Assistant Director of Residential Education (79435)
About The Position
The Assistant Director of Residential Education is a professional-level, full-time, live-on, 12-month position within the Department of Residential Life. As a key member of the central-office administrative team in the Residential Life department, the Assistant Director is responsible for establishing and executing the department’s goals, developing departmental systems, and managing staff in support of the department’s mission to create and develop a supportive educational environment that fosters learning outside of the classroom, develops students holistically, and supports the academic success, recruitment and retention of residential students. As a key leader in the department, this individual understands and upholds not only the department's mission, but the University’s mission as well and respects its Catholic values and identity.
Requirements
- Masters degree in Higher Education Administration, College Student Personnel, Counseling, or related field.
- Two to Four years of professional experience in Student Affairs Administration.
- Live-in Residence life experience strongly preferred.
- Experience in student development and leadership.
Responsibilities
- Serves as lead for RA training, including Fall and Spring/Winter training and ongoing in-service training/development throughout the year.
- Planning and organizing training schedules.
- Managing all logistics pertaining to training including booking spaces on campus, vendors and outside offices for presentations.
- Developing learning outcomes and appropriate assessments for the training programs and training as a whole.
- Serve as the lead for RA Recruitment and Hiring.
- Developing recruitment and hiring timeline annually.
- Creating and executing a marketing plan for the position including information sessions for perspective candidates.
- Oversight & development of the Front Desk program.
- Administrative oversight of NextGen and WhenToWork systems.
- Work in tandem with Director on all aspects of residential education and programming.
- Develop effective and appropriate assessment of residential education and programming in order to help inform the ongoing evaluation and effectiveness of Departmental efforts.
- Serves as a departmental liaison to the Division leadership training committee.
- Assist the Director in management of department budget and oversee fiscal procedures as it pertains to departmental programming.
- Supervise two full-time RHDs.
- Participate in Administrator On-Call duty rotation.
- Work in tandem with Director and Associate Director on RHD training and development plan.
- Work in tandem with Director and Associate Director for RHD, RA, and crisis management manual updates.
- Represent the department at the University and within assigned committees.
- Develop relationships with key departments that contribute to resident student development, satisfaction, and success.
- Participate in divisional and University-wide functions, programs, projects, and initiatives, including admissions recruitment events, and other activities.
- Co-Lead the department in the absence of the director.
- Other related responsibilities as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
