Principal or Vice Principal High School Principal / Charter School Chicago
Job Description
About Noble: Noble is Chicago’s highest-performing and largest network of public charter high schools. Our 18 schools and 1,400 employees currently serve over 12,300 students, 98% of whom are students of color, 89% low-income, and 83% first-generation college goers. The School Quality and Rating Policy scores for the Chicago Public Schools rated Noble campuses as ten of the top fifteen public high schools in the city. We believe our people are the most valuable asset in preparing our students to be successful in college and lead exemplary lives.
Our Why: Mission
Noble is a catalyst for educational equity in Chicago that empowers students with the scholarship, discipline, and honor necessary to succeed in college and lead exemplary lives.
Our What: Results
Noble defines results as ensuring that our schools are the best in the country at preparing our students to be college ready, the best place for students to attend school, and the best place for our staff to work. We measure our success against this commitment to results by continuously looking at metrics within the following six dimensions:
- School Culture
- Academic Results
- Staff Engagement
- Student Retention
- Fiscal Integrity
- College Persistence
The strong supports and accountability to delivering on these outcomes is at the core of what is expected of a Noble principal and what has made Noble among the nation’s leaders in education.
Our How: Ideal Principal Competencies
Noble’s 18 principals are a cohesive and impressive community of leaders. The core competencies we are seeking in the next person to join this team include:
- Values: Principals exemplify Noble’s core values of results; respect; follow-through; diversity, equity, and inclusion; and humility and self-awareness.
- Performance: Principals inspire, protect, and deliver continuously improving excellence in Noble’s six core outcomes.
- Talent: Principals attract, hire, train, and develop a diverse and mission-driven team of people.
- Management: Principals create and uphold clear roles, responsibilities, and performance metrics for all team members in alignment to the campus vision.
- Prioritization: Principals select the right priorities and execute on them effectively.
Compensation
The role of a principal is arguably among the most challenging jobs in the country. We know that to deliver on our why, what, and how for families, students, and staff we must provide a highly competitive salary for principals. Total compensation, including base salary and bonus, is expected at $145,000.
In addition to salary, and a mission-driven high-performance culture, Noble is proud of the competitive health, financial, and wellness benefits provided all employees.
