Graduate Assistant - Residence Hall Director - Fall

UNIVERSITY HOUSING MISSION STATEMENT

University Housing provides residential experiences that empower students to succeed, engage with others, embrace diversity, and develop life skills.

• Be successful:
  Students will learn and develop skills to achieve success with their academics, job, finances, and their professional goals. Students will learn skills and abilities to contribute to their learning and be active participants in their personal growth and development.
• Be engaged and connected with others and the community:
  Students will feel a sense of belonging and connection to the UCM and local community. Students will gain skills to make meaningful connections to others and gain an acceptance and understanding of others.
• Embrace our diverse world and the importance of inclusion of all people:
  Students will learn and develop skills to enhance their lives through a broader understanding of relationships with others, society, and the world. Students will learn skills to demonstrate their role in an inclusive and caring community.
• Develop life skills and become self-aware:
  Students will learn and develop skills to achieve personal responsibility for living in a community, solving one’s problems, accepting personal role in challenges, failures, and successes, living a healthy lifestyle, and other life skills.

The Residence Hall Director provides leadership and direction to all students and staff living in the residence hall/apartments. Additionally, they are responsible for student staff supervision, training and development, outreach and counseling of residence hall students and problem solving within the hall. Reporting directly to the Assistant Director. The Residence Hall Director is an essential member of the leadership team in the Office of University Housing.

The Residence Hall Director is a required live-in Residence Hall position.

• Supervises daily performances of the undergraduate staff members. Participates in staff recruitment, selection, training and evaluation. Attends and participates in all required departmental staff meetings and trainings.
• Provides direction and information to staff in the following areas: programs, activities, counseling, administration, policy enforcement, and personal conduct.
• Develops and conducts staff training sessions.
• Prepares and supervises undergraduate staff duty/call schedules.
• Supervises Community Advisor staff which includes acknowledgment of positive contributions as well as confrontation when staff behavior is inappropriate.

• Facilitates the development of an environment which stimulates student responsibility and accountability within the residence hall system.
• Oversees, advises and assists in the planning of programs with students and staff in the residence hall. Such programs must consider the developmental needs of students, the coordination with classroom learning, and the broad educational emphasis.
• Consults and advises students on an individual and small group basis.
• Refer students to appropriate resources or helping agencies.
• Facilitates weekly staff and individual meetings.
• Assists in establishing a positive working relationship between the residence hall staff and the Housing leadership area.
• Acts as a judicial hearing officer for policy violations in the assigned hall. Handles referrals for policy violations, clarifies and interprets University and residence hall policies for students and staff, recommends appropriate sanctions for various offenses, follows up on all judicial matters, and provides timely judicial communications with students and staff.
• Eat meals in the dining halls to interact with residents and help with monitoring the dining hall experience.

• Reports to the Assistant Director of Residence Life.
• Communicates regularly with dining hall staff, office personnel, and other University officials.
• Monitors the physical upkeep and maintenance of the residence halls through job orders and communication with Assistant Director.
• Coordinates the accurate and timely completion of…