K-8 Charter School Director at Cape Fear Center for Inquiry

Cape Fear Center for Inquiry is a K-8 Inquiry-Based Learning Charter School in Wilmington, North Carolina, which has successfully served its students, families, personnel, and community for over 20 years. CFCI is currently seeking a School Director to build upon its strengths and further its mission. Our reputation, mission, and vision require a positive, hardworking, experienced leader to continue the school’s evolution. 

The School Director will shape the visionary educational model through three pillars: 

1. Authentic participation within a shared leadership and teacher-powered school; 

    

   Advocacy for inquiry-based teaching; and 

    

   Consistent endorsement of responsive classroom methods.

    

We seek a candidate who has exemplary character, is values-driven, and can lead professionally with care and candor. The successful candidate will be skillful at consensus- and team-building and balance both with an ability to enforce parameters, facilitate healthy conflict resolution, communicate effectively, and execute the mission and vision of CFCI.

The candidate will need to demonstrate the ability to lead our school, including all stakeholders, to sustainable success through long-term planning with ongoing monitoring, support and measurable milestones. While striving for equity of educational opportunity and culturally responsive practices, the School Director will cultivate an inclusive, caring and supportive community. In addition, the successful candidate will improve teacher practice through ongoing observations, feedback and support. Engaging families and the community in meaningful, reciprocal, and mutually beneficial ways, is a core responsibility of the School Director.

Responsibilities also include administrative tasks, committee participation, strategic planning, schoolwide activities, board cultivation, communication, marketing, fiduciary compliance, and record-keeping.    

Candidates will participate in a rigorous competitive selection process. The final selection will take place in the spring of 2021.

Please email the completed application package to Mallory Hickey at mpadgett@cfci.net including:

• Resume including last three supervisory references 

   

  Current licenses or certifications 

   

  Cover letter

   

  Introduction Video (five-minute cap) demonstrating how your personality will best serve the Cape Fear Center for Inquiry.