Reports to: Head of School

Employment Information: Full time, 12-month non-bargaining unit position

Position Scope:

The primary role of the Director of Academic Affairs is to provide academic leadership, direction and oversight for Early Childhood Education, K-12 and Transition Academy programs.

Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Deaf Education or Special Education.
• Principal Certification required
• 5 years Administration experience in a school setting or program for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students required
• Advanced proficiency in American Sign Language preferred
• Collaborative leadership skills and strong interpersonal skills

Responsibilities:

• Communicate a clear vision of high achievement and continuous quality improvement consistent with the mission, vision, beliefs, values and strategic plan of PSD.
• Oversee the curricular alignment across disciplines and grade levels in conjunction with the curriculum specialists.
• Provide leadership and effective supervision to the educational leaders and support service leaders.
• Evaluate the educational leaders and support service leaders.
• Maintain a safe school atmosphere conducive for learning by ensuring that there is effective discipline.
• Foster instructional practices to safeguard the health and wellness of students. 
• Make sure that the school programming and professional development plans are aligned with the school improvement plan.
• Recruits, supervises and evaluates staff.
• Conduct weekly supervisor meetings and makes certain that the focus is upon improving student performance.
• Participate on the Executive Team and contributes to the long term strategic planning of the school.
• Monitor student outcomes and work with the educational leaders to ensure meaningful progress toward goals.
• Support Principals with communication with families and Local Educational Agencies.
• Oversee programming, including IEP development and implementation.
• Responsible for staff trainings including all required State Department of Education trainings.
• Other responsibilities as deemed appropriate by the Head of School.

Physical Demands:

• Willingness to travel and to work occasional evenings and weekends
• Occasionally lift up to 15 lbs.
• Generally works in standard office conditions and climate.
• Works in a highly stressful environment dealing with a wide variety of challenges, deadlines and a varied and diverse array of contacts.
• Regularly walk, sit, stand, kneel, crouch, stoop and reach with hands and arms.
• Manual dexterity to efficiently operate a computer keyboard and other business machines.
• Near vision sufficient to read written communications and computer display screen.

PSD is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, PSD will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact the human resources department.