Residential & Learning Community Coordinator

Residential Experience & Living Learning Community Coordinator

Job Category:
Admin

Full-Time

On-site

University of Redlands Redlands, CA 92374, USA

Department/Administration:
Office of Student Affairs

Position:
Administrative, Exempt (12 months), Full-time (40 Hours)

Salary Range: $70,304-$70,304

Hiring Range:
Anticipated hiring range is near or at the minimum of the classification, commensurate with candidate's education, experience, skills, and training.

Introductory Period:
Twelve (12) Months

Available:
Immediately

Posting Date:
June 12, 2026

Final date to receive applications:
Open Until Filled, Apply Immediately.

Developed in 1969, the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies is one of the oldest academic living-learning communities in the country and a signature program at the University of Redlands. Students live and learn together in the Johnston dorm, where there are classrooms, creative spaces, a meditation room, a commuter lounge, and a music room. As students in an intentional, consensus-based community, Johnston students work together to use their community budget to bring in speakers, host live music and other events, and support community and academic projects.

Central to Johnston is self-governance, which empowers students to make decisions about how best to live and learn together. Johnston also uses a restorative justice approach to conduct order to restore and repair community harm. Reporting to the Associate Dean of Residence Life, Housing and Student Wellbeing, the Residential Experience Coordinator is a member of the University of Redlands Residence Life and Housing staff who has a responsibility for the direct oversight of the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies' residential community and provides leadership for the expansion of living learning communities within the University of Redlands' overall Residential Experience program.

Liaising closely with the Johnston Program Director and faculty, the Residential Experience Coordinator is expected to take an active role in both maintaining the traditions and the continued development of a transformational Residential Experience and living learning community program that drives student retention and success. The dynamic Residential Experience Coordinator has a visible and approachable campus presence, fostering student campus life engagement, community belonging, education and development, group and individual mediation and caring follow-up on personal, academic, medical and social issues.

This is a 12-month full-time live-in position in a rent-free apartment.

The duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Community Development and Engagement
• Development, Training and Supervision of Student Leaders
• Residence Life and Housing Operations
• Emergency Response and Crisis Intervention

Any combination equivalent to, but not limited to, the following:

Experience/Training/

Education:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master's degree in student affairs, higher education leadership, higher education counseling, or a related field.
• Two years experience working in a residential community and/or within a residential living learning community in residence life in higher education.
• Experience working with and supporting underrepresented, neurodivergent, first-generation student, and actively involved student change maker subpopulations.
• Understanding of student development theory and its application to the student-centered experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability and interest in working with a diverse population.
• Experience delivering holistic student care.
• Demonstrated skills in leadership, hiring and supervision, group facilitation, advising, training, programming, community development, and conduct.
• Demonstrated skills in mediation processes and crisis intervention.
• Strong verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to perform under pressure, relate positively to people, and to motivate others to function as a fully participative member of a team.
• Working knowledge of student support service units which work closely with Residence Life and Housing.
• Ability to…