Coordinator of Residence Residential Academic Engagement

Responsibilities

• Assists with the development and implementation of all Residential Learning Communities (RLCs) to improve and support student retention and success.
• Assists with the planning and implementation of the residential curriculum in collaboration with the Residential Student Engagement team and other Residence Life staff to support student engagement and community building.
• Manages the residential tutoring program including recruitment, hiring, training, and supervising the residential tutors in order to facilitate student learning opportunities.
• Oversees the use of early intervention tools and retention efforts to increase residential student retention.
• Develops and supports initiatives that recognize student academic success and support student academic success skills.
• Supervises and evaluates, as needed, departmental graduate staff or interns for the Residential Academic Engagement initiatives area to ensure their tasks are completed successfully and support their development.
• Manages and completes supply purchasing for activities in the residential learning communities to ensure successful implementation and student engagement.
• Supports the logistical setup and breakdown of Residential Academic Engagement events by regularly transporting folding tables, boxes/pallets of soda, snacks, and other program supplies to ensure smooth execution of key initiatives that foster academic and community engagement within residential spaces.

• Implements marketing and recruitment efforts including creation and management of both print and electronic materials to increase awareness and interest in residential learning communities.
• Manages regular communication with RLC stakeholders to ensure effective collaboration between teams.
• Works in collaboration with Residential Services and other university offices to recruit new RLC students, including coordination of and attendance at Preview Days and other admission events.
• Collects and tracks Residential Learning Community programming using a program tracker in order to assess goal achievements.
• Works with the supervisor on RLC linked courses, planning, and course collection for the Registrar to ensure RLC students are enrolled properly.
• Assists supervisor to evaluate and guide RLC partners on maintaining annual budgets ensuring proper spending and allocation of resources.
• Creates and supports methods to assess the achievement of residential learning community outcomes and student satisfaction to support student retention, success, and satisfaction.
• Supports the implementation and evaluation of all department and university wide assessment strategies in order to support broad efforts to measure effectiveness.
• Assists in RLC assignment processes utilizing software in collaboration with other departments to ensure accuracy of bed assignments.

• Collaborates with Residential Learning Community partners and stakeholders including students, faculty, staff, deans, and directors to implement RLC initiatives that promote student engagement, support student academic success, and strengthen the campus community.
• Meets monthly with RLC partners and Residence Life staff to discuss administrative updates and foster collaboration.
• Provides guidance and support to RLC partners in creating strategies and programming to meet the RLC and curriculum learning outcomes.
• Supports Community Directors in programming, curriculum implementation, RLC student staff support, and orientation to ensure RLC goals are achieved.
• Supports the RLC student staff programming by ensuring RLC student staff and RLC partners are conducting regular meetings, as well as training and development to ensure successful collaboration and timely planning of program initiatives.
• Works with RLC partners and RLC RAs on expectations for programmatic efforts and engagement requirements to improve consistency and effectiveness.
• Assists the supervisor in the creation of new partnerships to support academic student success, including with Student Success Coaching and other University Life offices.

• Serves as a live-in staff member and participates in an on-call rotation to respond promptly to residence hall incidents and support student safety as part of the residence life duty response team.
• Performs other related duties as assigned to support operations of RLC programs and Housing and Residence Life.
• Assists in fulfilling duties of vacant positions within the department, as relevant and needed to ensure continuity of essential department operations.
• Attends regularly scheduled departmental meetings to stay informed on department, division, and university needs and actions.
• Actively supports and complies with all University policies, HRL regulations, department vision and goals to promote a safe and healthy environment.
• Acts as 'essential personnel' in times of emergency and at critical times to provide proper support to…