Hybrid Anticipated Assistant Principal - Downingtown High School West chez Downingtown Area School District

Position:  Assistant Principal (Job ID 5382)
Location:  Downingtown High School West
Benefits Eligible:  Yes
Effective Date:  2025-2026 School Year

Are you passionate about helping ALL students learn in a collaborative environment? If so, we may have the career for you! Downingtown Area School District is excited to announce an anticipated opening for an Assistant Principal at Downingtown High School West.

At DASD, we are committed to sharing values of diversity and inclusion in order to achieve and sustain excellence in education. As a diverse district, we continually seek ways to strengthen our educational environment. We believe that we can best promote excellence by recruiting and retaining a diverse group of staff who bring various backgrounds and perspectives. Our ability to create and maintain a climate of respect is critical to attaining the best teaching and learning environment.

At Downingtown Area School District we value our employees. We seek to hire new staff who:

• Communicate openly to build relationships and trust  
• Partner with team members to see the TEAM succeed
• Demonstrate a growth mindset and seek ongoing opportunities for growth
• Embrace and support a safe and inclusive environment
• Eagerly and enthusiastically support student learning
• Strive to be kind and reflective
• Focus on the solution and put people first
• Lead by example!

If you want to be part of our "Downingtown Proud" team - please apply!  Help us with our mission to educate all students to meet the rigorous challenges of a global society.

Job Summary:  Facilitates the educational achievement of all students while providing a safe environment conducive to learning. Supervise staff to promote professional development.

Qualifications: To successfully perform this position, a person must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.  The qualification requirements listed below represent minimum levels of educational achievement, training, skills and/or ability necessary.

• Candidate must be a graduate of an accredited college or university and hold a proper Pennsylvania administrative certification for the position.
  • Master’s degree required. 
• Five (5) years of successful experience in public education as a teacher or administrator necessary, including elementary or secondary school instruction.
• Prior assistant principal or supervisory experience is helpful.
• Knowledge of best practices in curriculum integration, instruction, professional development, public relations, and admissions preferred.
• Decision making skills are significant to the job, affecting a large segment of the organization, students, teachers, and parents.
• Candidate must possess good moral character and demonstrate leadership qualities and personal characteristics necessary for working effectively with pupils, teachers, and parents.
• Candidate should be skilled in the use of word processing, data bases, IEP software, office equipment, and presentation software.
• Must have and maintain a valid state vehicle operator’s license and a good driving record.
• Must successfully complete and maintain compliance with all federal and state background and criminal record check requirements.
  • Click here for more information about required clearances.
• Candidate must adhere to all local, state, federal, and school code requirements for employment.

Duties & Responsibilities:  Employee must have the ability to perform the following essential functions on a timely basis with or without reasonable accommodations.  This position description does not express or imply that these are the only duties to be performed by the incumbent(s) in this position.  Employee(s) will be required to complete other job-related duties requested by the supervisor.

• Provides leadership in the recruitment, selection, assignment, observation, and evaluation of school personnel.
• Assists in the coordination and implementation of professional development and the improvement of instructional practices.
• Maintains student attendance records, master schedule, activities/events schedule, and use of building schedule.
• Enforces code of discipline, meetings with parents and students, and maintains records.
• Serves as liaison for the Student Assistance Team and serve as LEA for grade level IEP’s; serves as school assembly liaison and liaison for subject departments.
• Maintains availability for bus duty, directing traffic and students, checking in buses, bus referrals, bus slips, and ensuring safety of students.
• Chaperones dances, prom, activities, athletic events, concerts, etc. and participates in District events.
• Monitors in-school suspension, detentions, and summer/night-school, scheduling staff, dates, and times for these programs.
• Supervises, hires, and evaluates the copy room aide and maintains supplies; supervises support staff, custodians, security personnel, attendance secretary, and learning support aides.
• Chaperones/supervises and coordinates transportation for activities and events, such as field trips and athletic games.
• Hires and supervises cafeteria workers; monitors lunches daily.
• Maintains compliance with district policies and procedures.
• Maintains purchase orders for shipping and receiving.
• Oversees the processing of teacher requisition forms for general supplies.
• Serves on various committees as requested.
• Oversees Keystone responsibilities.
• Acts as school parking coordinator; develops and maintains parking records for students and staff.
• Develops school calendar, parent handbook, student handbook, fundraisers, and club booklet.
• Acts as liaison to vocational and other alternative schools/programs.
• Resolves physical conflicts (fights) and supervises medical situations. Responsible for drug searches, both individual and building-wide (dogs), building-wide/district-wide emergencies, and lockdown situations.

