Essential Responsibilities

Educational Leadership

• Provide strategic leadership for curriculum, instruction, assessment, and academic excellence. 
• Lead ongoing improvement of curriculum, instructional practice, assessment, and educational innovation.
• Foster thoughtful adoption of emerging technologies and new educational approaches in service of the school's mission.
• Ensure continued excellence through accreditation and continuous institutional improvement.

Faculty Leadership and Development

• Recruit, hire, mentor, supervise, evaluate, develop, and retain exceptional faculty and academic leaders.
• Build a professional culture marked by trust, collaboration, accountability, reflection, and continual growth.
• Develop leadership capacity throughout the faculty and administration.
• Coordinate meaningful professional development aligned with the school's strategic priorities and educational mission.
• Foster a community in which teaching is valued as both a profession and a vocation.

Mission and Student Formation

• Ensure that the Catholic, Jesuit mission is integrated into all aspects of the school. 
• Partner with Campus Ministry, the Jesuit community, faculty, and staff to ensure that faith formation, intellectual development, and character formation remain fully integrated.
• Support programs that foster discernment, leadership, service, justice, and care for the whole person.
• Promote a school culture rooted in cura personalis, reflection, and the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.

Student Life and School Culture

• Provide leadership for student life, discipline, wellness, co-curricular programs, athletics and student support services.
• Ensure that every student is known, challenged, supported and encouraged to realize his God-given potential.
• Foster a safe, orderly, welcoming and inclusive school environment.
• Partner with Admissions to recruit and enroll talented young men from throughout the region.

Organizational Leadership

• Lead the daily operation of the school.
• Partner with the President in strategic planning, institutional priorities, budgeting, and long-range planning.
• Ensure effective stewardship of personnel, financial and physical resources.
• Oversee school safety, emergency planning and operational effectiveness.
• Maintain all required accreditation, reporting and sponsorship requirements.

Governance and Institutional Leadership

• Serve as a member of the school's senior leadership team.
• Advise the President and Board of Trustees regarding academic programs, student life and institutional priorities.
• Serve as an ex officio member of Board committees as assigned.
• Represent the school within the broader Jesuit educational network and the local educational community.
• Build strong relationships with students, parents, alumni, faculty, staff and community partners.

Qualifications

Required

• Practicing Catholic with a deep personal faith and a demonstrated commitment to advancing the mission of Catholic and Jesuit education.
• Demonstrated success as an educational leader, with experience leading curriculum, instruction, assessment, and faculty development.
• Significant secondary-school leadership experience, including responsibility for faculty, academic programs and school operations. 
• Demonstrated success recruiting, supervising, evaluating, developing, and retaining outstanding faculty and educational leaders.
• Experience leading institutional improvement through thoughtful planning, collaborative leadership, and effective implementation.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong financial and administrative leadership skills, including budgeting and personnel management.
• Master's degree in Educational Leadership, Education Administration, or a related field.

Preferred

• Experience in Jesuit or Catholic secondary education.
• Familiarity with the Spiritual Exercises and Ignatian spirituality.
• Experience leading instructional innovation and educational technology initiatives.
• Experience working collaboratively with a President, Board of Trustees and senior leadership team.
• Doctoral degree

Direct Reports

• Assistant Principal for Academics and Instruction
• Assistant Principal for Wellness and Discipline
• Assistant Principal for Activities and Formation
• Director of Admissions
• Director of Athletics
• Director of Information Technology
• Director of Data