Secondary Principal Supervisor - Executive Director

Principal Supervisor - Executive Director

Position Summary: As a Principal Supervisor for Oklahoma City Public Schools, you will play a critical role in advancing school leadership growth and promoting academic success in our elementary and secondary schools. Your primary responsibility will be to provide effective support and accountability to principals, ensuring coherence in their efforts to prioritize and drive transformational change within their school, and taking responsibility for helping principals with instructional leadership and their school's managerial operations. The successful candidate will possess strong leadership skills, a deep commitment to empowerment, and a proven track record of supporting school improvement initiatives.

Essential Duties

Great Teaching & Learning (Instructional Infrastructure)

• Observe and coach principals on leadership in action, including classroom instructional support.
• Support principals in executing effective assessment strategies using multiple data points.
• Provide feedback to improve the quality of data meetings and instructional planning.
• Ensure alignment of standards, curriculum, and assessments across schools.
• Develop systems enabling teachers to create instructional plans aligned to student learning needs.
• Rotate school visit focus to monitor instructional priorities, school goals, and improvement strategies.
• Support identification of high-leverage problems of practice through root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with principals to monitor instructional plan implementation and adjust based on outcomes.

Great People (Talent Management)

• Observe, coach, and provide actionable feedback to principals to strengthen leadership practice.
• Provide structured opportunities for principals to reflect on leadership performance and growth.
• Guide principals in supporting and holding teachers accountable for performance.
• Implement induction programs and coaching supports for instructional staff.
• Address teacher challenges and help principals provide targeted support strategies.
• Develop professional development approaches that build teacher and leader capacity.
• Strengthen principals' leadership competencies through interactive learning and coaching cycles.

Great Culture (System Leaders)

• Serve as liaison between schools and system-level leaders to ensure two-way communication.
• Advocate for equitable distribution of resources and supports across schools.
• Coordinate supports that foster inclusive, caring, and equitable school communities.
• Facilitate regular collaborative meetings of principals focused on continuous improvement.
• Encourage sharing of best practices and collective problem-solving among principals.
• Reinforce common expectations and advance district initiatives with clarity and coherence.
• Collaborate with other principal supervisors to strengthen alignment across schools.

Great Systems (Support & Accountability)

• Establish a consistent structure for purposeful weekly school visits, prioritizing highest-need schools.
• Inform system-level strategy and decision-making through communication of school needs and trends.
• Support development and implementation of school action plans (Title I, Schoolwide Plans, improvement plans).
• Ensure monitoring systems are in place to track plan implementation and effectiveness.
• Facilitate adjustment of strategies based on progress monitoring and evidence.
• Perform other duties as assigned in support of district goals and accountability structures.

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills And/or Abilities)

• Master's degree in Education or related field.
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in school leadership or district-level leadership roles.
• Demonstrated success in supporting school improvement initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience coaching and developing school leaders and/or instructional leadership teams.
• Ability to lead change, manage competing priorities, and operate within complex organizational systems.
• Experience supporting schools serving diverse student populations and advancing equitable outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of educational best practices and data-driven decision-making.
• Deep understanding of effective instruction, assessment practices, and school improvement planning.
• Demonstrated ability to influence, build trust, and lead through collaboration across multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and coaching skills.
• Commitment to empowerment in education.
• Current Oklahoma Administrator's Teaching Certificate.
• Relevant experience may be substituted for formal education at a 2:1 ratio. Therefore for every 1 year of college lacking, 2 years of directly relevant experience may be substituted.

Preferred Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills And/or Abilities)

• Direct experience serving as a school principal.

Physical/Mental Requirements

• Must have adequate manual dexterity to write legibly and perform required duties on the computer.
• Must have adequate visual acuity to read, interpret and transcribe written material and other required duties.
• Requires normal range of hearing and clear speaking abilities to interact appropriately with others in person and on the telephone.
• Physical agility, able to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, walk, reach and climb stairs.
• Requires some stooping, bending, stretching and occasional lifting not to exceed 25 pounds.
• Sitting for prolonged periods.
• May periodically require work outside of normal business hours, including weekends, under stressful conditions in order to meet business needs and strict deadlines.

Work Environment

• Office duties will be performed in a well-lighted, climate controlled environment.

Reports To: Assistant Superintendent of Elementary or Secondary Education

FSLA Status: Exempt

Compensation: Schedule 902

Work Days: 242

FTE: 100

This job description is not intended to be all inclusive. The employee will also perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the supervisor or appropriate administrator. Oklahoma City Public Schools reserves the right to, update, revise or change job duties as the need prevails. This document is for communication only and not intended to imply a written or implied contract of employment. The Board of Education and Superintendent may approve alternatives to the listed qualifications.

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