Brief Summary of Job Description

The Senior Residence Hall Coordinator is a leader with the live-on team and charged with being part of the Res Ed Leadership to support administrative functions. Supervises, coach, and mentor hall personnel and total educational and developmental programs within a residence hall to support the academic pursuits of residents living in the residence hall; advise hall government officers, committees, boards, groups and individual students to support student success; selects, trains and evaluates staff; conducts disciplinary meetings and/or makes referrals to create a supportive academic environment; establishes relationship with custodial and maintenance staff; serves on departmental and University committees that support the academic mission of the University; initiates and implements hall financial procedures; maintains all records; and represents the Office of Residence Life to parents, guests and members of the university community.

Job Duties

Supervision: Primary responsibility for the selection, training and supervision of RA’s in hall/community: Possible Secondary Supervision of a Graduate Hall Directors. Conduct formal and informal evaluations. Foster an environment based on integrity and high ethical standards and provide appropriate resource and support to help RAs eliminate obstacles and meet/exceed goals. Foster professional and personal development among team. Develop community. Establish rapport with other campus commitments.
Counseling/advising: Engage in individual and group advisement; Resource and referral; agent to other campus or community agencies. Inform students of all university policies. Educate students on policy, accountability, and critical thinking. Student conduct: Insure due process to all students in conduct cases. Adjudicate cases of alleged student misconduct. Assist students in taking responsibility. Facilitate and mediate roommate conflict resolution in a developmental manner.
Communication: Provide timely, accurate and candid information on critical issues to colleagues, superiors, and subordinates. Present information or data in an efficient and understandable format. Establish working relationship with custodial and maintenance staff.
Programming: Supervise RAs in developmental programming. Support educational objectives of department. Assist in developing processes, procedures, policies, and programs that create an educational and student oriented climate. Develop a working knowledge of a college/department related to learning communities.
Emergency preparedness: provide staff with thorough training and practice of emergency procedures. Provide for daily staff coverage. Assist all university and community agencies in the event of an emergency. Share on call duty rotation for halls.
Administrative: familiar with appropriate university policies. Maintain accurate and up-to-date records for budget. Coordinate Early Arrival process. Serve on departmental and university wide committees. Advise departmental student groups. Manage summer housing process/staff. (These tasks are to be divided between Residence Life Coordinators). Timely and accurate completion of paperwork. Maintain department database, daily.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree, One year of live-in experience

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s Degree in Student Affairs, College Student Personnel Administration, or Related Field.
Two or more years of direct supervision of Residence Assistants, on call duty rotation experience, experience serving as a judicial hearing officer, hall government advising experience, and experience with budgeting.

Physical Demands

Lift, carry, push and pull up to 24 pounds. Most of the position is working at a desk.

Schedule

Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm; Evening hours are required for student and staff activities.

Desired Start Date

06/01/2023

Is this position temporary?

No

Position End Date (if temporary)

Special Instructions to Applicant

Special Conditions for Eligibility

Posting Number

S20230037P

Close Date

Open Until Filled

Yes

Application Review Date: Initial application review will begin on this date. Applications received prior to this date will be considered. Applications received after the review date may be considered.

04/14/2023

For questions regarding the online application process, please contact:

For questions regarding the position, please contact:

Trelana Daniel, danieltd@unk.edu

Benefits Eligible

100%