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Job Posting Title:
Residence Coordinator
Position Type:
Professional / Unclassified
Department:
LSUAM AA - SA - ResLife - ED - Residential Operations (Michael Blaine Dobrin (00005305))
Work Location:
Grace King Hall - Office
Pay Grade:
Job Description:
Residence Coordinator
Reporting to an Assistant Director for Residential Education, the Residence Coordinator (RC) is a full-time, live-in professional staff member. The RC is responsible for the day-to-day operations of a residence hall or group of residence halls including graduate and undergraduate student staff supervision, community engagement and building management, crisis response, process administration, and general departmental responsibilities.
GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THIS POSITION INCLUDE:
Provide direct supervision, guidance, development, and support to a Graduate Residence Coordinator and a staff of undergraduate Resident Assistants.
Maintain visibility and presence within the assigned community, directing programming initiatives and providing support to students.
Serve as the primary point of contact for processes and administration within assigned community.
Serve as a member of the departmental on-call rotation, providing on-scene response to crises utilizing departmental protocol and procedures.
Contribute to departmental and divisional work through attendance and engagement at staff meetings, trainings, and events.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEADERSHIP:
Engage in Proactive Community Development
LSU is in the process of transforming work processes and institutional focus to a holistic retention-based lens on student success. Residence Coordinators have the opportunity to create meaningful community development in their assigned community to enhance students’ feeling a sense of home and connection to the larger institution.
Operate with a Student-Focused Lens
Residence Coordinators at LSU are asked to operate with a high level of responsiveness and investment in the residential students they oversee. Through a partnership with LSU CARES, our institutional team that handles reported concerns, RCs prioritize students by engaging in timely, supportive interventions with students in their residential community through the supervision of their staff, participation in the student conduct process and execution of administrative processes.
Participate in Solution-Oriented Thinking to Enhance the Student Experience
Successful Residence Coordinators operate with the design and focus on solving the problems that are placed in front of them. The RC must operate with the lens of always making things better today than they were yesterday, by pursuing a marginal gains approach to enhance the quality of the product we provide to students.
ATTRIBUTES OF THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE:
Collegial team-player who actively builds authentic and mutually beneficial relationships, who puts institutional priorities before their own interests, and who is unconcerned with where credit for accomplishing institutional objectives is assigned.
Track record of effective leadership and management that includes the development of staff, the ability to articulate clear expectations and provide timely feedback and the willingness to redirect behaviors, practices, or attitudes that are misaligned with institutional or divisional objectives, or that are inconsistent with the maintenance of a positive work environment.
Dedicated housing professional, who is interested in advancing their career in the field of Housing and Residential Life and understands the demands and challenges of working and living on-campus.
Maintains a strong appreciation for the…