Residence Hall Director

* Oversee, support, and evaluate Resident Assistants in planning and implementation of events and activities based on the departmental Community Development Plan.
* Maintain an awareness of events and activities taking place in the area of assignment as well as on campus, including attending events when practical.
* Establish personal and professional relationships with residents in area of assignment.
* Actively promote an environment in which individual students’ rights and the Standards of Residence are continually upheld.
* Develop and implement new ideas and concepts to improve the quality of life within the Residence Halls.
* Submit timely, accurate, and concise reports to keep the Assistant Director of Housing & Residence Life apprised of hall events.
* Establish and maintain a Resident Assistant semester duty schedule for daily supervision of the Residence Halls, including evenings, weekends, and holiday breaks.
* Understand and disseminate emergency procedures and guidelines to paraprofessional staff, residents, and outside cooperating agencies.
* Serve as part of an on-call rotation to respond to and support paraprofessional staff members through emergencies, urgent matters, and policy violations on campus.
* Collaborate with local and college authorities in responding to emergencies.
* Set, post, and maintain both in-building office hours and office hours in the Housing Office daily during normal business hours. Evening office hours are encouraged.
* This position requires a non-traditional work schedule by providing duty coverage for the assigned area, which may include weekends and holidays.
* Bachelor’s Degree in related field
* Two (2) years of experience in Residence Life or Student Affairs
* Experience living in campus housing.
* Demonstrated desire to positively influence the lives of students and create a positive community that is conducive to academic success.
* Proven excellence in organizational skills, sensitivity for a robust student population, and an ability to work in collaboration with students, faculty, and staff.
* Knowledge of college student development (theory and practice).
* Demonstrated commitment to supporting the needs of students from underrepresented populations.
* Experience implementing programs and services geared toward meeting the needs of students from underrepresented backgrounds.
* Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Part 106 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, including in admission and employment. Inquiries about the application of Title IX and CFR 106 to Adams State University (ASU) may be directed to ASU's Office of Equal Opportunity, Director Ana Guevara, and/or to the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights of the Department of Education.

Support resources for sexual misconduct, ASU's  sexual misconduct policies, contact information for the Adams State University's Office of Equal Opportunity & Title IX, as well as a detailed  procedure for filing a grievance due to discrimination on the basis of sex may be found online at  .  These  procedures also describe the University's response to reports and/or complaints of sex discrimination or sexual harassment.
* Adams State University is a state-supported, regional comprehensive university located in the San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado and the city of Alamosa. As the state’s premier Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and a Minority Serving Institution (MSI), over 50 percent of its undergraduate students represent racially diverse backgrounds.

A high percentage of undergraduate students are first-generation and Pell eligible. The university offers undergraduate programs in the arts and humanities, physical and natural sciences, mechanical engineering and computer science, social sciences, kinesiology, fine arts, business, and nursing, and specializes in educator preparation in several disciplines.

Adams State also offers graduate degrees in cultural resource management, public administration, music education, kinesiology, higher education administration and leadership, history, business (MBA), and educator programs, including counselor education; the university also has a doctoral (PhD) program in counselor education. The university has an active athletic program. The Adams State Grizzlies athletic teams compete under the auspices of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC).  

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