WHAT DOES A PRINCIPAL DO?

Published: Dec 01, 2025 - The Principal Professional delivers strategic leadership in overseeing academic programs, staff development, and school operations to ensure excellence in education and organizational performance. This role emphasizes the implementation of effective policies, the cultivation of professional growth, and the promotion of a collaborative and inspiring learning culture. The individual exhibits strong analytical thinking, exceptional communication, and a steadfast dedication to advancing institutional goals and student success.

A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Principal

1. Principal Duties

  • Business Analysis: Analyzes quality business processes and provides guidance relative to emerging trends and strategy
  • Customer Insight: Understand the customer's business, know pain points, needs, and strategic plans
  • Executive Advisory: Advise, counsel, and educate executives and management on their competitive or financial impact
  • Requirements Development: Leads and participates in the process to develop requirements
  • Data Evaluation: Evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, and decompose high-level information into details
  • Problem Identification: Abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, differentiate between actual and required user needs and distinguish user requests from the underlying business problems
  • Requirements Elicitation: Elicits requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis and other relevant techniques
  • Process Analysis: Handle regional process analyses in support of a business unit or region, and may perform global analyses under the guidance of an IT Business Partner
  • Strategic Support: Plays a supporting role to help shape and inform strategy
  • Team Collaboration: Collaborate with business units on their assumptions on how they will successfully execute their plans
  • Solution Development: Analyzes the business objectives of the stakeholder and develops solutions to their business issues
  • Solution Design: Prepare TrackWise solution design and prototypes to receive business agreement

2. Principal Details

  • Team Leadership: Leads offshore technical/development teams both as TrackWise SME and project lead by guiding them and training them on TrackWise and related processes
  • Customer Collaboration: Proactively connects, collaborates and maintains communication with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver project methodology artifacts (following Viatris’ project methodology)
  • Implementation Leadership: Plays the role of implementation lead
  • Risk Management: Provides support and/or direction to the project in overcoming hurdles and moving projects forward by proactively mitigating open issues and project risks
  • Stakeholder Communication: Maintains consistent communication channels between all vested parties (steering committee, business sponsors, IT stakeholders, project team, etc.)
  • Change Management: Leads organization change management efforts in areas of responsibility
  • Project Planning: Leads the creation of project management plans that clearly define the project scope, assumptions, risks and overall project approach including project resource needs, high-level timelines, and project communications
  • Budget Oversight: Develops and administers project budgets, schedules and performance standards
  • Issue Resolution: Oversee support escalations and address them appropriately

3. Preschool Principal Responsibilities

  • Policy Compliance: Work within the centre's policies, philosophy and procedures
  • Child Safety: Ensure the general well-being of children in areas concerning safety, hygiene and social behavior
  • Operational Management: Plan and oversee the day-to-day operations of the Centre
  • Team Leadership: Supervise and provide leadership
  • Curriculum Development: Work with programme staff to develop a holistic and developmentally appropriate early childhood curriculum
  • Service Quality: Ensure that the centre's service meets the needs of the children and families
  • Target Achievement: Achieve enrolment and costs targets

4. Centre Principal Job Summary

  • Teacher Mentoring: Guide and mentor teachers to raise the standard and performance in the centre
  • Team Building: Build a team with positive morale and highly competitive educators
  • Regulatory Compliance: Well-versed in Singapore regulatory agencies' requirements, licensing, health and safety regulations, etc
  • Agency Coordination: Work closely with relevant agencies or partners to fulfill requirements
  • Budget Management: Prepare and control expenditures
  • Enrollment Management: Maintain a healthy enrolment rate
  • Stakeholder Relations: Maintaining good relations with parents, business partners, government bodies, etc
  • Standards Compliance: Adhere to teaching standards and safety regulations as established by the official sources
  • Reporting Management: Prepare monthly reports and other relevant documents required by the management

5. Principal Accountabilities

  • Business Development: Leverage pre-existing relationships and network to identify, establish, and expand business engagements on the East Coast
  • Client Management: Act as the primary owner of client engagements to ensure deliverable quality, client satisfaction, and project management (scope, revenue, and profitability)
  • Subject Expertise: Provide subject matter expertise and thought partnership to clients in establishing credibility and adding value to stakeholders
  • Team Building: Recruit and build a 159 East Coast hub to successfully deliver projects
  • Growth Strategy: Interface with leaders within IQVIA’s Emerging BioPharma team to further drive growth within the Emerging BioPharma segment
  • Data Translation: Translate complex analyses into relevant and actionable client insights and deliverables
  • Proposal Management: Support business development opportunities and drive proposal and RFP processes with new clients
  • Leadership Support: Take an active role in internal initiatives and be an active member of the leadership team in supporting administrative, operational, and strategic business needs
  • Public Representation: Act as an ambassador to the organization, in contributing to the enhanced awareness of 159/IQVIA in the East Coast through speaking engagements, white papers, and company presentations
  • Team Mentorship: Mentor, coach, and develop team members for continued growth and success within the organization
  • Cross Collaboration: Ensure effective and efficient collaboration and communication between onshore and offshore team members
  • Cultural Leadership: Act as a role model and represent 159 and IQVIA's values in establishing a culture of collaboration, curiosity, and innovation

