Job Description

The administrator holds the whole, with overall responsibility for the effective day to day operations and long-term success of the school. The administrator provides collaborative leadership to the faculty, board, and parents and serves as the primary liaison among them. The administrator leads the administrative team and delegates tasks as needed to ensure that the school’s daily operations and short term and long term goals are effectively executed. In consultation with the faculty and the board, as appropriate, develops, implements, and continuously improves policies, processes, and plans that support the School’s mission, vision, goals, and daily operations.

Qualifications:

• Experience with overseeing day to day school operations
• Effective delegation and team management skills
• Experience managing school logistics, including enrollment and operating budget
• Ability to navigate legal aspects of school operations
• Previous experience with overseeing fundraising and donor cultivation
• Previous teaching experience in a classroom setting (Waldorf preferred)
• Growth mindset in helping support the strategic vision of the school
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills including community engagement, team building, motivation and conflict resolution
• Proficiency in utilizing cloud-based collaboration tools such as Google Drive for document management, sharing, and collaboration and experience with Microsoft Office Suite

Responsibilities:

• Supports board, administrative team, and faculty as needed
• Coordinates the development and achievement of annual fundraising goals and works with the fundraising coordinator to foster relationships with higher level donors
• Ability to lead community-wide events and serve as ambassador for the school
• Oversees admissions and enrollment matters
• Collaborates with the Curriculum Director on all student discipline and parent body issues
• Responsible for managing all legal, regulatory and compliance issues, maintaining professional memberships, and financial obligations of the school, with the support of the board and the business manager
• Attends board meetings, committee meetings, and faculty meetings and contributes to the agendas as needed
• Hires and dismisses the administrative team
• Manages contract negotiations
• Works with board treasurer to prepare and disseminate the Annual Report by the end of the school year
• Responsible for nurturing good relations with neighbors
• Maintain and enforce employee, student, and parent handbook
• Point of escalation for policies related to employee and student handbook as well as contract related issues
• Collaborates with the Curriculum Director on the master schedule for the school year
• Collaborates with the curriculum director, faculty and board to develop and implement a long-term strategic vision for the school.
• Maintain relations with area Waldorf schools and community schools.
• Offers administrative support for new program development

Please submit a resume and cover letter to boardpresident@siskiyouschool.org.

About the Siskiyou School

Learn more about us at www.siskiyouschool.org.

Now in its 17th year, the Siskiyou School is a vibrant Kindergarten through 8th grade Waldorf school with a staff of 29 full and part-time teachers. We are on a beautiful, well-developed two-acre campus in a residential neighborhood just a ten-minute bike ride from downtown Ashland. Classes range in size from 18-26.

Thanks to our board’s consistently sound management, we are in a good place financially. In keeping with our founders’ intent to make our school affordable for as many as possible, our school’s tuition remains on the low end, even though we offer a full program and support a full staff. Additionally, we maintain a robust tuition assistance/remission program that allows thirty percent of our students to attend.

Each year the faculty, in conjunction with the board and administration, sets new goals for the school. Four years ago, for example, our focus was on building our last full-sized classroom; that was achieved in the summer of 2019. As a school community we have always been good at finding ways to grow and move forward together to serve the children at the center of our work.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $60,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work setting:

• In-person
• Private school

Ability to Relocate:

• Ashland, OR 97520: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person