Job Description

The School Director (“Director”) is responsible for leadership of Palmetto Excel’s Adult High School. The Director is
the school’s instructional leader, ensuring high-quality teaching and curriculum—aligned with South Carolina’s
graduation standards--and the achievement of the charter’s goals, including closing achievement gaps and ensuring
100% of eligible students graduate annually. The Director provides a hands-on and data-driven leadership approach
in the directing, planning, and managing of daily operations at the school site. The Director will lead the hiring of
teachers and staff and ensure all pre-opening and ongoing conditions are met. Working closely with the Chief of
Mission and Marketing, the Director will take the lead in student and staff recruitment and school marketing and
engagement, ensuring enrollment targets are exceeded. The Director will work with the Chief of Mission and
Marketing and key Goodwill divisions (e.g., Finance, Marketing, IT, Legal, HR) in carrying out the daily operations
and success of the school. The Director will engage with all team members in meeting the educational objectives of
the school and building and supporting a school culture that prioritizes strong relationships, high expectations and
standards, and relevance to real-world careers and opportunities. The Director will help to cultivate partnerships in
support of the school, including workforce certification opportunities and career pathways.

Qualifications

• Proven track record and experience developing, coaching, and managing direct reports that include teachers and
  other school staff and building high performing teams.
  • Proven track record meeting and/or exceeding goals and persevering to achieve desired results.
  • Knowledge of and experience with the processes/components needed to effectively manage a school from all key
  areas: Instruction, Special Education, Coaching, College and Career Readiness, Operations, Data, and Enrollment.
  Has the ability to develop and communicate processes in efficient workflows and understands how the key areas
  of a school connect and support each other.
  • Strong working knowledge and experience of high quality curriculum and instruction. Has the ability to evaluate
  instructional programming and teaching effectiveness and to create and drive a culture of feedback that leads to
  improvement in practice and outcomes.
  • Strong communicator at a variety of levels. Demonstrates effective written and verbal presentation skills to a
  wide variety of audiences.
  • Excellent planning and organizing skills; extremely careful attention to detail and follow-through.
  • Knowledge and familiarity with human resources and hiring practices and Charleston-area labor market
  conditions.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to analyze data for informed decision making and both create
  and implement course corrections that align to the school’s needs and stay in tune with the school’s philosophy.
  • Strong understanding of Palmetto Excel’s students and their needs, assets, and potential—and how this informs
  the school’s student-centric approach. Relentless belief in the potential of every Palmetto Excel student.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills. Ability to interact with all levels of management, staff and students and participates
  effectively as a team player in internal and external projects.
  • Intermediate computer skills with working knowledge of Microsoft Office products including Teams, Word,
  Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook; knowledge of student information systems; advanced knowledge to use the
  Internet to perform searches and obtain information.
  • Thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment; flexible, able to work autonomously, as well as take
  direction as needed.
  Education and Experience
  Bachelor’s degree in relevant field and 5+ years in a school-related leadership role
• South Carolina Principal/Administrator certification
• Experience driving academic results in South Carolina