AY Residence Residential Facility Assistant; RFA); WS-ST

Residential Facility Assistant - Rfa (Ws-St3)

Classification:
Student Employee

Department Name:
Residence Life

Unit Number (5 digits): 15141

Length of Position:  Academic Year

Supervisor:
Associate Dean of Students for Residence Life & Student Conduct/Designee

Wage Range: $/hour

Description/Purpose of the Position:
The Residential Facility Assistant (Rfa) is a student staff position in the Office of Residence Life and works in conjunction with the Department of Facilities. This position's primary goal is to support Residence Life and the functional area, Housing Operations. Housing Operations manages, oversees, and/or liaises with the following areas: residential maintenance and custodial services, environmental health and safety, sustainability, break housing, summer transitions, and administrative tasks.

The position requires comfort with reading instructions, assembling items, organizing inventory, and conducting audits.

Transferable

Skills:

• Professionalism:
  Developing strong personal accountability, punctuality, and time management habits.
• Critical Thinking:
  Learning to identify, log, and troubleshoot facility issues or hazards

Position Responsibilities:

Maintenance & Custodial Support

• Move, lift, and transfer items within and between residence halls to meet operational needs
• Loft kits, bedding, storage rooms (including furniture)
• Build/construct items
• Bookcases, games, furniture
• Audit keys, pool tables, building supplies, etc
• Manage the work order reporting process, ensuring maintenance is reported and completed promptly
• Aid in monitoring the storage and use of all inventory in basements, rooms, and common areas in all residence halls
• Control access to residence hall storage
• Appropriate documentation of items placed in or claimed from storage
• Ensure storage guidelines are followed
• Assist in storage room maintenance as assigned
• Provide custodial support, including but not limited to sweep outs, wipe downs, and room supply prep

Fire Health & Safety:

• 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

Publications and Communication:

• 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

Residential Support:

• Community Development and Peer Advising
• RFAs shall support programming initiatives as requested by their professional supervisor
• RFAs shall develop positive relationships with the residents through formal and informal engagement efforts
• RFAs shall role model appropriate behavior within the residence hall to students and colleagues, abiding by and upholding College policies on a campus-wide basis.
• RFAs shall 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
• Conduct Facilitation
• RFAs shall 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

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Antiracism:

• RFAs shall demonstrate a commitment to advance equity, inclusion, and antiracism f through methods including, but not limited to: ongoing self-reflection and recognition of one's identities in the spaces they occupy; awareness, understanding of, and sensitivity to historic and ongoing injustices against marginalized identities present in the St. Olaf community; and an openness to engage with peers of different cultural backgrounds and social identities.

Administrative Responsibilities

• RFAs shall support their professional supervisor through administrative tasks as assigned, including but not limited to:
• Weekly RFA staff meetings
• Bi-weekly individual meetings with a professional supervisor
• Documentation…