Assistant Principal-Girls Campus

Organizational Overview: 

Notre Dame School of Milwaukee is a Catholic School founded by the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Milwaukee, WI.  The school was founded in 1996 as Notre Dame Middle School, an all girls 5th-8th grade middle school to serve Latinas on the southside of Milwaukee. Today Notre Dame School of Milwaukee is a Grade K3-8 Catholic school sponsored by the School Sisters of Notre Dame. It has a co-education primary school serving boys and girls in a Spanish and English dual language model.  NDSM addresses the urgent, critical needs of the community through student-focused education.  We currently serve over 690 students across three campuses and we have both an all-boys and all-girls middle school, a co-ed primary school, and an Early Childhood Education program.  To learn more please visit our website at www.notredamemke.org. 

Mission Statement: 

Notre Dame School of Milwaukee, a Catholic school sponsored by the School Sisters of Notre Dame, challenges our students to reach their full potential as individuals, empowering them to direct their God-given gifts toward transforming their community.

Vision Statement: 

With deep faith and courage, Notre Dame School of Milwaukee boldly addresses the urgent, critical needs of the community by providing an education focused on student and school growth through quality and innovation. 

Reports To:  Building Principal

Areas of Responsibility: Academics

Position Overview:  The assistant principal is part of the school leadership team and works with the principal to fulfill the mission of the Catholic School to create a positive learning environment for students, faculty, and staff. 

Responsibilities

• Assists the principal in the overall administration of the school and assumes leadership of the school in the absence of the principal
• Supports and upholds the philosophy of Catholic education and the mission of the school
• Commitment to the belief that all students can learn at high levels by establishing and promoting high standards and expectations for all students and staff for academic performance and responsibility for behavior and learning
• Communicates effectively with students, parents, and staff
• Demonstrates the ability to be flexible, resilient, and adaptable to changing priorities
• Promotes a school environment that is safe and conducive to learning by supporting a student culture with high behavioral expectations
• Supports the principal with teacher coaching and teacher classroom management
• Supports the principal with reviewing teacher units/lesson plans
• Assist with campus-specific professional development and school-wide professional development
• Supports with the operational and logistical planning and execution of summer school 
• Assists with the hiring process 
• Collaborate with business office staff and other campus staff
• Manages attendance (attendance contracts)
• Manages behavior probation (probation contracts)
• Support with arrival and dismissal procedures
• Organizes campus-specific pep rallies, celebrations, assemblies
• Organizes masses and creates the mass calendar
• Collaborates with the social worker/counselor on attendance/tardy issues
• Coordinates substitute teacher coverage
• Provides announcement support
• Supports with lunch/recess by being present
• Assists with the creation of student and staff schedules
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Education/Experience:  Practicing Catholic, Current teaching certification, Master’s degree in education with licensure as a principal.  

Knowledge, Skills, and Other Abilities:

• Time management
• Written and oral communication skills
• Commitment to Catholic Education and Gospel values

Work Environment

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be mobile; walk; use hands; talk, hear, or smell. The employee is frequently required to sit; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to ten pounds.  

   Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations

   may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.