Community Director
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$ 44000 - 47500
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Job Description
Department: University Housing
Appointment Type and Duration: Regular Ongoing
Salary: $44000 $47500 per year
Compensation Band: OSOA03Fiscal Year
FTE: 1.0
Anticipated start: Immediate
Application Review Begins
November 17 2024; position open until filled
Special Instructions to Applicants
To ensure consideration please include the following with your online application:
1. A current resume or CV
2. Cover letter
3. Names and contact information for three professional references
Candidates will be notified prior to references being contacted. Any application missing the above information may be considered incomplete.
Department Summary
Student Services and Enrollment Managements mission is to build a diverse exceptional and inclusive campus community. The person in this role will work toward this mission in the following ways: Understand UO values as represented in the IDEAL framework; illustrate efforts at awareness and implementation with other individuals in the workplace; act as an advocate to assure efforts at best practices including support of trainings and serving as a resource for inquiries; act as a supporter to implement policy and/or establish procedures or guidelines for their school/college or VP area/Division; and act as a supporter to implement and/or establish procedures or guidelines for the University.
University Housing a department within the Division of Student Services and Enrollment Management is committed to support student success by cultivating inclusive communities. Our goal is to provide a robust living experience through accessible and affordable stateoftheart housing dining social and academic programs for the entire student body to develop community leaders innovators and changemakers who will enrich the future.
We value equity and inclusion responsibility and integrity innovation and learning and safety and security. University Housing staff work hard to incorporate these values into daily work and practices to ensure an excellent UO experience.
University Housing units which include Business Services Operations Dining Services Facilities Services Promotions & Student Recruitment and Residence Life. University Housing is a $100million dollar educational and business department that is a selfsustaining selfliquidating agency of the University (receives no tuition or tax support for its operating budget).
Living on campus adds tremendous value for students and the University. Students who live on campus their first year have higher grades are retained at the University of Oregon at higher rates graduate at higher rates and graduate more quickly.
Position Summary
The Community Director (CD) is an essential services livein Officer of Administration (OA) essential to administering the firstyear residential student experience. Community Directors lead in constructing and implementing the Residential Curriculum and facilitating academic and cocurricular residential experiences through their presence and intentional engagement with residential students in community. CDs supervise Resident Assistants and provide their residents with opportunities for intrapersonal and community development through a number of strategies.
These strategies include the residential curriculum centered on specific learning goals that are connected to the knowledge of personal identity and cultural competence strategies for supporting health and wellness responsibility to oneself and the community and integration of academic learning into other realms of life. CDs are expected to contribute to student success through their interactions and advisement of students.
In collaboration with other staff in University Housing the Division of Student Services and Enrollment Management and other campus partners CDs will implement initiatives for community development through student learning and development social justice and inclusion crisis management conduct and community standards academic initiatives and administration. The CD is responsible for responding to concerns and issues within the community in order to uphold safety and security. CDs exercise a significant amount of independent judgment and discretion.
The incumbent of the Community Director position is subject to regular relocation to different campus housing locations based on the ongoing assessment of operational needs. In addition as a term of employment all Community Directors are required to sign a livein agreement.
Minimum Requirements
Masters degree or Bachelors degree plus two years of fulltime experience in residence life
One year experience with direct supervision of student staff or student leaders
Professional Competencies
Ability to integrate knowledge of antideficit and social justice frameworks in dispositions skills and work
Knowledge of theory and techniques for advising and supporting diverse individuals or groups including traditionally underrepresented and underserved students
Ability to build and develop an inclusive cohesive team
Ability to interpret communicate and enforce policies and procedures
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with designing or implementing assessment evaluation or research
Experience with ethical and equitable student conduct/residential conduct adjudication
Experience with emergency response crisis management or postvention followup
Experience designing facilitating or implementing a residential curriculum
Experience consulting collaborating or liaising with faculty or academic partners
Experience coconstructing or facilitating livinglearning communities academic residential programs or cocurricular environments
FLSA Exempt: Yes
All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
The University of Oregon is proud to offer a robust benefits package to eligible employees including health insurance retirement plans and paid time off. For more information about benefits visit University of Oregon is an equal opportunity affirmative action institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the ADA. The University encourages all qualified individuals to apply and does not discriminate on the basis of any protected status including veteran and disability status. The University is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. To request an accommodation in connection with the application process please contact us at or.
UO prohibits discrimination on the basis of race color religion national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity gender expression pregnancy (including pregnancyrelated conditions) age physical or mental disability genetic information (including family medical history) ancestry familial status citizenship service in the uniformed services (as defined in federal and state law) veteran status expunged juvenile record and/or the use of leave protected by state or federal law in all programs activities and employment practices as required by Title IX other applicable laws and policies. Retaliation is prohibited by UO policy. Questions may be referred to the Office of Investigations and Civil Rights Compliance. Contact information related policies and complaint procedures are listed here.
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