Assistant Director Residential Life - Specialty Living Graduate and Summer Programs
Assistant Director Residential Life - Specialty Living Graduate and Summer Programs
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Cornells oncampus living experience is comprised of two systems that operate separately the Office of Housing and Residential Life (HRL) unit (buildings on North and South campus) within Student and Campus Life and the West Campus House system (residential college system) within the Office of the Provost.
The Office of Housing and Residential Life staff are committed to providing a residential experience of the highest quality for each of our residents. This includes providing a safe comfortable diverse and purposeful living and learning environment aligned with the Universitys values and learning goals. Through partnerships with University faculty and staff HRL staff foster students personal growth critical thinking intellectual engagement and social responsibility that is designed to educate challenge and develop our students.
Pillars of our Residential Experience
Belonging at Cornell
Social Responsibility
Academic Empowerment
Culture of Care
Navigating Transitions
The Housing and Residential Life program includes cooperative houses graduate and professional student housing Program Houses with focused identity and/or themed living environments a focused FirstYear Residential Experience on North Campus and a unique upper division and transfer student experience on North and South Campus. Our department serves approximately 8000 students with a twoyear residential requirement. In addition there is significant faculty engagement in the residential communities with facultyinresidence living in the firstyear communities and over 110 faculty and community members spread throughout all the residential communities.
Housing & Residential Life at Cornell University is going through a significant organizational transformation to enhance the residential experience. To advance these efforts we are excited to launch the search for four Assistant Director positions in Residential Life. These positions consist of the following individuals must apply to each position separately if interested in multiple positions:
Assistant Director of Community Engagement & Leadership Development
Assistant Director of Specialty Living Graduate Housing & Summer Programs
Assistant Director of Staff Selection & Development (Student Staff)
Assistant Director of Student Behavior & Support (Conduct)
The Assistant Director Residential Life Specialty Living Graduate and Summer Programs reports to the Associate Director of Residential Education in Residential Life and serves as a member of the departments leadership team. The Assistant Director supports the development management and evaluation of Residential Life programs within Housing & Residential Life which houses approximately 9200 students in the Division of Student & Campus Life at Cornell University serving a campus of 24000 students. This role leads and manages specialty living programs (thematic & cooperative communities) including academic special interest identitybased programs and selfgoverned housing programs aligned with residential experience and specific program goals for each option for North and South Campus communities aligned with the residential experience and organizational priorities while focusing on first and secondyear and graduate students in collaboration with campus partners.
The Assistant Director also oversees community engagement and support services for graduate and family housing students aligned with the residential experience and focused on graduate student priorities. This position also collaborates with the Associate Director for Residential Education and academic partners to oversee and manage summer programs including summer sessions bridge and precollege programs. The Assistant Director supervises livein staff and student employees and manages the residential experience and operations for assigned communities for undergraduate graduate and cooperative students. In addition this role supports financial management marketing and crossfunctional operational processes and planning as well as participates in oncall responding to crisis as needed.
This is a fulltime 12month liveoff position. The salary range of this position is $78500 $81000. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
Success Factors:
- Ability to implement and oversee specialty living programs (thematic and cooperative communities) graduate community engagement and student support efforts aligned with the residential experience.
- Ability to supervise develop mentor and motivate a large and diverse professional and student staff team.
- Exceptional interpersonal communication planning reasoning organizational and project management skills with an ability to multitask in a fastpaced highvolume environment.
- A commitment to working collaboratively in a studentcentered environment dedicated to the important values of shared governance with enthusiasm for supporting a student body that is broadly diverse with regard to gender race ethnicity national origin socioeconomic status sexual and gender identity religion and (dis)ability among other factors.
- Ability to build relationships and maintain trust assess and balance the needs of various campus partners and identify and advocate for achievable solutions to highlevel situations.
While position responsibilities vary all people leaders are expected to foster a culture of belonging and a psychologically healthy work environment by being trustworthy; respecting all individuals; being flexible; supporting work/life integration as well as healthy boundaries; inviting new ideas alternatives and perspectives; speaking up and taking action if others are being excluded or treated inappropriately; and recognizing the contributions of others.
Required Qualifications:
- Masters degree in student affairs higher education counseling or a related field with a minimum of three 3 to five 5 years of professional experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience in residential life with managing community engagement efforts and supporting first and secondyear students.
- Applied knowledge of student development theory and fostering inclusive engaging livinglearning environments.
- Experience working with and leading learningliving communities and/or other themed residential communities.
- Knowledge of oncampus graduate student needs.
- Knowledge of academic initiatives in residence halls including faculty engagement and academic support services.
- Experience supervising training and developing residential life professional and halllevel staff.
- Demonstrated crisis management skills including problemsolving and critical thinking with the ability to serve oncall and effectively respond to crises as needed.
- Demonstrated success in building collaborative partnerships with students parents/families faculty and campus partners.
- Knowledge of assessment strategies for livinglearning communities or other thematic residential communities.
- Knowledge of budget management processes.
- Knowledge of residential life and housing best practices and industry trends.
- Knowledge of housing policies and compliance with university state and federal regulations (e.g. ADA FERPA Fair Housing Act).
- Ability to occasionally work nights and weekends (e.g. Opening Family Weekend Commencement all staff training and selection processes etc..
- Demonstrated skill in understanding of cultural differences.
- Experience leading managing and evaluating learningliving communities and/or other themed residential communities.
- Previous experience managing residential life programs in a large complex university setting especially within an Ivy League Big Ten or similarly competitive institution.
- Experience working with faculty and campus partners to develop implement and assess a comprehensive residential experience for all students.
- Experience working with graduate students and families.
- Experience working with selfgoverned cooperativestyle residential communities.
- Experience leading professional and halllevel staff through an identityconscious approach.
- Familiarity with housing management and student behavior software (e.g. StarRez Guardian or similar platforms)
- Strong project management skills and committee oversight.
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