Assistant Superintendent

Position Type:
Administration/ Asst Superintendent

Date Posted:
5/6/2025

Location:
Central Office

Date Available:
07/01/2025

Closing Date:
until filled

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Job Description
SHAWNEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Job Title: Assistant Superintendent
Reports To: Superintendent
Site: Central Office

Qualifications
Credentials: Must have drivers license and acceptable driving record.
Education: Bachelors Degree Required; Masters Degree in School Administration and/or Curriculum

Training or Experience Required: Central Office and Building level administrative experience.

Job Summary: To administer and supervise the personnel/instruction departments, to promote the overall efficiency of the school system, and to provide leadership for the best student educational programs and services. Develops policies and procedures. Uses discretion, ingenuity and independent judgment in resolving problems. Participates as a member of the Superintendents Leadership Team.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

1. Communication Skills (oral, written, or business): Basic communication skills to exchange information, give/receive instructions and respond to inquiries. Includes filling out forms. Communicates in clear, grammatically correct English. In addition, composes correspondence; trains and directs others and provides complex instructions; conducts interviews. In addition, must use creativity; makes public speeches or presentations or provides complex letters or reports.
2. Data Recording/Record Keeping: Performs data recording/record keeping operations determining what changes need to be made to existing records, including computerized records. OCAS Coding understanding. Legal parameters of school budget and accounting principles.
3. Has regular contact with other school districts and the public. Must be able to answer information requests from the public interpreting and translating facts and information, explaining situations and concerns and advising them of alternative courses of action. Must be able to handle complaints and deal with excessively rude or irate parents and callers. Must use tact and diplomacy, independent judgment, and problem solving. Makes formal presentations; interprets policies and procedures based on experience.

Essential Job Functions (Performance Expectations):
Administrator Management; Instructional Leadership; Professional Skills; Community Relations; and Administrative Products:

1. Serves in the absence of the Superintendent as the chief administrative officer of the district.
2. Plans and administers an efficient system of recruiting, hiring, training, supervising, and evaluating all personnel.
3. Develops, establishes, and refines the general program for administrative services, personnel, curriculum and instruction, and pupil personnel.
4. Plans and directs a program for selection and assignment of the best-qualified personnel.
5. Recommends all assignments, transfers, dismissals and promotions.
6. Certifies classifications and salaries to the business department.
7. Maintains adequate records of personnel.
8. Prepares and administers departmental budgets.
9. Keeps informed of and interpret all laws, regulations, statutes, rules, and policies affecting the school district.
10. Prepares drafts of needed Board policies, administrative rules, and status reports for the superintendent's review and action.
11. Coordinates and supervises the work of all faculty and personnel within the personnel and instruction department.
12. Attends regular meetings of the superintendent's staff and serves actively to improve communication, cooperation, and planning.
13. Communicates to the superintendent the requirements and needs of the district as perceived by staff members.
14. Remains abreast of developments and innovations in the field by reading current literature, attending professional and association meetings and conferences; researches current educational developments and problems of mutual interest with others in the field.
15. Assists in the determination of types of programs needed by the schools and makes appropriate recommendations.
16. Counsels and advises applicants, probationary and career personnel.
17. Processes and updates all certification renewals and personnel reports.
18. Makes timely postings and announcements for applicants and employees to comply with district and state requirements.
19. Plans, develops, and revises personnel handbooks in accordance with local/state legislation for submission to the Board.
20. Reviews and monitors collective bargaining contracts; and serves on the district's bargaining teams.
21. Maintains work calendar schedules for employees and interprets employee leave policy requests and implementation of contract language.
22. Organizes and assists in professional development processes.
23. Assumes leadership in overseeing Curriculum/Instructional development programs for the district.
24. Works cooperatively with leaders of other administrative departments in integrating and coordinating individual efforts into a unified program for the district.
25. Serves upon assignment by the superintendent as a resource person to various principals, directors, and coordinators in the district, and, as appropriate, as head of such departments
26. Accepts from the superintendent responsibilities as the superintendent chooses to delegate, and assumes responsibility for discharging them.
27. Attends Board meetings, and attends and presides over such other meetings as the superintendent designates.
28. Performs other duties and assumes other responsibilities at the request of the Superintendent.

Supervision exercised: Supervises a large staff of employees. Has responsibility to recommend hiring/firing; develop training, and to evaluate employees. Supervises building level principals, curriculum directors, athletic/activities director and staff members designated by the superintendent or board of education.

Complies with Shawnee's Mission Statement in which students are to be provided with skills, knowledge and attitudes to become lifelong learners, complex thinkers, and responsible citizens in an ever changing global society.

Physical/Mental Requirements and Working Conditions:

1. Must possess a valid drivers license and have an acceptable driving record.
2. Must have the dexterity to operate keyboards, computers, copy machines, and other office/instructional machines.
3. Must be able to communicate in person, on the phone, and before large audiences.
4. Must be able to get around the various sites.

Terms of Employment: Length of the work year and hours of employment shall be those established by the Superintendent (260 day contract). Salary established by the Superintendent and Board of Education.

Start Date: July 1, 2025 or as soon as available

Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Shawnee Board Policy on evaluation of personnel.

FLSA Status: Exempt

Revised: May 5, 2025