation skills when addressing students, staff, parents and the community.
• Complete in a timely fashion all records and reports as requested by the Principal and/or Headmaster.
• Maintain procedures for the safe storing and integrity of all public and confidential school records while protecting confidentiality of school records and information gained as part of exercising professional duties.
• Assist the principal in maintaining a Lower School staff handbook and in preparing a student-parent handbook
• Attend req