MADERA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
CERTIFICATED MANAGEMENT JOB DESCRIPTION

PRINICPAL


Overall Responsibilities
Provide instructional leadership and overall management of the administration of a school as prescribed by federal and state laws, district policies and regulations.

Specific Responsibilities
1. Perform all duties ascribed by the Board of Trustees in accordance with legal mandates.
2. Provide instructional leadership to support each staff person’s work to increase student achievement including such activities as effective staff evaluation, testing use of data.
3. Provide managerial leadership to support each staff person’s work to provide a safe school including such activities as discipline code enforcement, report preparation and use of data.
4. Provide managerial leadership to support each staff person’s work to promote a positive school climate including such activities as effective student activities, and use of data.
5. Participate in district-wide and community activities that support planning public relationships, communication, team building, and others as appropriate.
6. Other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications
Specific knowledge of:
1. Management of human resources.
2. Laws, policies, and procedures applicable to the assignment.
3. External resources that can assist by providing information, suggestions and solution to problems.

Specific Ability to:
1. Provide leadership that enables all staff to increase student achievement, provide a safe school, and promote a positive school climate.
2. Resolve conflicts in manner that promotes goodwill toward the staff, the school and the district.
3. Contribute to the successful fulfillment of the District Mission.
4. Provide leadership setting a high standard of personal conducts that enable staff to work cooperatively with others.
5. Communication clearly to diverse audiences: providing routine transfer of information, assisting other in need, resolving conflicts under stress, representing the District under stress, representing the District to the media, and other settings as required.
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6. Learn and appropriately apply District policies and procedures and other regulation related to the position.
7. Conduct responsibilities of the position based on information and instructions provided in English.
8. Maintain appropriate confidentiality about he status of students, staff, school, and programs activities.
9. Operate calculator, computer, and data entry terminals.
10. Learn and apply current technology to assigned duties.

Education:
1. Graduate study in educational administration.
2. Masters Degree preferred.

Experience:
1. Three years as a classroom or support teacher or counselor.
2. Successful administrative experience at no less than a coordinator, assistant/vice principal level.

License:
1. California credential authorizing service as an administrator.
2. Valid California Driver’s License.

EMPLOYMENT INFORMATON
Supervisor’s Title: Area Assistant Superintendent
Unit Membership: Management/Confidential/Supervisory

Current Salary Schedule Placement:

PHYSICAL DEMANDS IN THE WORK ENVIRONMENT

These physical characteristics are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job safely.


1. Mobility sufficient to move about, stand, and/or sit for
extended periods, and access all locations in the work
environment.
2. Manual skill to appropriately control and manipulate objects,
tools, materials, and equipment used on the job, including a
telephone and a computer.
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3. Flexibility and strength to reach with hands and arms, bend
and stoop.
4. Ability to hear and understand speech at normal room levels,
and to hear and understand speech on the telephone.
5. Ability to speak in audible tones so that others may understand
clearly in normal conversations and on the telephone.
6. Ability to see, read, and distinguish colors, with or without
vision aids: computer screen, equipment used in the
work environment, instructional materials, training
materials, directions, rules, policies, calendars,
agendas, manual, and other printed matter.
7. Physical strength and agility to push, pull, squat, twist, turn, and
lift and carry bulky objects of up to 25 pounds with or
without assistance.
8. Mental acuity to perform the essential functions of this position
in a safe, accurate, neat, and timely fashion and to make and
evaluate the results of judgments and decisions.
9. Ability to drive a car.
10. High tolerance for continuing stressful situations.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions in the work environment. This environment may be expected to include: moderate noise, frequent interruptions, and frequent movement from inside to outside with exposure to elements, stairs, children, moving vehicles, and duty hours before sunrise or after sunset.