Assistant Principal - High School

Aspire Public Schools; Huntington Park (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Aspire Public Schools is seeking a Site Principal to lead a CA school site with focus on academic achievement, culture, and operations. You will guide curriculum, supervise staff, and drive partnerships to support student success.

Ideal candidates bring strong instructional leadership, data-driven decision making, and experience managing budgets and personnel in urban school settings. This role emphasizes equity, program quality, and ongoing professional growth.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated commitment to students and learning.
• Experience with instructional leadership, including curriculum, instruction, assessment, and developing teachers.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to write clearly and persuasively and interact effectively with different audiences.
• Excellent organization, time management and follow-up skills; high sense of urgency; demonstrated ability to successfully handle multiple projects concurrently; ability to work as a team.
• Minimum educational level: Bachelor’s Degree; Masters or Ph.D. in Education preferred

Responsibilities

• Provide Instructional Leadership for the school site, including maintaining school-wide focus on student achievement.
• Design and lead high quality professional development to increase instructional capacity of staff.
• Assist in managing human resources: attract, coach, evaluate and provide development opportunities.
• Assist in managing school-site resources and budget adherence.
• Represent the school site to build community and communicate with parents and partners.
• Lead and collaborate with Wellness teams and support Master Scheduling.

Skills

Instructional leadership

Curriculum development

Data analysis

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Masters or Ph.D. in Education preferred

Job description

Aspire Public Schools operates a network of high-performing, college preparatory charter schools serving TK-12 scholars in communities across California. Founded in 1998—in an effort to transform the inequitable racial, social, and gender outcomes that our communities persist through—Aspire is one of the largest and most forward-thinking open-enrollment public charter school systems in the nation.

Our purpose is to prepare our scholars for success in college, career, and life. At Aspire, we set a foundation for our scholars to gain knowledge, skills, and power to access and make choices for their families and post-secondary lives. Every day, our community of students, families, teachers and staff comes together to learn, work, and play in an environment grounded in our values of Bienestar (Well-Being), Culture of Belonging, Community Partnership, Agency & Self-Determination, and Joy.

JOB SUMMARY

Assist the Site Principal in managing all the functions of an individual school site for academic and extended school year, including education program, school culture, office operations, budget, community relations, personnel and facilities in accordance with Aspire standards.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions

Provide Instructional Leadership for the school site, including

• Maintain school-wide focus on high standards of student achievement
• Maintain curriculum standards and liaise with content leads to design and implement curriculum
• Manage process for analyzing data to increase student achievement, including students with special needs and related compliance and collaboration with SPED and Student Services colleagues
• Design and lead high quality professional development to increase instructional capacity of staff
• Support and coaching of new and veteran teachers toward growth including supporting new Teachers through Induction

Assist in managing human resources, including

• Attract and select top performers
• Coach, evaluate and provide professional development opportunities
• Develop collaborative team culture
• Adhere to company policy and state/federal employment laws
• Consult with Human Resources as appropriate including for all performance management related concerns

Assist in managing all resources at school site and/or manage specified grant or categorical funds, including

• Set and maintain a balanced budget
• Adhere to restrictions and reporting requirements of funds
• Plan for future needs
• Adhere to company policy and protocols for sound fiscal management

Represent the school site in building an effective school community, including

• Design and lead high quality professional development that develops and supports healthy school culture including SEL learning
• Communicate with parents to better serve students
• Garner support from community groups and leaders
• Develop positive relationships with sponsoring district and neighborhood schools

Lead and collaborate with Behavior Response and Wellness teams from a trauma-informed and Restorative Justice lens in alignment with compliance protocol and in partnership with Student Services including:

• 504 plan compliance; Student Support, Discipline, Deescalation, supervision of students as needed, and management of any outside partnerships as applicable

• Assist in managing daily operations, facilities, safety, and administrative processes
• Address issues and problems that arise in a principle-centered, creative, thoughtful and constructive way
• Serve as administrative lead when Principal attends off-site meetings providing supervision for staff
• Provide leadership and support for extracurricular and partnership programs as applicable, especially at the Secondary level
• Collaborate with Principal to support Master Scheduling
• Lead projects as discussed with principal, including

• Long-term strategic planning, process improvement, cycle of inquiry-driven instructional improvements, operational improvement, charter renewal and oversight, accreditation, or any other projects required at the school site

• Work in collaboration with School Site Leadership and Home Office to achieve site and organizational goals

Additional

• Demonstrate knowledge of, and support, the Aspire Public Schools mission, vision, value statements including antiracism, policies and procedures, operating instructions, confidentiality standards, and the code of ethical behavior
• Perform other related duties as required and assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrated commitment to students and learning
• Experience with instructional leadership, including demonstrated knowledge of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and developing teachers
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to write clearly and persuasively and interact effectively with different audiences
• Excellent organization, time management and follow-up skills; high sense of urgency; demonstrated ability to successfully handle multiple projects concurrently; ability to work as a team
• Minimum educational level:
• Bachelor’s Degree required;
• Masters or Ph.D. in Education preferred

Certifications and/or Licensure

• Administrative Credential preferred
• NCLB Highly Qualified preferred

Experience required

• 3+ years working with urban students as a full-time teacher preferred
• 7+ years teaching and administrative experience

Physical requirements

• Stand, walk or bend over, kneel, crouch, reach overhead, grasp, push, and pull. Move, lift and/or carry up to 30 pounds to shoulder height
• Repetitive use of hands (i.e. fine manipulation, simple grasping, and power grasping)
• Sitting, walking or standing for extended periods of time
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, operate standard office equipment, and use a telephone
• See and read a computer screen and printed matter with or without vision aids
• Hear and understand speech at normal levels and on the telephone with or without auditory aides
• Clear the Department of Justice background screening
• Authorized to work in the United States
• Provide health (TB) clearance (most update every four years)

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics are representative of those in a normal office, classroom/school setting which one might encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work indoors in a standard office environment, computer lab, and/or classroom environment

Work is performed in indoor and outdoor environments

Exposure to dust, oils, and cleaning chemicals

Some exposure to childhood and other diseases in a school environment

May be required to work outside of typical work days and office hours to meet operational deadlines

EEO STATEMENT

Aspire Public Schools provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

This position description intends to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. It is not intended to include all duties and responsibilities. The order in which duties and responsibilities are listed is not significant.

Disclaimer

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