Residence Housing Assistant Director

Cambridge Information Group Inc•New York, NY

3d•$29•Onsite

About The Position

With New York City as their home and classroom, Sotheby’s Summer Institute students are immersed in the most vibrant global art capital with auction houses, blue chip and emerging galleries, world class museums, artists’ studios, private collections, arts foundations, and much more right in their backyard. Summer Institute provides students with an environment to learn, investigate, and explore the art world while forming life-long connections with friends and mentors. This unique pre-college program offers three two-week sessions each with exclusive, academically rigorous courses and bespoke activities and events designed to engage, inspire, and fuel creativity. All courses are taught by leading art world experts and academics on a university campus in the heart of New York City. Vogue Summer School invites high schoolers to immerse themselves in one of the most important fashion capitals in the world: New York City. Opening the doors to a unique world of excellence and creativity, students will explore a wealth of topics shaping fashion today and in the future through the expert eye of the world’s most famous and influential fashion magazine: Vogue. Run by Condé Nast College of Fashion and Design, Vogue Summer School provides a world-class fashion education along with unrivalled access to the best and brightest minds in the industry. Our instructors are award-winning Vogue and Condé Nast journalists, including the teams at Glamour, GQ, and a host of other Condé Nast titles, as well as industry experts and recognized thought leaders in the business and strategic sides of the fashion, media and luxury lifestyle industries. Knowledge is our passion. We thrive at the intersection of business and education and have built a global reputation for developing world-class learning programs to nurture the industry leaders of tomorrow. Our mission is to empower lives through education. We seek to understand the passions of a new generation of students to help transform those passions into meaningful and fulfilling career trajectories. We do this by delivering relevant, experiential courses taught by industry experts from the world’s best brands. BrandEd has been operating for two decades beginning with the acquisition of the London campus of Sotheby’s Institute of Art in 2003. Over the years we have built a portfolio of world-class academic programs with iconic brands including Sotheby’s Institute of Art, The School of the New York Times (est. 2016), and Conde Nast College of Fashion & Design (acquired in 2023). BrandEd is owned by Cambridge Information Group (CIG), a family-owned investment firm since 1971 focused on long-term and meaningful ventures in education, technology, and information services. The RHAD is a key leadership position for our pre-college programs and will play a vital role in ensuring the program’s success. This is a live-in position with specific duties and responsibilities which include but are not limited to the list below:

Requirements

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States
Bachelor’s degree
2+ years of related work experience
Must be CPR certified or be willing to obtain prior to start of program.
Two references required
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Excellent command of the English language.
All staff will be working closely with minors and will need to pass a criminal background check and successfully complete all training.
All positions will require use of one’s personal cell phone.
Ability to sit, stand, walk, travel up and down stairs, crouch, stoop, and reach.
Ability to lift to 25 lbs.

Nice To Haves

Prior work in a university program, boarding school, or as guidance counselor is particularly desirable.
Ability to speak another language a plus.

Responsibilities

Assist in all administrative details including:
Residential Check-In and Check-Out
Key Inventory
Staff evaluations
Community Building
Facilitate training during Student Orientation;
Lead weekly residence life staff meetings for your team;
Meet with staff who display behavior concerns and facilitate conduct meetings as necessary;
Attend weekly leadership meetings and manage all on-going development for residence staff and will relay pertinent information on these topics to the students in a suitable and timely manner;
Attend co-curricular events and activities;
Manage student interactions using student management software;
Act as a mentor and role model to PCs, students and staff through everyday actions and good decision-making;
Serve On-Call Duty and Back Up On-Call shifts (see below);
Communicate with parents/guardians regarding student needs and concerns;
Mediate conflicts as they arise
Answer the Emergency Phone during the length of shift, including overnight phone calls while on shift.
Respond to calls in a timely manner and follow the program’s Escalation Protocols that matches the incident being called in.
Call Full-Time On-Call for guidance and escalation, when appropriate.
If required, travel with student/staff to hospital and/or police station and give Emergency Phone to Back Up On-Call.
Records all incidents in a nightly log.