Assistant Principal

**Duties**:

- Lead and manage the referral, evaluation, and eligibility processes for students with disabilities, ensuring adherence to all legal and policy requirements.
- Establish DoDEA educator performance elements and evaluate teacher work.
- Initiate communications between school administration, students, teachers, parents, the local community, and base offices.
- Serve as the responsible officer for all government-owned or leased property assigned to the school.
- Gather and analyze student achievement and other related data to inform the decision-making process, especially regarding special education.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Requirement.
- Proof of U.S. Citizenship required.
- Direct deposit of pay is required.
- Two-year trial or probationary period may be required.
- Two-year supervisory probation period may be required.
- This position requires a Tier 3 (T3) investigation with Childcare Checks since its duties require interaction with children and youth under the age of eighteen (18) years of age.
- You may be required to sign a transportation agreement.
- You will be required to sign a mobility agreement, be available for worldwide placement, and be willing to rotate to any DoDEA location.
- Individuals hired from the Continental United States (CONUS) and their family members (who are US citizens) are required to obtain Official Passports prior to departure to the overseas area.
- Individuals assigned to Italy, England, or Korea, are required to obtain a visa to enter these countries.
- A secret security clearance is required.

**Qualifications**:

- Current Competitive Service Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Civilian Employee
- Current Excepted Service Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Employee

**Minimum Education Requirements for an Assistant Principal (Special Education)**:
A Master's degree in Educational Administration/Educational Leadership or a Master's degree reflecting 30 semester hours of graduate level course work, of the required 30 semester hours of graduate level course work, a minimum of 20 of those semester hours must be Educational Administration/Educational Leadership.

In addition to the requirements listed above, you must also meet the requirements listed below:
**General Experience Requirements for an Assistant Principal (Special Education)**:
A minimum of three years of successful classroom teaching, specialist, or special education experience at the Pre-K - 12 level is required.
**Professional Licensure/Certification Requirement**: Applicants must be currently certified or certifiable under the current DoDEA standards as an Assistant Principal, Special Education (category 1029).

You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:

- Human Capital Management
- Instructional Program Administration
- Learning and Program Evaluation
- Partnering

**Education**:
**FOREIGN EDUCATION**: Foreign Degrees and Course Work from Non-accredited Institutions. Foreign Degrees and Course Work from Non-accredited Institutions. Credits or degrees earned from a foreign college or university must be evaluated prior to acceptance. Three evaluation procedures are acceptable:
a. The work must be evaluated and interpreted by a current member of National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES). This website provides a list of current organizations who can perform your evaluation. You must select and work directly with one of these organizations.

b. The foreign institution that awarded the degree is on a list endorsed by a regionally accredited university or on a list endorsed by a state department of education for the purpose of teacher certification in that state (this procedure will require an English translation of the transcript and a copy of the document awarding the degree, together with an authenticated list produced by an American university or a state department of education); and

c. The work may be evaluated by the graduate division of a regionally accredited university and declared the equivalent of similar undergraduate or graduate work in a U.S. institution.

Graduates of non-accredited institutions may have their undergraduate work validated by admittance to graduate school and completion of a minimum of 5 SH of credit in a regionally accredited graduate college.

**Additional information**:

- Applicants must comply with the Exceptional Family Member Program requirements as outlined in the DoD Instruction 1315.19.
- Pay retention may be offered to selected applicants for positions at overseas locations. Pay retention will not be offered as an incentive for employees moving between overseas positions.
- Applicants who have family members with special medical needs should ensure that prior to accepting a position overseas their family members' medical n