Deputy Superintendent - Sumter School District

SUMTER SCHOOL DISTRICT

Job Description

POSITION: Deputy Superintendent

FLSA CLASS: Exempt

DAYS: 233

QUALIFICATIONS: Master's Degree or higher from an accredited college or university

A valid South Carolina teaching certificate

South Carolina Certification as a principal, supervisor, and/or superintendent

A minimum of five (5) years of successful classroom teaching experience

A minimum of five (5) years of experience as an administrator

Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Superintendent and the Sumter District Two Board of Trustees may find appropriate and acceptable.

Job Duties

• Serves in the absence of the Superintendent as the chief administrative officer for the district.
• Plans and administers an efficient system for supervising and evaluating all personnel in the Superintendent's Cabinet
• Provides leadership for the Division of Student Support Services in order to develop a current, effective instructional program.
• Assists in the preparation and administration of the district's budget.
• Assumes responsibility for handling parent complaints and concerns.
• Keeps informed of and interprets all laws, regulations, statutes, rules and policies, affecting the school district.
• Attends School Board meetings and makes presentations, as directed by the Superintendent.
• Attends and presides over such other meetings as the Superintendent designates.
• Prepares drafts of needed Board policies, administrative rules, and status reports for the Superintendent's review and action.
• Oversees the development of strategies that address students' strengths and weaknesses as staff members and analyze results for assessments.
• Works with others consistently in a cooperative and respectful manner.
• Performs all other duties and responsibilities as designated by the Superintendent.
  
  

Standards Required To Perform Essential Job Functions

• Physical Requirements: Requires sedentary work that involves walking or standing some of the time and involves exerting up to 10 pounds of force on a recurring basis or routine keyboard operations. Requires mobility.
• Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable functional, structural or compositional characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.
• Interpersonal Communications: Requires the ability of speaking and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving assignments and/or directions to subordinates and receiving assignments and/or direction from supervisor.
• Language Ability: Requires ability to read a variety of laws, policies and procedures, technical and professional studies, reference books and publications, etc. Requires the ability to prepare performance appraisals, policies, strategic plans, complex reports, schedules, correspondence, etc. with proper format, punctuation, spelling and grammar, using all parts of speech. Requires the ability to speak with and before others with poise, voice control and confidence.
• Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical, schedule or diagrammatic form; to deal with several abstract and concrete variables. Requires the ability to apply influence systems in managing a diverse staff; to learn and understand complex principles and techniques; to make independent judgments in absence of supervision; to acquire knowledge of topics related to primary occupation. Must have the ability to comprehend and interpret received information.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow and give verbal and written instructions; to counsel and teach employees; to teach, discipline and counsel students. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently with persons of varying educational backgrounds and in a variety of technical and/or professional languages including education administration, curriculum development, budgeting, personnel, building maintenance, grant administration, public relations, etc.
• Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to add and subtract totals, to multiply and divide, to utilize mathematical formulas, to determine percentages and decimals and to determine time. Must be able to use practical applications of algebra and statistics.
• Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape, and visually read various information.
• Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes using office machinery; to operate motor vehicles.
• Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items, keyboards, office equipment, control knobs, buttons, switches, catches, etc. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.
• Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate colors and shades of color.
• Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress when confronted with emergency situations, volatile situations or tight deadlines. Worker may be subject to danger or risk to a slight degree and to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.
• Physical Communications: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words; hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear).
  
  

TERMS: 233 days. The Division of Personnel will establish salary and work year based upon the recommendation and approval by the Superintendent and approved by the Board of Trustees.

EVALUATION: Performance of this job will be evaluated annually in compliance with the Board's policy on evaluation and professional personnel.

SUMTER SCHOOL DISTRICT IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Revised 4/21/2026