Residence and Student Life Manager

Job Description

The Residence and Student Life Manager provides leadership in executing the vision of the residential campus experience within the Residence and Student Life team. The Manager’s responsibilities include facilitating daily student housing operations, including resident lifecycle processing, facility management, emergency response protocols, student conduct reporting, and participation in on-call coverage.

The role also collaborates to program student events, intramural activities, student organizations, student employment, and new student orientation services. This position also participates in setting department goals and assessment of outcomes.

• Supports and promotes the University’s strategic plan, with an emphasis on the residential student experience.
• Facilitates day-to-day operational activities of the University’s student housing to include application process, room and roommate assignment, resident move in and move out processes, resident communications, responding to emergency situations, reporting conduct issues, conflict mediation, managing maintenance issues, participating in on-call coverage, etc.
• Partners with various departments such as Campus Security, Maintenance, Compliance, and Dean of Students to ensure the health, safety, security, and welfare of students and is in compliance with all relevant policies, procedures, standards, and laws.
• Hires, trains, and supervises Resident Assistants and coordinates student staff schedule.

• Collaborates to successfully plan across departments and with vendors to facilitate student activities including New Student Orientation, BRUIN Week, Personal Enrichment Program, wellbeing and prevention programs, and residence life engagement.
• Manages communication platforms such as the campus mobile app, department social media, and event promotion.
• Coordinates student organization participation, status, and assessment of objectives.
• Supports the student employment program for Federal Work Study and Student Worker positions on campus.
• Hires, develops, and manages assigned student worker staff.

• Participates in on-call staffing rotation; including supervision of Resident Assistants, timely response to emergency situations, appropriate escalation of conduct issues, and reporting of maintenance issues.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Relationship Savvy - Must be able to read people and connect meaningfully with variety of personalities.
• Detail Oriented - Ability to organize information as to deliver on a best in class customer experience for students and clients. Ability to analyze the details to make good decisions regarding IQ generating activities.
• Appetite for Learning - Always open to training and development leading to continuous personal growth.
• Problem Solver - Has the ability to identify and process the individual elements of a task, issue or challenge and find an appropriate solution.
• Self-Motivated / Pro Active - Ability to look for new opportunities within scope of job and suggest ideas to then take action.
• Ultra Responsive - Work quickly to address and resolve customer and student issues.
• Driven and Strategic - Ability to think creatively in order to drive more IQs through outreach within organizations, even when it is challenging.
• Student focus - the ability to keep the student at the center of what we do, and why we do it. Exhibits passion about improving the educational experiences of our students by creating lasting partnerships with employers, community colleges, school districts, and the community.
• Inclusivity - Understands that each individual is unique; recognizes individual differences along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, mental or physical disability, marital status, veteran status, education, training, position, and level of authority, seniority, full-time or part-time status.

College degree in Higher Education Administration, Public Administration, Counseling, Business, or equivalent required.

Minimum of…