Van Buren Tech Principal

Title:

Van Buren Tech Principal

Reports To:

Director of Career & Technical Education

Job Goal(s):

The Principal’s primary role is to promote the success of all students at Van Buren Tech, through instructional leadership, quality building management and effective supervision.  

Qualifications:

Education:

Master’s Degree in School Administration Preferred

Certification: 

School Administrator Certification Required Vocational Certification Preferred

Work Experience:

Three Years of Successful School Administrative Experience Required

CTE School Administrative Experience Preferred  

Skills:

• Possess excellent interpersonal and customer service skills with the ability to handle difficult situations with diplomacy and tact.
• Possess superior multi-tasking, time management and organizational skills, with strong attention to detail
• Show positive energy, integrity, and ability to work as both a team leader and member
• Possess strong organizational skills
• Possesses a growth mindset

Essential Job Functions:

• Provide leadership in the development, supervision, and evaluation of instructional and support staff. 
• Closely monitor teaching practices to ensure rigor and best practice occurs in all classrooms.
• Advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth.
• Ensuring management of the organization, operation, and resources for a safe, efficient, and an effective learning environment.
• Collaborating with families, home schools, business, industry, and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources.
• Foster county-wide collaboration in the education of CTE students.
• Acting with integrity, fairness, and an ethical manner.
• Staying abreast of changes and developments in the profession by attending professional workshops, meetings, conferences, and reading professional journals/publications and discussing concerns and issues of mutual interest with others in the field.
• Attend county Principals' meetings & communicate regularly with all stakeholders via a variety of mediums.
• Continuously identify areas for professional growth and seek professional development opportunities to enhance performance in identified areas.   
• Provide staff supervision relative to Van Buren ISD and Van Buren Tech policies, staff schedules, evaluation, and professional development. Conduct observations of professional staff members and programs within the Physical Technology Cluster.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Perform additional tasks, responsibilities, and duties as assigned by the Director of Career & Technical Education.
• Coordinate building-wide professional development opportunities.
• Organize and lead building-wide staff meetings.
• Valid driver's license required.

Terms of Employment: As per master agreement and provisions established by the Van Buren Board of Education. 

This posting and our online application can be found on the Van Buren ISD’s website at www.vbisd.org under Employment.  If you do not have access to a computer with internet access, you may use a computer at VBISD by calling 269-539-5218. 

Position is open until filled.

In-house staff must fill out the online internal application.