The Superintendent or designee shall be responsible for recruiting and recommending employees for employment. Administrators shall be responsible for recommending those employees under their immediate supervision, with the approval of the Superintendent or designee.
Selection of employees shall be based on the following qualifications, as well as any other qualifications the superintendent or administrator deems appropriate:
- Training, education, certification, and licensing;
- Experience and skill;
- Demonstrated professional competency;
- Personality;
- General suitability for the position;
- The needs of the district.
All professional employees shall be properly licensed as required by statutory enactment and the Iowa Department of Education.
Announcement of the position will be posted online, as required; on the school district website; and in each school building. Teaching vacancies identified during the school year that must be filled during the same school year shall be exempt from the five-day internal notice period. Teaching vacancies identified for the following school year after May 15th will be exempt from internal notice. Whenever possible, the preliminary screening of applicants will be conducted by the administrator who will be directly supervising and overseeing the person being hired.
The superintendent shall make a recommendation to the board and the board shall approve any recommendation prior to any individual being employed by the board. The board may delegate the hiring of teachers to the superintendent. However, the superintendent will have the authority to employ an employee on a temporary basis until a recommendation can be made and action can be taken by the board on the position.
(June 15, 1992; April 18, 2011; June 18, 2012; January 19, 2015, July 24, 2017; June 10, 2019)