Superintendent - Missouri School Boards Association
Position: Superintendent
Subject Area: (none)
Job Title: Webster Groves Superintendent of Schools
Job Location: Webster Groves, MO
Beginning: Jul 01, 2025
Deadline: Dec 01, 2024**
District: Missouri School Boards Association
Columbia, MO 65203
Telephone: 573-445-9920
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Job Description:
Position Purpose
To inspire, lead, guide and direct every member of the administrative, instructional, and supportive services teams in setting and achieving the highest standards of excellence in developing and maintaining the best possible educational programs and services, so that each individual student enrolled in the school district will be provided with a complete, valuable, meaningful, and personally rewarding education.
 
To oversee and administer the use of all school district facilities, property, and funds with to ensure that those resources are utilized in an appropriate manner.
 
Essential Functions
•         Serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the school district, administering the development and maintenance of a positive educational program designed to foster student achievement and meet the needs of the school community in conformance with Board policies and applicable law.
•         Advises the Board on the need for new or revised policies and ensures that all policies of implemented and followed.
•         Prepares and submits to the Board recommendations relative to all matters requiring Board action, placing before the Board such necessary and helpful facts, information and reports needed to enable the Board to make informed decisions.
•         Handles emergency situations as necessary on any matter that requires immediate action or that is not covered by Board policies or school district procedures.
•         Attends and participates in all meetings of the Board and its committees, except executive sessions for the purpose of discussing the Superintendent's employment or salary.
•         Serves as ex officio member of Board and school committees.
•         Reports to the Board such matters as deemed material to the understanding and proper management of the schools, or as the Board may request.
•         Supervises the carrying out of all laws, regulations, and Board policies.
•         Makes all administrative decisions within the school necessary to the proper function of the school district.
•         Makes such rules and gives such instructions to school employees and students as may be necessary to implement Board policy.
•         Formulates school objectives, policies, plans, and programs; prepares (or causes to be prepared) and presents facts and explanations necessary to assist the Board in its duty of legislation for the schools.
•         Conducts a periodic audit of the total school program, and advises the Board on recommendations for the educational advancement of the schools.
•         Recommends to the Board for its adoption all courses of study, curriculum guides, and major changes in texts and time schedules to be used in the schools.
•         Oversees the timely revisions of all curriculum guides and courses of study.
•         Prescribes rules for the classification and advancement of students, and for the transfer of students from one building to another in accordance with published policies.
•         Communicates directly or through delegation all actions of the Board relating to personnel matters to all employees; and receives from employees communications to be made to the Board.
•         Oversees collective bargaining negotiations with labor organizations representing school district employees.
•         Recommends for appointment, election, or employment all employees of the Board except professional officers of the Board, and assigns, transfers, and recommends for dismissal any and all employees of the Board except professional officers of the Board.
•         Assigns and transfers employees as the interest of the district may dictate, and reports such action to the Board for information and record.
•         Supervises methods of teaching, supervision, and administration in effect in the schools.
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** District reserves the right to close any Job Posting when a suitable applicant has been found before the deadline date.
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