2025 Principal pool

POSITION OVERVIEW
Please note this posting is for the School Principal position pool meaning while our team has not yet identified openings for this position we will interview potential candidates for future possible openings. The interview day for this position will be November 4 2021. Priority applications will be considered on a rolling basis from the date the role is posted through October 15 2021. Please only apply to this role if you meet the specific requirements outlined at the bottom of the posting. 

At KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools the School Principals primary role is to be the instructional leader of their building. The School Principal drives highquality academic and school environment outcomes for their students and staff. In the event our organization has an opening we would select a School Principal from the School Principal pool to be a successor to a sitting School Principal

The School Principal should spend about 7075% of their time daily on instructional leadership specifically leading and developing their administration team and their teachers to improve outcomes for student achievement. The School Principal builds lasting and sustainable systems for the ongoing development of their team. Typically a School Principal manages their team of Assistant School Principal a schoolbased operations leader school counselors and other teacher leaders at their school. They report directly to the Chief Schools Officer and work closely with a variety of stakeholders including the shared services team for KIPP Jacksonville families etc.

School Principal are visionsetters and are skilled at building a culture for their team that has commitments for social justice and educational equity for all students that mirror the regions vision and goals.

As a schoolbased administrator this position is yearround and performs duties as assigned by their manager. Typical hours for schoolbased leaders vary Monday through Friday and there may be occasional meetings special school events or commitments that fall outside of typical business hours and days. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Be the face of the school its biggest cheerleader and loudest advocate

2. Set ambitious schoolwide vision and goals aligned with the KIPP region that lead students to have choice upon graduation 

3. Plan and prioritize time and resources to achieve annual goals

4. Cultivate a diverse highpotential school leadership pipeline (from teacher leader to AP to successor) and develop leadership team members by teaching and insisting that they are true owners of the work and coaching and assigning stretch activities

5. Model expectations for leaders teachers and students on schoolwide practices for a positive learning culture

   • Builds a joyful academically excellent environment

   • Works to build relationships based in trust with and among all stakeholders

   • Works to build restorative practices for all stakeholders

6. Develop systems and structures to hire and retain diverse highlyeffective staff

   • Work proactively with the talent team to find missionaligned staff members

   • Actively retain highlyeffective staff and work to build capacity of those in need of improvement

7. Build own and school staffs knowledge and expertise in effective instructional design and academic standards

   • Develop teachers conceptual understanding of what students must know and be able to do and what instructional methods drive student mastery

   • Develop knowledge of how standards map to curriculum and assessment

8. Develop teachers to provide rigorous and high quality instruction

   • Lead analysis of and develop teachers ability to analyze student data to identify strategies that will move students toward mastery

   • Regularly observe and coach instructional coaches to ensure they are providing highimpact actionable and bitesized feedback to teachers on a weekly basis

   • Ensure teachers can collaborate analyze their practice and their student data and adjust instruction in content teams 

   • Lead wholeschool professional development workshops that drive highestimpact improvements in teacher practice

9. Cultivate School Principals own success and sustainability by engaging lifelines and renewing to get stronger

   • Be a lifelong learner

   • Be an active member of of the School Principal Team sharing best practices and learning with each other

Qualifications :

QUALIFICATIONS/MINDSETS:

• Student Focus: Belief that all students regardless of background have the ability to go to and through college; demonstrated commitment to the schools unique community

• Direction Setting: Ability to set direction across an entire school and motivate others to action

• Performance Management: Demonstrated student achievement results from teachers and leaders that he/she manages and coaches

• Talent Development: Demonstrated success in developing leadership capacity in others

• Cultural Competence: Demonstrated ability to create inclusive environments that honors and supports a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives  

• Instructional Leadership: Adept at data analysis; ability to extract meaningful insights across schoolwide data

• Instructional Leadership: Expertise in what the  schoolwide academic standards and state assessments require of students knowledge and skills to demonstrate mastery; able to translate student mastery requirements into instructional plans and strategies 

• Instructional Leadership: Deep understanding of appropriate application and differentiation of highleverage instructional strategies (e.g. engagement pacing active monitoring etc.) based on comprehension of child development and pedagogy

• Instructional Leadership: Command of instructional design and the benefits and tradeoffs of school design decisions in driving student achievement

• Achievement Orientation: Demonstrated resilience and focus on student outcomes

• Persistence Keeps persevering despite challenges

• SolutionsOriented Addresses problems from an active posture to find a way or make one

• SelfAwareness Able to diagnose impact of self in various contexts and situations and adjust accordingly

• Openness to Feedback Ability to take feedback while remaining emotionally constant and adjust as needed 

REQUIREMENTS

• Possesses a deep commitment to both racial and educational equity; supports the building of an organization that reflects the community KIPP serves; holds self and others on team accountable for centering equity 

• KIPP Jacksonville believes that our staff will represent our core valueshigh expectations a growth mindset commitment to team trust joy and sustainability. We search for established educators who embody them.

• Demonstrated ability to drive academic results directly and through others 

• Demonstrated people leadership management and coaching experience with a passion for leading adults

• A minimum of five (5) years of teaching experience with at least two years of that experience in a grade level chair content chair department chair or equivalent teacher leader role

• A minimum of four (4) years of experience as an assistant principal or equivalent role

• Masters Degree

HIGHLY PREFERRED

• Five (5) years of experience as an assistant school principal or equivalent role OR two (2) years of experience as a school principal or equivalent role

• Pathway to certification for administration in Florida

• Familiarity with Florida Administrative Code and Florida Statutes pertaining to K12 schools

COMPENSATION

• The starting salary for this role is typically $85000

• Free individual health benefits (including medical dental and vision)***

• Free individual shortterm and longterm disability insurance***

• 403b retirement program with a company match***

• Professional development
  Offerings are subject to change year to year. 

Additional Information :

APPLY

Please complete an application and upload a resume via our job board. No applicants will be considered that submit resumes through other job postings. Link to job board here: ; 

Please note in the application if you have a school preference based on location. 

If youre a current KIPP Jax team member you should:

1) Inform your current manager of your interest in the role and

2) Complete the online application

QUESTIONS
If you have questions about positions at KIPP Jacksonville please email LaShawnda Anderson at Please understand that resumes and/or cover letters are not accepted via email and you will be redirected to apply via the website.

KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools is committed to a policy of equal treatment for all individuals applying for employment at our schools. KIPP Jacksonville does not discriminate on the basis of race color gender handicap age religion sexual orientation or national or ethnic origin.