DescriptionJob Title: Principal
DescriptionBard invites applications for dynamic leaders who will join the administrative team as a Principal or Assistant Principal of one of our Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) for the 2025 - 2026 academic year.
Position Objective and DutiesThe Principal is the early college's academic and administrative leader. The Principal is responsible for:
- ensuring that the school meets Bard's high standards of undergraduate academic rigor and student achievement;
- facilitating smooth and effective collaboration with the school system partner and Bard regarding all aspects of school management;
- alongside the school's Dean of Studies, leading the faculty in designing and delivering an academic program of genuine collegiate quality and ensuring the implementation of Bard's Early College pedagogy across the curriculum, including Bard's Writing and Thinking Practices;
- upholding and enriching the tenets of diversity, equity, and inclusion of BHSEC's school culture and community, and fostering a campus culture of intellectual engagement, individual responsibility, and creativity; and
- leading the school staff. The Principal reports to the school system partner and to Bard College, specifically through the Vice President/Dean of the Early Colleges. The Principal collaborates regularly with other BHSEC leadership teams.
Compensation: The compensation for this position is based on the local school district's administrators' salary steps.
Location of your assignment: TBD. We have campuses in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and Hudson, NY; Newark, NJ; New Orleans, LA; Cleveland, OH; Baltimore, MD; and Washington, D.C.
QualificationsThe Principal must lead a campus that is both a public high school as well as a degree-granting undergraduate branch campus of Bard College. As such, the Principal's professional and academic experience should span both secondary and postsecondary teaching and administration, and, where relevant, scholarship. The successful candidate will excel at working in a community that is broadly diverse with regard to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, nationality, sexual orientation and religion.
The successful candidate for the position will possess the following characteristics and qualifications:
- Doctorate in a liberal arts and sciences discipline (corresponding to the fields available for study within the Bard College curriculum)
- Scholarship and engagement in that field of study since attainment of doctoral degree
- Relevant teaching experience, preferably with both college and high school-aged students
- Relevant leadership experience
- Very strong organizational and management skills
- Very strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Experience in and commitment to working with adolescents
- Administrator certification required
- Additionally, candidates will be subject to necessary qualifications and review in accordance with the local school district's principal selection process.
Application Instructions Please apply directly with Bard College / Bard Early Colleges. Do this by clicking on the "Apply Now" button found through the Interfolio job application link provided here: https://apply.interfolio.com/131154
Use the Interfolio link provided to upload the following documents directly with Bard College:
- a letter of interest
- curriculum vitae,
- Contact information for three references
Questions: Contact Dumaine Williams, Vice President and Dean of the Early Colleges at [redacted]. Please indicate in the subject line of your email that it is an Inquiry about the Principal Position at a BHSEC campus where the location is TBD
