Residential Advisor

Residential Advisor

Miami Job Corps Center is HIRING! The Miami Job Corps Center is seeking an energetic, dependable, and student-focused Residential Advisor to join our team. If you enjoy mentoring young adults, creating a positive environment, and helping others reach their full potential, we want to hear from you!

Work Where the Action Is! Our Center is located in beautiful Miami Gardens, Florida, near Hard Rock Stadium — home of the Miami Dolphins!

As a Residential Advisor, you'll play an important role in creating a safe, structured, supportive, and positive living environment for our students. You'll serve as a mentor, role model, and source of encouragement while helping young adults develop the behaviors, confidence, independence, and life skills needed for success in Job Corps and beyond.

This is more than supervising a dormitory. It's an opportunity to positively influence a young person's future every day.

As part of our Residential Living team, you will:

• Mentor and guide students in developing positive attitudes, appropriate behaviors, independence, and personal responsibility.
• Create a positive residential environment that encourages respect, accountability, teamwork, and peer leadership.
• Provide guidance, counseling, group sessions, and independent living skills development.
• Patrol and monitor dormitories and Center areas to help maintain student safety and appropriate behavior.
• Identify concerns, resolve problems, and arrange student visits with counselors when appropriate.
• Support student activities, including unit government and leadership opportunities.
• Model appropriate behaviors and reinforce Career Success Standards through mentoring and intervention.
• Maintain student files, case notes, daily operations reports, pass lists, and other required documentation.
• Assist students with maintaining a clean, safe, and welcoming residential environment.
• Recommend or requisition supplies necessary for dormitory operations and student safety.
• Provide positive, quality customer service to students, staff, and other Center customers.
• Support, promote, and enforce the Job Corps Zero Tolerance Policy.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

Required:

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum of one year of Job Corps or related program experience.
• Regular and predictable attendance.
• Ability and willingness to work overtime when directed.

Preferred:

• Advanced education or degree.
• Valid in-state Driver's License.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

The position requires the ability to perform activities including sitting, standing, walking, climbing, reaching, stooping, crouching, carrying, pushing, pulling, and lifting.

Candidates must be able to lift up to 40 pounds and/or appropriately assess a load and request assistance when necessary.

BE MORE THAN AN EMPLOYEE — BE A MENTOR!

At the Miami Job Corps Center, every employee has an opportunity to make an impact. Our Residential Advisors are an important part of helping students develop the confidence, discipline, leadership skills, and independence they need to build successful careers and brighter futures.

If you're dependable, compassionate, energetic, and ready to help young adults succeed, your next career opportunity is waiting for you!