Substitute Administrator

Position Type:

Administration and Professionals

Date Posted:

2025-02-14

Location:Administration or As Assigned

ABOUT CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) is Ohio's third-largest public school system, serving more than 35,000 students.

 CMSD strives to ensure that every child receives a high-quality education, regardless of the provider. To that end, CMSD lets families choose which District schools their children attend, with options that include STEM, the arts, single-gender education, International Baccalaureate, Montessori, and early college.

 Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing their school as a high-quality, high-expectation academic center focusing on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results.

 CMSD ensures that students have access to technology and training to prepare them for the future. The District provides a free laptop or tablet for every student and connects every family that needs internet access. Graduating seniors leave commencement with not only a diploma but also a laptop.

 In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we strive to ensure that all of  our learners, both scholars and educators, to be challenged with academically and intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their efforts and provide them opportunities to demonstrate their best work.

BUILDING BRIGHTER FUTURES

The Cleveland Board of Education adopted the Building Brighter Futures (BBF) initiative on December 9, 2025. Building Brighter Futures is a strategic and data-driven plan shaped by more than a year of community engagement, information analysis, and thoughtful deliberation. The goal of this plan is to strengthen enrollment and ensure scholars attend a newer school building that offers more educational opportunities, including algebra in the eighth grade, more sports and extracurricular activities, and college credits and college and career pathways in high school. BBF is ensuring academic excellence so every CMSD scholar can thrive.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

 

Location: As Assigned
Reports to: Network Support Leader/Principal
Type: Part-time
FLSA Status: Exempt
Daily rate: $ 375.70

2026-2027 School Year

The substitute administrator is responsible for fostering a strong school culture and an academic program that is clearly focused on improving teaching practices and achieving measurable student achievement gains. Successful candidates must be instructionally strong, confident administrators who can provide decisive management, coaching, and vigorous leadership through the change process at each school. This position reports to the network support leader.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Has the primary responsibility for establishing his or her school as an active learning center with a focus on student engagement, professional support for teachers, instructional practices that lead to dramatic academic progress, and measurable results that lead to better outcomes for our schools and scholars

QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree required
• Strong record of helping students achieve academic success, primarily minority and low-income students
• Three plus years of K-12 administrator experience, required
• Three to five years of K-12 classroom experience, required
• Experience working effectively with urban schools, students and families, and outside partners with demonstrated exemplary results
• Record of success in leading adults; prior experience with direct management and supervision
• A passionate belief in the capacity of all children to learn and succeed and a sense of urgency about making that real for CMSD students
• Possess an entrepreneurial spirit and be flexible, willing and able to play different roles at the school, and to go above and beyond to meet the varied and constant needs of CMSD scholars
• Special training and/or experience with school turnaround highly desirable
• Certification - Administrator license (K-8, 4-9, or 5-12)
• Ability to work nights and weekends as needed
• Valid Ohio driver’s license

WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The characteristics listed below are representative of the work environment typically encountered by an individual while performing the essential duties of this position.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties. 

• Expected moving, walking, and standing consistent with an office environment and occasionally lifting up to 15 pounds
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms
• The employee is frequently required to talk and/or hear.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to a normal office/school environment.
• Travel to schools will be required; must have reliable transportation

NOTE:  The above-stated duties are intended to outline those functions typically performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This description of duties is not intended to be all-inclusive or to limit the discretionary authority of management to assign other tasks of a similar nature or level of responsibility. 

Education

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EEO Statement

We believe that equity and inclusion at CMSD is an essential call to action, a catalyst to ensure value and appreciation among all our employees, so we may be fair and welcoming now and in the future.  CMSD provides equal opportunities for employment, retention and advancement of all personnel by administering all terms and conditions of employment regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, sex, disability or genetic information, age, citizenship status, military status, sexual orientation or expression, socio-economic status, title, other dimensions of identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.