Area Coordinator/Residence Life

Marshall University•Huntington, WV

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Marshall University’s Department of Housing and Residence Life seeks outgoing, energetic, and skilled applicants for a full-time, 12-month live-in professional responsible for a residential living community at Marshall University. The communities house between 250-850 students, a team of Resident Advisors ranging from 6 to 28 and has the potential to supervise an Assistant Area Coordinator.

Requirements

Full-time, 12-month live-in professional position.
Supervise Resident Advisors and an Assistant Area Coordinator.
Conduct individual meetings and bi-annual evaluations.
Assist with selecting, training, development, and in-service activities for paraprofessional staff.
Coordinate summer responsibilities (Summer Area Coordinator, Summer Conferences, Damage Billing Appeals).
Coordinate collateral responsibilities (Student Staff Training, Student Staff Selection, Student Leadership).
Serve as senior advisor to RHA executive board and NRHH chapter.
Oversee student leadership conferences and Housing and Residence Life Banquet.
Promote a caring atmosphere conducive to student learning, academic success, and personal development.
Emphasize Marshall’s values (academic achievement, personal freedom & integrity, dignity and respect for the individual, diversity and inclusiveness, sustainability, and service).
Assess effectiveness of hall traditions & learning outcomes.
Encourage professionalism, role modeling, and positive communication.
Maintain high residence hall visibility and interaction.
Implement and manage residential curriculum and learning outcomes.
Develop positive working relationships with campus offices.
Facilitate academic initiatives (faculty collaboration, study groups, tutoring).
Advise and counsel students, making referrals when needed.
Manage student behavior through conduct sanctioning and advising.
Hear, adjudicate, and mediate student housing conduct process.
Facilitate roommate mediation.
Assist with university and housing recruitment, orientation, and retention efforts.
Implement departmental goals and objectives.
Responsible for facility management, housing operations, and housing processes.
Serve on an on-call duty rotation (nights, weekdays, weekends, holidays).
Maintain office hours and availability for residents.
Oversee residence hall desk operations.
Manage area and committee budgets and purchasing.
Exhibit effective time management and task execution.
Ability to work independently and with accuracy.
Work with confidence and maturity.
Understand confidentiality.
Participate in department initiatives (strategic planning, retention, programming, Housing Sign-ups, Week of Welcome, Opening/Closing).
Work collaboratively with department, division, Student Affairs, and university staff.
Enforce University and departmental policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

Supervise Resident Advisors and an Assistant Area Coordinator and conducts individual meetings, bi-annual evaluations, etc.
Contribute and encourage the development of positive working relationships with all residence life staff.
Attend and organize weekly staff meetings with building staff and/or departmental staff.
Assist with selecting, training, development and in-service activities for the paraprofessional staff.
Assist with coordination of fall & spring training as well as ongoing personal and professional staff development opportunities.
Coordinate one of the following over the summer months: Summer Area Coordinator, Summer Conferences, Damage Billing Appeals.
Coordinate one of the three following collaterals: Student Staff Training, Student Staff Selection, Student Leadership.
Mentor and be available to student leaders through RHA and NRHH.
Coordinate Student Leadership campus-wide fundraiser.
Serve as senior advisor to Residence Hall Association executive board.
Serve as senior advisor to National Residence Hall Honorary chapter.
Oversee participation and organizing of student leadership conferences.
Plan and facilitate the annual Housing and Residence Life Banquet.
Create and promote a caring atmosphere conducive to student learning, academic success, and to the personal development of residence hall students.
Promote an atmosphere that emphasizes Marshall’s values (academic achievement, personal freedom & integrity, dignity and respect for the individual, diversity and inclusiveness, sustainability, and service).
Work with Assistant Area Coordinators to assess effectiveness of hall traditions & learning outcomes.
Encourage behavior that demonstrates professionalism, role modeling, and positive communication.
Maintain a high level of residence hall visibility and interaction.
Implement and manage residential curriculum and learning outcomes in community.
Develop and maintain a positive and mutually supportive working relationship with all campus offices.
Facilitate and implement academic initiatives such as collaboration with faculty, promoting study groups and tutoring, working with relevant MU Marshall University academic offices.
Advise and counsel individual students, making referrals when needed.
Assist in the management of student behavior through conduct sanctioning and student advising.
Hear, adjudicate, and mediate student housing conduct process.
Facilitate roommate mediation process within your assigned community.
Assist with university and housing recruitment, orientation, and retention efforts.
Implement goals and objectives that are consistent with those of the Department of Housing and Residence Life.
Responsible for facility management, housing operations, and all housing processes in your community.
Serve on an on-call duty coverage rotation and responds to emergency or non-emergency situations for campus community on nights, weekdays, weekends and holidays.
Maintain office hours (as set by your supervisor) and uphold high degree of availability and visibility for all residents.
Oversee residence hall desk operations.
Effectively manage area and committee budgets, as well as conduct all purchasing for hall activities in accordance with state purchasing expectations.
Exhibit effective time management strategies and excellence in executing tasks.
Ability to take tasks and work independently and with accuracy.
Work with confidence and maturity; and understands confidentiality within appropriate settings.
Participate in department initiatives such as strategic planning, retention initiatives, departmental programming, Housing Sign-ups, Week of Welcome, Opening and Closing of residence halls.
Work collaboratively with others in the department, division, Student Affairs and university.
Enforce University and departmental policies and procedures.
Understand there will be other duties as assigned by supervisors.