SUBSTITUTE BUILDING ADMINISTRATOR 2025-26

POSITION OBJECTIVE:

Bellevue School District Substitute Buildng administrators are expected to be stewards of the District's vision, mission, goals and instructional initiatives. Building administrators are instructional leaders and are expected to spend the majority of their time, energy, and talents focused on the quality of education being offered at their schools. An instructional leader is one who understands the tremendous complexity of teaching and learning, and devotes the majority of the professional day planning and implementing initiatives to improve the quality of education in all aspects of their school. Instructional leaders observe instruction and provide ongoing feedback that is candid and powerful to improve student learning.

COMMITMENT TO EQUITY:

The Bellevue School District is committed to a diverse workforce representative of our students, one that embraces and models cultural competency as an international community.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: (These duties are a representative sample; position assignments may vary.)

• Establishing and maintaining a positive learning environment for all.
• Providing for school safety.
• Assisting instructional staff with alignment of curriculum, instruction and assessment with state and local district learning goals.
• Monitoring, assisting and evaluating effective instruction and assessment practices.
• Managing both staff and fiscal resources to support student achievement and legal responsibilities.
• Partnering with the school community to promote student learning.
• Demonstrating commitment to closing the achievement gap.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills with all constituencies.
• Visible and supportive of all curricular and extra-curricular programs.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS:

• Reports directly to and is supervised by the Superintendent or Designee

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE: (positions in this class typically require):

Required
• Possess or qualify for immediate issuance of a valid Washington State Administrative credential.
• Have at least three years of demonstrated successful teaching experience and at least one year of educational leadership and/or supervision experience.
Preferred
• Specific training as a school administrator and a master’s degree, preferred.
• Training and/or experience working with students with a variety of educational abilities, backgrounds, skills and cultures; including: special needs, English language learners, special education, and/or “at-risk”.

KNOWLEDGE: (position requirements at entry):

• Current experience, knowledge, and commitment to the needs of children; young adults and/or maturing adolescents.

SKILLS: (position requirements at entry):

• Provides positive, collaborative and visionary leadership to staff, students and the community.
• Builds, creates and maintains a culture that fosters collaborative relationships with students, staff and the community.
• Models exemplary professionalism.
• Expresses and communicates ideas clearly for different audiences in oral presentation and in written communication.
• Ability to provide appropriate and innovative supervision and leadership to the instructional program.
• Ability to seek relevant and current data, analyze and research complex information.
• Ability to reach logical conclusions, make high quality decisions, and set priorities.
• Successful experience responding to and engaging in a diverse multi-cultural and multi-racial community.
• Successful experience involving others in solving problems and guiding them to accomplishment and manage conflict in a positive and professional manner.
• Successful experience as a strong facilitator and skilled at group process; positive attitude, sense of collegiality.
• Successful experience in leading discussions and facilitating meetings.
• The most competitive candidates are able to speak a language other than English fluently.
• Other criteria may be established by the selection committee.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Positions in this class typically require: stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, finger dexterity, grasping, talking, hearing, seeing, and repetitive motions.

Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:

These are on-call positions. The number of days or hours that a substitute works is dependent upon the number of building administrators who are absent on any given day and per the request of the building administrator. No specific guarantee of work is offered. Hourly rate for 2025-26 is $80.00. This position is not eligible for benefits.

NOTE:

The above job description is intended to represent only the key areas of responsibilities; specific position assignments will vary depending on the business needs of the department.

Verification of identity and United States work authorization must be completed. The successful candidate for this position must be fingerprinted. Employment is contingent upon clearance by Washington State Patrol and Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Bellevue School District does not discriminate in any programs or activities on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, honorably discharged veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, homelessness, immigration or citizenship status, the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, neurodivergence, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts of America and other designated youth groups. The following employees have been designated to handle questions and complaints of alleged discrimination:

Civil Rights, Racial Discrimination, and Gender Expression or Identity Discrimination: Civil Rights/Nondiscrimination Compliance Coordinator Nancy Pham, (425) 456-4040 or phamn@bsd405.org.

Sex-based Discrimination, including Sexual Harassment: Title IX Coordinator: Jeff Lowell, (425) 456-4010 or lowellj@bsd405.org.

Disability Discrimination:
Section 504/ADA Coordinator: Kerince Bowen, (425) 456-4168 or bowenk@bsd405.org

Mailing address for all three: 12111 NE 1st Street, Bellevue, WA 98005.

Members of the public with disabilities who have specific concerns about the effectiveness of the District’s communications to them should contact Janine Thorn, Chief Communications and Engagement Officer, at 425-456-4000 or thornj@bsd405.org.

Mailing address for all three: 12111 NE 1st Street, Bellevue, WA 98005.

Salary : $80