Job Description:
Salary Range:
$60,000.00 - $68,500.00 USD annually.
As part of Arizona State University’s charter to provide access and excellence, ASU Preparatory Academy (ASU Prep) shares this commitment by demonstrating all students can achieve at the highest levels, regardless of their background. To scale our current impact, ASU Prep is advancing a major expansion program taking fundamental responsibility for the communities we serve.
The Senior Dean of Students assists the site Principals to promote and ensure a positive school culture, high academic achievement and a safe and orderly environment for all learners. The Senior Dean of Students provides and supervises in a fair and consistent manner an effective discipline system consistent with the philosophy, values and mission of ASU Prep.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Master’s Degree in Education or equivalent subject, required.
1-3 years of successful teaching experience
1-3 years of progressive leadership experience
Arizona Administrative Certification, preferred
Experience in facilities management and emergency preparedness, preferred
Active AZ Department of Public Safety (DPS) IVP Fingerprint Clearance Card.
Any equivalent combination of experience, training and/or education from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities may be considered.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Create and maintain the annual school safety plan with your Principal, ensuring proper maintenance and security measures are in place. Plans should often be reviewed and modified as necessary.
Maintain the highest standards of student safety and conduct. Ensuring to enforce discipline measures as necessary in accordance with the School Committee policy and the students’ rights to due process. Documenting discipline matters in accordance with charter policy and state reporting requirements.
Oversee and evaluate the campus safety team using the appropriate instrument
Collaborates with School Resource Officer (SRO) in implementation of the schools Emergency Operating Procedure.
Collaborate with Campus Facilities Coordinator to ensure maintenance of campus facilities.
Supports in truancy prevention and collaborates in attendance interventions.
Collaborates with student support team to lead preventative workshops based on discipline data.
Ensure safety, appropriate conduct and general welfare of students.
Creates community relationships with students and families by meeting with parents regularly regarding their student and to review discipline concerns timely.
Maintain positive, cooperative and mutually supportive relationships with staff, administration, families, students, and representatives of resource agencies within the community.
Monitor student progress, patterns of attendance, and discipline for monthly reporting.
Create and maintain a process to improve student attendance.
Participate in the classification, promotion, and/or retention of students.
Serve as campus evening supervisor on a rotational basis with other administrative personnel.
Additional duties may be assigned as necessary.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
Directly supervises employees. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include decisions related to selection, performance appraisal, discipline and salary recommendations.
Build strong and empowered teams by providing direction, delegation, counsel, mentoring and expertise to individual team leads, while retaining overall responsibility and accountability for results.
Promote and encourage the development, training and promotion of staff members to ensure the perpetuation of a professional and competent workforce.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Knowledge of Arizona Department of Education School Preparedness Standards
Knowledge of the Downtown Phoenix Community as relevant to the students, families, and staff the site serves.
Excellent verbal and written communication.
Ability to communicate and apply leadership skills within a shared decision-making model.
Demonstrated ability to uphold and enforce provided guidelines, policies and procedures.
Demonstrated leadership in establishing and maintaining excellent working relationships
Demonstrated knowledge with a school-wide discipline program.
Demonstrated knowledge with an ethnically diverse student population.
Ability to articulate, represent professional demeanor, and ability to take initiative.
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 the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand and talk or hear and sometimes walk and sit. The employee must use hands, arms and fingers to input data, handle, feel or reach. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may occasionally push or lift up to 35 lbs. such as boxes, supplies, etc. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision such as to read handwritten or typed material, and the ability to adjust focus, close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.
LOCATION:
Downtown Phoenix
TRAVEL:
Occasional travel may be required for site visits, meetings, trainings and/or conferences. Locations may vary and may require overnight stays.
This job description is subject to change at any time.
What about learning drives us to do more than deliver the lesson? Maybe we’re overachievers. Or maybe we just know what real impact looks like. Each one of us has seen passion win over fear, vision become relentless focus and belief in human potential make it all the way to the finish line.
Our mission is to design new models for educational success and raise academic achievement for all learners. Are you ready to find a career with a company whose mission, vision, and values align with yours? Can you see yourself fitting into this mission with us?
https://asuprep.asu.edu/careers/