Assistant Director Housing Occupancy Management
Assistant Director Housing Occupancy Management
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Job Description
Position Function:
Provides leadership and direction in the client services functions of the department: housing residential applications assignments contracts and central office operations.
Salary Grade:15
Please see Staff Compensation Structure or Skilled Crafts and Service Maintenance Compensation Schedule for salary ranges. For salary grade UC these positions are Unclassified and salary ranges are determined by the hiring department.
Department Profile:
The Department of Housing and Residence Life strives to create a home away from home where students are individually and collectively challenged and supported in the journey to become mature contributing citizens in a global community.
In support of the mission of Mississippi State University and the Division of Student Affairs the Department of Housing and Residence Life cultivates an oncampus environment that promotes student success engages students through intentional interactions and challenges them to learn and grow beyond the classroom.
Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Manage departmental front desk and housing assignments operations.
2. Directly supervise train develop and evaluate housing assignments fulltime staff and student staff.
3. Provide strategic oversight for areas related to housing operations
4. Assist with implementing operational standards by providing information for strategic plans/reviews and implementation of policy and procedures
5. Collaborate with AD for Marketing & Communications to market and communicate to housing assignments prospective and current students families and campus partners.
6. In collaboration with departmental leadership develops knowledge skills policies practices and abilities related to occupancy management benchmarks development and occupancy management strategies as well as accommodation needs
7. Develop and train staff on housing management systems front office and occupancy management procedures
8. In collaboration with the Executive Director or designee plan residential dates of opening and closing develop a departmental events calendar for occupancy management processes
9. Communicate and collaborate with departmental and campus partners to meet student residential and communicate assignment strategic plans
10. Administrate excellent customer service standards
11. Serve as a member of the departmental leadership team in the absence of the Executive Director or designee.
12. Maintain accurate historical residential data
13. Serve on departmental divisional and/or universitywide committees as needed
14. Active involvement with related professional associations
15. Perform other duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelors Degree in Business Higher Education or related field.
ABDs or degree pending considered (all but DISS):
Preferred Qualifications:
Masters degree in higher education college student development or Business Administration. Additional experience could substitute for a masters degree
Supervisory experience of fulltime level staff
Experience working with housing management systems and/or strategic planning
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
1. Excellent communication and intrapersonal skills
2. Supervise lead and manage various staff levels and expertise
3. Knowledgeable and practices skills related to sales contracts resource allocation and management
4. Proficient knowledge of computer applications (e.g. Microsoft Suite) and housing management systems
5. Ability to foster an environment of inclusion and demonstrate a commitment to diversity by facilitating professional development with supervised staff and hiring staff with diversity that is reflective of the student population
6. Work with a variety of departmental and university team members
Working Conditions and Physical Effort
No unusual physical requirements. Requires no heavy lifting and most work is performed in a comfortable indoor facility. Many events will require this position to work outside of normal business hours including nights weekends and holidays
Externally imposed deadlines set or revised on short notice frequent shifts in priority numerous interruptions requiring immediate attention unusual pressure daily due to accountability for the success of major projects or areas of operation
Job frequently requires sitting reaching talking and hearing
Job occasionally requires standing walking climbing or balancing stooping/kneeling/crouching/crawling handling objects with hands and lifting to 25 pounds. Vision requirements: Ability to see information in print and/or electronically
Instructions for Applying:
Link to apply: must be submitted through the Human Resources Management Website at by completing the online application and submitting a cover letter resume unofficial transcripts and at least 3 professional references.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:
MSU is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color ethnicity sex religion national origin disability age sexual orientation genetic information pregnancy gender identity status as a U.S. veteran and/or any other status protected by applicable law. We always welcome nominations and applications from women members of any minority group and others who share our passion for building a diverse community that reflects the diversity in our student population.
What do I do if I need an accommodation
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Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
