AY Residence Life Residential Health & Safety Manager (RHSM) (WS-ST3)

St. Olaf College • Northfield, MN

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Residential Health & Safety Manager (RHSM) is a student staff position within the Office of Residence Life, primarily supporting Housing Operations. This role focuses on facilities, residence halls, environmental health and safety, sustainability, and administrative tasks. The RHSM reports to the Associate Dean of Students for Residence Life & Student Conduct or their designee.

Requirements

• Minimum cumulative/semester GPA of 2.5
• Good academic standing
• No open sanctions
• Background or coursework in public health, safety, risk management, or a related field.
• Prior experience navigating crisis situations (e.g., lifeguard, first responder, or Resident Assistant).
• Strong conflict resolution skills to handle tense situations and enforce university policy fairly.
• Demonstrated capability to train and educate peer staff on emergency response protocols.
• Advanced communication skills to articulate critical safety mandates clearly during high-stress moments.
• High attention to detail for conducting thorough health inspections and identifying safety hazards.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with campus security, facilities, and local emergency services
• Successful completion of a criminal background check after hire.

Nice To Haves

• Serving as a primary role model for safety compliance and training peer staff on emergency response protocols.
• Articulating complex safety mandates clearly and compassionately to the residential community during high-stress situations

Responsibilities

• Periodic supervision of Residential Facility Assistants (RFAs)
• Receive, sort, and distribute supplies and conduct inventory audits
• Receive and properly distribute phone calls, mail, emails, and other communications
• Support data entry and assist with creating and maintaining department files, records, and storage systems (physical and electronic)
• Assist with housing records, damage bills, etc.
• Attend all training, in-services, and development meetings requested by the Residence Life Office
• Manage office email accounts
• Support the opening and closing of the office
• Conduct building walk-throughs
• Conduct room inspections and inventories
• Assist HOC on fire drills and drug sweeps
• Escort vendors within the residence halls
• Support the evaluation of residential safety initiatives
• Identification, documentation, and reporting of maintenance/facilities/health and safety concerns or emergencies
• Coordinate room health and safety checks
• Outreach to on-campus residents on safety and security concerns
• Maintain bulletin board material for ADOFS boards in halls
• Coordinate education material for issues related to topics, including mold/mildew/pest control and sustainability
• Assist in the training of contracted security staff
• Generate reports on contracted security monthly/semester to the supervisor
• Conduct performance and quality inspections on contracted staff
• Conduct a monthly meeting with contracted staff leadership
• Coordinate Campus Housing Safety Walks
• Coordinate quarterly checks of surveillance cameras
• Coordinate updates of manuals, including but not limited to the Building Emergency Awareness Plan (BEAP)
• Maintain supply of needed forms for facilities area: sustainability and recycling materials and signage, cleaning checklists, fire safety checklists, check-in/out forms, check-in packet material, and fire safety brochures
• Aid in creating and updating files on health and safety
• Create signs for halls as needed to update on facility-related issues
• Maintain marketing materials for the facilities team
• Communicate with students and staff regarding facility and emergencies in various media forms (email, signage, documents, letters, etc.)
• Prepare opening/closing material packets for staff and signage for students
• Support programming initiatives as requested by their professional supervisor
• Develop positive relationships with the residents through formal and informal engagement efforts
• Role model appropriate behavior within the residence hall to students and colleagues, abiding by and upholding College policies on a campus-wide basis
• Assist residents in need within the scope of their training, including referral to various campus resources and triaging student concerns to the appropriate professional staff
• Address breaches of College policy (as outlined in the student code of conduct) through the appropriate confrontation of the responsible parties and documentation of these incidents
• Bi-weekly individual meetings with a professional supervisor
• Documentation of on-duty activities
• Weekly reports
• Program Evaluations
• Adherence to any blackout dates provided by professional staff to ensure adequate staffing during high-need periods
• Other duties assigned

Benefits

• Wage: Any administrative hours worked outside of the on-call rotation will be paid at an hourly rate

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed