School Principal

**Summary**:
**About the Position**:
This position is located in the DoDEA Europe East District, Stuttgart High School.

Federal employees in Stuttgart, Germany are currently entitled to receive a 42% Post Allowance (COLA) in addition to the base salary.

**This job is open to**:
**The public**:

- U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.

**Internal to an agency**:

- Current federal employees of the hiring agency that posted the job announcement.

**Veterans**:

- Veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces or a spouse, widow, widower or parent of a veteran, who may be eligible for derived preference

**Clarification from the agency**:
**Duties**:

- Use student achievement data and related data to make decisions regarding the school improvement plan, teacher professional development requirements, and programmatic changes.
- Establish and maintain a professional learning community for staff and a positive school climate for students.
- Explain human resources policies to include transfers, benefits, and grievances/appeals.
- Present briefings relative to school policy to community leaders, local national authorities and visiting dignitaries.
- Serve as the responsible officer for all government-owned or leased property assigned to the school.
- Direct timely and accurate preparation and maintenance of pupil records, office files, schedules, statistical and other reports, registers, work orders, and expenditure of funds.
- Inform supervisor of education deficiencies, critical issues, and emergencies.
- Take appropriate action on pupil discipline and behavior problems to include providing students with counseling.

**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 period may be required.
- Two-year supervisory probationary 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.
- This position requires you to submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE450) upon entry, and annually thereafter.
- 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.
- 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 a Principal**:
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 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 a Principal**:A minimum of three years of successful classroom teaching, specialist, or other professional educatorexperience at the Pre-K -12 level is required.

**Specialized Experience Requirements for a Principal**:A minimum of two years appropriate experience (elementary and/or secondary) in a staff or supervisory position which clearly demonstrated the ability to administer school educational programs and to effectively supervise educators and support personnel. No more than one year of experience in positions that did not involve actual school administration will be credited as specialized experience.

**Education**:
**FOREIGN EDUCATION**: 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:

- 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
- 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 insti