Assistant Director for Living-Learning Communities and Community Development Job Listing at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA (Job ID 21168)

Description

Gonzaga University is currently recruiting for the position of Assistant Director of Residence Life. This full-time, 12 month, live-on position provides leadership for professional and student staff in an area of campus with approximately 1500 residents. The incumbent serves a critical role in the supervision of full-time, live-in Residence Directors as well as the establishment, growth, and maturation of the department's living learning communities. Utilizing sound, informed judgment, Assistant Directors function with substantial autonomy to realize the mission, vision, and goals of the institution, division, and department within their area of responsibility.

The budgeted annual salary that the University reasonably expects to offer for this position is $51,540 – $58,431. The full internal range is $51,965 – $70,304. 

Essential Functions

• Supervise Residence Director(s) and Graduate Assistant(s) for Living Learning Communities.
• Collaborate with the Graduate Assistant(s) for Living Learning Communities to lead and train the peer mentors.
• Create opportunities and actively participate in encouraging team development through multiple mechanisms and support recognition efforts that build team morale.
• Meet operational targets, develop innovative solutions, and continuously improve department and efforts.
• Support and contribute to student and professional staff hiring efforts that meet departmental needs.
• Actively build relationships within the department and demonstrate an interest in fostering a collaborative environment.
• Respond to students' and families' concerns with an ethic of care, concern, and excellent customer service.
• Address and manage high-level conflict that may arise in the residence halls.
• Develop and coordinate, in partnership with supervisees, ongoing professional development efforts.
• Provide constructive feedback and effectively guide supervisees to excel within their role.

• Facilitate and encourage the establishment, growth, and maturation of living-learning communities and intentional residential communities.
• Oversee the creation and support of living-learning communities, providing strategic direction and leadership for the development, implementation, and improvement of living-learning communities.
• Cultivate strong partnerships with academic programs, units, student affairs services, and other stakeholders to design and implement living-learning programs that support the university's mission and vision.
• In collaboration with the Director for Residence Life, coordinate the departmental residential education and community building efforts.
• Strengthen the Housing and Residence Life community development model through assessment efforts to evaluate the model's effectiveness.
• Train staff in implementing community development initiatives within the residence halls.
• Work collaboratively with the housing operations team to plan for the successful integration of learning communities.
• Provide support and training for residence hall staff to successfully implement and sustain living learning communities.
• Effectively communicate goals/services of the living-learning community program and make oral presentations.
• Collect and report retention, learning outcomes, and satisfaction data as it relates to living learning communities.

• Create and maintain vibrant communities and contribute to the development of the whole person—mind, body, and spirit.
• Coordinate strategy and directives for all assigned campus-wide Residence Life initiatives.
• Assist in the development of the departmental strategic plan.
• Act as a university agent in coordinating university response regarding the operations of the residence halls.
• Direct all aspects of residence hall management for buildings in their respective areas, including fiscal, short—and long-range planning, and facilities oversight.
• Oversee the use of a program budget for the area encompassing anywhere from $25,000 to $45,000, including student-employee-related payroll.
• Set and communicate expectations for professional staff in their area of responsibility.
• Assist in facilitation, when needed, weekly department-wide meetings.

• Direct opportunities for student growth and community development that reflect the university's Jesuit, Catholic, and humanistic mission.
• Facilitate and direct department, division, and institutional initiatives through collaborative work efforts.
• Serve as a judicial officer for the Resolution Center for Student Conduct and Conflict, taking primary responsibility for coordinating conduct interventions.
• Participate as a member of the university on-call system for after-hours and crisis response.

• Other tasks as requested by the Department.

• Master's Degree in College Student Affairs or related field.
• Three (3) years previous professional Residence Life or Student Affairs experience.
• Demonstrated passion and commitment to college student life.
• Related professional experience in student behavioral interventions, student staff recruitment, selection, training, supervision, fiscal management of residence hall budgets, group advising.
• Understanding and support of the Jesuit, humanistic mission of a Catholic, liberal arts university.

• Significant experience with residence hall program development, outcomes design and assessment.
• Previous graduate or professional staff supervision experience.
• Understanding of challenges and barriers faced by communities around ethnicity, race, class, gender, privilege and oppression.
• Knowledge and understanding of the issues surrounding equity, diversity, inclusion, implicit bias, institutional racism, and other systemic oppressions.

• Remain in a stationary position majority of the time.
• Ability to prep for and attend meetings and events across campus in various weather conditions.
• Wrist and hand movement related to computer work.
• Bend, stoop, kneel, stretch and reach.
• Pick-up, carry and move items up to 25 lbs.