Job Description
Job Title: Bilingual Elementary Assistant Principal
Job-Type: Full-time
Contract Days: 220 Days
Reports to: Campus Principal
Company Website: http://www.waysideschools.org
Salary: $72,000
• Additional Stipends may be applicable to this position
Job Goal
At Wayside Schools, we seek staff with diverse backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, talents, and ideas to meet the needs of our growing body of scholars and dynamic programming. At Wayside, we know that leaders who possess specific traits and competencies are more likely to be successful in their roles and in their service to staff, scholars and families: passion for our mission, a deep connection to issues of social justice, a commitment to all scholars we serve and a focus on personal growth and development.
ABOUT WAYSIDE SCHOOLS: Wayside Schools is an open-enrollment, tuition-free Pre-K3-12th grade public charter school network that provides over 1,900 scholars across its five South Austin schools with a rigorous International Baccalaureate education. Since 2012, Wayside schools has striven to empower historically underserved scholars, providing them with the instructional experiences, academic skills, intellectual habits, and social and emotional competencies needed to become graduates from four-year colleges and universities, providing them with the access and opportunities they need to narrate their own futures and positively impact and empower the families and communities to which they belong
Qualifications:
Education/Certification
• Bachelor's Degree (required)
• Bilingual English/Spanish (required)
• Master's Degree in an education-related field (preferred)
• Administrative Certification (preferred)
Experience:
• A minimum of 3 years of teaching experience in a low-income school
• A minimum of 2 years of experience serving in a campus leadership role such as coach, mentor teacher, team leader or curriculum support
• A proven track record of success managing school leaders to achieve ambitious goals; previous experience supporting the full array of responsibilities and challenges faced by school principals preferred but not required
• Outstanding leadership and management skills, particularly as it relates to building teams, working through others, promoting collaboration, managing conflict, goal setting, and holding people accountable
• An entrepreneurial spirit and demonstrated success in building a program, department or organization
• The flexibility needed to accommodate the breadth and depth of responsibilities and priorities
• Outstanding written, speaking, and organizational skills, including excellence in backwards planning long-term goals, accountability, and progress monitoring systems
• Ability to interact with a broad range of stakeholders with different interests and needs
• Deep commitment to improving the lives of scholars from low-income communities
• Demonstrated passion for the mission, vision, and values of Wayside Schools
• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Google suite