Salary 2025-2026 School Year:
 $123,422 - $148,107 annually
*Placement upon salary scale is dependent upon years of experience in similar position

Schedule:
- 7 hours per day, 5 days per week, 260 days per year, based on district-approved calendar
- Full-time, 12-month position

Summary of Benefits:

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• Medical Coverage through IBX - PPO plans only
  • No Primary Care Physician necessary
  • No referrals required
  • IBC has extensive local and national networks
• Prescription Coverage through CVS/Caremark
• Dental Coverage - Delta Dental Active PPO
  • Allows use of in-network and out-of-network providers
• Vision Coverage - Vision Benefits of America (VBA)

• Fitness Program
  • Receive $150 back when you complete 120 workouts at an approved fitness facility within 365 days. www.ibx.com/reimbursements
• Nutritional Counseling
  • Up to 6 free visits per calendar year with a registered dietitian.
• Employee Assistance Program
  • Health Advocate is a free, confidential program that offers EAP+ Work/Life benefits to help you address difficulties in your life by providing short term assistance with personal, family, and work issues. In addition, it simplifies the navigation of the health care system by helping you find the right doctors, resolving billing and insurance claim issues, explaining benefit coverages, helping your parents or in-laws with the complexities of Medicare, and much more! 
• Telemedicine
  • The telemedicine benefit through SwiftMD is offered to ALL DASD employees at no cost to you. The telemedicine benefit allows for consultations with US board-certified doctors over the phone or online, from your home, office, or on the road. These physicians can diagnose, recommend treatment, and submit prescriptions to your pharmacy of choice. 

DASD provides group term life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) coverage at no cost to you. The plan includes double indemnity for accidental death and dismemberment.

Optional Life Insurance 
You may also purchase additional life insurance as a supplement to the company paid benefit. 

Income Protection Benefits
DASD provides income protection insurance at no cost to you. This provides income if you are disabled and unable to work. The benefit begins on the 61st day of disability or illness or the exhaustion of your sick days, whichever is later. Pays 60% of your basic monthly pay, up to $10,000 per month

Life Benefit
Pays 3x your basic annual salary up to maximum of $800,000

Executive Flexible Benefits Plan
You are provided a reimbursement account, equivalent to 2.5% of your annual base salary, up to a maximum of $2,500. You can use this money to fund your share of employee contributions for healthcare coverage and/or other eligible expenses. 

Insurance Waiver
You may waive coverage for yourself and eligible dependents under the district’s health insurance plan and receive a payment representing a portion of the premium, which the district would have paid. Depending upon coverage waived, administrators are eligible to receive up to $2,200 annually.

Tuition Reimbursement
100% of tuition for all graduate or doctoral courses, if grade of ‘B’ or better is attained. Cap $15,000/yr

TSA Match
3% of salary

Paid Time Off

• 12 sick days annually
• 3 personal days annually
• 20 vacation days annually for 12-month staff; 1 additional day per year to a max of 30 days after 10 years as an administrator; can accrue up to a maximum of 50 days
• Vacation payout for unused days - up to 10 days annually
• 19 paid holidays per year

• Health Insurance - Can purchase insurance for retiree and spouse until the lesser of 10 years or age 65 for medical, prescription, dental and vision. Health contributions will be the greater of the DASD Act 93 contribution or co-pay equal to PSERS premium assistance. To qualify, employee must be age 55 or have 35 years of service, retired under PSERS and have worked as a DASD administrator for 10 years.
• Life Insurance - 2.5 times annual salary until lesser of 10 years or age 65
• Personal Days Payout
• Sick Days Payout

EOE