Middle School Principal (2026-2027 SY)

Valor Collegiate Academies Principal

Location : Nashville, Tennessee

Employment Type : Full-time, in-person, 12-month school-based leadership role for the 2026-2027 school year.

Salary : The salary range for this role is $105,800-$124,200, and placement is based on prior school leadership experience.

About Valor : Founded in 2014, Valor Collegiate Academies is a top-performing, public charter school network in Nashville, Tennessee, serving students in Grades 5-12 across three schools. Our mission is to create a community where students of all backgrounds have equitable access to an education that prepares them to live inspired and purposeful lives. This mission is made possible through an innovative school model that balances rigorous academics and whole-child education in an intentionally diverse environment.

About the Role : Valor's Voyager Middle School (part of the Valor Collegiate Academies network) is hiring an experienced school leader to become our next Principal in the 2026-2027 school year. We are looking for someone who is excited to share our mission of academic excellence and empowering scholars to live inspired and purposeful lives.

The Principal serves as the leader of our campus leadership team, directly managing other school-based leaders, including AP of Culture, AP of Academics, and Director of Operations, to achieve exceptional outcomes for all students. Additionally, this role also sits on our network's overall leadership team, working alongside our C-Suite on all efforts to set and achieve our network vision and reporting to the Chief of Schools.

At the heart of the Principal role is to lead our Voyager team from a place of kindness and curiosity, embracing Valor's organizational commitments. Outside the traditional responsibilities one would expect of a principal, success in this role requires an incredible level of self-reflection, candor, authenticity, and vulnerability. In our diverse by design model, this includes a deep emphasis on one's ongoing effort to acknowledge, excavate, and address one's own biases, and how those biases impact one's leadership of our intentionally diverse community.

Core Responsibilities :

• Serve as the overall leader of every facet of the school : a visible, present, hands-on leader responsible for all academic and cultural systems and all student outcomes.
• Collaborate and partner with Valor's organizational leaders to fully integrate Valor's organizational anchors into Voyager's campus.
• Main point of contact for student interactions / responsibilities and with primary caregivers.
• Hiring manager for school leadership, teacher, and paraprofessional positions at Voyager.
• Oversee strategy around budget and its intersection with staffing, schedules, duties, etc.
• Oversee the academic / instructional calendar process

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