Community Director

Note. This role is a required live-on campus position.

The Community Director (CD) reporting to an Assistant Director for Residential Districts or to a Program Manager is a member of the Residential Education team. This individual provides residents and student-staff living in the dorm with support and leadership, promotes an inclusive community, educates about residential community standards, and provides crisis response and management.

This position offers a hybrid work arrangement, combining on-site work with remote work flexibility.

Housing & Residential Life (Housing), a self-funded auxiliary housed within Campus Life at the University of Arizona, operates 23 dorms and 1 graduate apartment complex that house over 7,800 students annually on the University of Arizona Main Campus. More than 80% of on-campus residents are first-year students. Our dorms range in style from historic to modern and range in size from 60 to 1000 residents.

While the University does not require students to live on campus, more than 70% of all incoming first-year students choose to live in UA housing to help their transition to university life.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Outstanding U of A benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; U of A/ASU/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; retirement plans; access to U of A recreation and cultural activities; and more!

• Manage building communities ranging from 60-1,020; 6-26 Resident Assistants, and possibly aGraduate Community Director, Lead RA, and/or Office Assistant.
• Facilitate individual one-on-one meetings with staff to engage in ongoing professional and community development, review student and facilities concerns, and evaluate staff.
• Oversee weekly staff meetings to review Wildcat Living Student Engagement Model, departmental notices,student and facilities updates, and ongoing training.
• Administer staff selection and evaluate processes.
• Aid in the development and execution of departmental trainings around interpersonal communication, relationship building, conflict mediation, crisis management,and cultural competency skills.
• Community Development:
  • Develop apositive and inclusive working and living environment for staff and students by implementing and evaluating Wildcat Living Student Engagement Model emphasizing
    
    Focus Areas of Wildcat Spirit and Traditions, Academic Success, and Wellbeing.
• Behavioral Education Management:
  • Provide crisis intervention and resources to residents and staff in need while serving oncampus-wide on-call duty rotation.
  • Serve ashearing officer and facilitate students conduct meetings on a weekly basis topromote opportunities for student accountability and reflection.
• Advising:
  • Advise Hall Council student leaders and oversee the development of their leadership and advocacy skills.
• Administration and General Expectations:
  • Perform avariety of administrative duties including, but not limited to, assessments,reports, occupancy and budgetary management, purchasing and processing receipts, and payroll, health and safety checks, facilitating residence hall opening and closing.

• Knowledge and understanding of supporting marginalized students or underrepresented students.
• Excellent interpersonal relationships skills.
• Strong abilityto effectively lead teams of students.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Power Point, Word, Teams and Zoom.
• Ability to participate as a positive team player.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

This job posting reflects the general nature and level of work expected of the selected candidate(s). It is not intended to be an…