Porter County Career Center Principal

PORTER COUNTY EDUCATION SERVICES SCHOOL DISTRICT; Valparaiso (IN); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Porter County Education Services School District in Porter County is seeking a Principal for the Porter County Career Center for the 2026-2027 school year. The position may include extra assignments and talent considerations as determined by the Board.

Qualified candidates will hold Indiana licensure for Administration and Supervision (or eligibility) and a CTE Director license (or eligibility). A minimum of five years of successful teaching experience is required, with CTE experience helpful.

Qualifications

• Indiana Secondary Administration and Supervision License or eligible.
• CTE Director license preferred or eligible.
• Minimum five years of successful teaching experience; CTE helpful.
• Proven ability to collaborate with peers, staff, parents and students.
• Positive public relations image and professional demeanor.
• Understanding of CTE and high school curricula.

Responsibilities

• Establishes and maintains an effective learning climate.
• Assist the CTE Director in overall administration of the school.
• Monitor and oversee designated budgetary line items.
• Supervise maintenance of records and reports.
• Prepare or supervise reports, records, lists and documents.
• Collaborate with central admin on transportation and services.
• Keep central admins informed of events and unusual activities.
• Articulate and monitor State CTE standards with staff.
• Promote best practices and staff development.
• Support licensing and mentoring programs for Workplace Specialists.
• Enforce laws, policies, and school regulations.
• Maintain relationships with students, parents, and partnering staff.
• Recruit, screen, hire, train and evaluate school personnel.
• Orient new staff and provide development opportunities.

Skills

Five years teaching experience

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Education

Indiana Secondary Administration and Supervision License

CTE Director license

Job description

Porter County Education Services - Porter County Career Center

NOTICE OF Anticipated ADMINISTRATIVE OPENING

September 15, 2026

The following position is an open position for the 2026-2027 school year. It should be understood that this opening may carry with it extra-curricular assignments or other special talent considerations which will influence the final administrative decision on the assignment.

POSITION: Principal

LOCATION: Porter County Career Center

Qualifications

• have or be eligible for Indiana Secondary Administration and Supervision License;
• have or consider pursuing a CTE Director license;
• have a minimum of five years' successful teaching experience, CTE instruction is helpful;
• have demonstrated superior ability to work with peers, supervisory staff, parents and students;
• possess characteristics which represent a positive public relations image;
• have demonstrated a positive understanding of the educational needs of the career and technical education student;
• have the ability to make the area career center an attractive, pleasant, and productive place for working and learning;
• have recognized and demonstrated good teaching-learning classroom environment;
• have an understanding of the career and technical education curriculum; as well as, the comprehensive high school curriculum;
• Have demonstrated leadership qualities;
• Have training and interest in education for special needs children;
• Such alternatives to the above as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

REPORTS TO: Executive Director of Career and Technical Education and/or designated representative for the performance of all assigned duties.

Performance Responsibilities

• Establishes and maintains an effective learning climate in the school;
• Assists the CTE Director in the overall administration of the school;
• Monitor and oversee designated budgetary line items;
• Supervises the maintenance of all required building records and reports;
• Prepares or supervises the preparation of reports, records, lists, and all other documents as assigned;
• Works with various school members of the central administrative staff on school problems, such as transportation and special services;
• Assist the CTE Director to keep superintendents or appropriate central office administration and/or building principals informed of events and activities of an unusual nature as routine matters related to the administrator's ability;
• Articulates career and technical education State standards to staff and monitors implementation;
• Keeps abreast of current research/best practices and disseminates information to teaching staff;
• Assists in facilitating and monitoring the Workplace Specialist licensing and mentoring programs;
• Enforces laws, regulations, student guide, Board Policy Manual, and other policies;
• Maintains active relationship with students, parents, and partner school personnel;
• Maintain school principal's Advisory Committee,
• Assists in the development, determination of appropriateness, and monitoring of the instructional program;
• Assists in the development, revision, and evaluation of the career and technical education curriculum;
• Maintains high standards of student conduct and enforces discipline as necessary, according to due process rights of students;
• Assist in establishing guides for proper student conduct and maintaining student discipline;
• Attends special events held to recognize student achievement, and attends school-sponsored activities and functions;
• Supervises the maintenance of accurate records on the progress and attendance of students;
• Assumes responsibility for his or her own professional growth and development;
• Keeps abreast of changes and developments in the profession;
• Supervises professional, paraprofessional, and support personnel attached to the school, as assigned;
• Assists in the recruiting, screening, hiring, training, assigning, mentoring, and evaluation of the school's personnel;
• Orients newly assigned staff members and assist in the development, as appropriate;
• Evaluates and counsels staff members regarding their individual and group performance, as assigned;
• Conducts meeting of the staff as necessary for the proper functioning of the school;
• Assists in the in-service orientation and training of teachers, with special responsibility for staff administrative procedures and instructions.
• Recommends, according to established procedures the dismissal or reassignment of a teacher whose work is unsatisfactory;
• Attends special conferences between parents and teachers, when appropriate;
• Supervises the daily use of the school facilities for both academic and nonacademic purposes;
• Plans and supervises fire drills, tornado drills, school safety drills and an emergency preparedness program;
• Asserts leadership in times of civil disobedience in school in accordance with established Board Policy;
• Aligns building personnel's goals and priorities with the mission and belief statement of the PCES and PCCTE Strategic Plan;
• Provides for adequate inventories of school property and for the security and accountability for that property;
• Supervises and evaluates the school's co-curricular programs;
• Works collaboratively with Student Success Coordinators;
• Participates in principals' meetings and such other meetings as required or appropriate;
• Responds to written and oral requests for information;
• Serves as a member of such committees and attends such meetings as directed by the Executive Director of CTE or his/her designee;
• Principals have the authority to delegate one or more of their responsibilities to appropriate personnel but remain responsible for the results produced;
• Performs such other tasks and assumes such other responsibilities as assigned by the Executive Director of CTE or his/her designee.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: Contract Two Hundred Fifteen (215) Days

Salary- Administrative Salary Schedule

EVALUATIONS: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with the provisions of the Board of School Trustees policy.