6. Services Principal Functions

  • Sales Collaboration: Consult and collaborate with the Sales team to develop, negotiate and close business opportunities for domestic and global deals
  • Partnership Development: Develop partnerships with business executives to position HP as the preferred vendor
  • Client Engagement: Work jointly with clients to identify, understand and address business challenges
  • Solution Coordination: Coordinate a team of subject matter experts to create and present impactful business solutions to the client
  • Executive Communication: Communicate effectively with external and internal executives including IT, Procurement and legal teams

7. Principal Job Description

  • Staff Development: Hire and develop school staff (certificated and classified)
  • Instructional Leadership: Serve as administrator and instructional leader of the school, direct and supervise the curriculum and guidance program of the school
  • Scheduling Management: Responsible for planning the master schedule of classes for students and for assigning members of the certificated staff
  • Performance Evaluation: Evaluate the performance of teachers and other school employees and coach them on their individual development
  • Discipline Policy: Craft student discipline policies to meet the unique student population
  • Resource Management: Direct financial and human resources at the school site
  • Budget Planning: Responsible for school budgetary planning and business operations
  • Community Engagement: Work closely with parents and the community at large
  • Support Initiatives: Initiate and implement community support and advisory groups
  • Academic Accountability: Accountable for students' overall academic performance
  • Parent Communication: Available for contact with parents, students and staff to discuss student progress and problems after class, at night or on weekends (via cell phone or in person)
  • Professional Commitment: Maintain work hours extending beyond school hours for other professional duties or functions such as staff meetings, supervision of student events, etc.
  • Environmental Management: Maintain professional standards and a school environment that is productive, safe and focused
  • Professional Development: Participate in Green Dot and individual professional development
  • Organizational Promotion: Participate in other events aimed at promoting or developing organizations and schools (e.g., student recruitment)

8. Principal Overview

  • Staff Management: Manages school staff by planning work schedules, evaluating staff performance, and developing performance improvement plans
  • Curriculum Implementation: Assists with the implementation of the company-provided curriculum, which includes coaching, communicating and interpreting standards with teachers
  • Operational Compliance: Accountable for the operation of the school, ensuring that the school is operating in accordance with company and state licensing standards
  • Child Safety: Responsible for ensuring an educational, caring and safe environment for the children and parents
  • Student Development: Spark imagination, build self-esteem and help children discover new things each day
  • Brand Promotion: Promote the positive image of the company and play a major role in making the company a provider of choice in educational programs for the communities that service
  • Talent Acquisition: Recruit, select and retain quality staff
  • Financial Management: Help achieve profitability for the company

9. Principal Details and Accountabilities

  • Budget Management: Deploy a budget with a focus on information ecosystems
  • Grantmaking Strategy: Grantmaking and the support of and participation in ecosystem-building initiatives (which do not centre on direct grantmaking to existing organisations as a core strategy)
  • Team Collaboration: Collaborate with Luminate’s regional and programmatic teams on grants related to information ecosystems and, in particular, independent journalism and mis-/disinformation
  • Partnership Development: Build and maintain external relationships (e.g., with counterparts on co-funders’ global teams) that can enhance Luminate’s ability to deliver against its strategy
  • Partner Support: Facilitate and directly provide support to Luminate’s information ecosystem partners to strengthen their capacity and impact
  • Research Execution: Scope and execute research and other learning projects to deepen Luminate’s institutional knowledge around information ecosystems
  • Knowledge Integration: Gather and help make sense of Luminate’s information ecosystems learnings across regions to inform Luminate’s work at the global and transregional level
  • Team Supervision: Oversee and manage the work of a Programme Associate

10. Principal Tasks

  • Strategic Leadership: Contributing to building the strategic direction and delivery of the global growth objectives
  • Plan Execution: Leading the execution of the strategic plan within the region
  • Team Management: Taking the leadership role in the area of expertise, including managing all team members within the Thailand market
  • Performance Coaching: Providing feedback and coaching to the extended leadership team / junior colleagues to support their development and career progression within the organization through the use of appropriate channels
  • Talent Mentorship: Coaching, mentoring, counselling and guiding development in relevant disciplines
  • Ethical Leadership: Setting the right example throughout the firm in terms of work ethics, personal conduct and crisis management
  • Client Engagement: Building strong coaching relationships with key clients on improvement initiatives and the leadership team
  • Advisory Expertise: Serving as a trusted advisor to senior client executives
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