Assistant Director of Residence Life

Under leadership of the Director of Residence Life in all aspects of the position the Assistant Director is responsible for collaboratively leading the efforts of the residence life department as part of the leadership team. This includes significant incorporation of diversity equity and inclusiveness perspectives throughout functional responsibility areas ensuring the processes address systemic bias. Overall responsibilities include:

Staff Supervision Selection Training and Performance Evaluation

• Provide direct supervision training and evaluation for 3 4 fulltime professional resident directors (RDs) and/or Supervising Residence Directors and indirect supervision for 12 full time Assistant Resident Directors and approximately 100 undergraduate paraprofessional staff.
• One assistant director on the leadership team will directly supervise the Inclusion Assistant Program. The Inclusion Assistants are student leaders who provide mentorship programming and intentional outreach to all students in the residence halls to educate and create strong communities that incorporate our values of accessibility diversity equity and inclusion.
• Create strategies to enhance the work of inclusive community building in the residence halls. Work closely with professional staff to ensure residential life staff are trained on issues of equity and inclusion with particular emphasis on effectiveness in carrying out positional responsibilities in the residential environment.
• Through directing coaching mentoring and evaluating staff ensure staff perform assigned responsibilities in prescribed methods in accordance to standards established by department leadership.
• Regularly collect input from students student staff and fulltime staff to provide annual formal evaluations as well as ongoing informal feedback.
• Meet regularly with each professional staff individually to facilitate effective job performance as well as provide ongoing professional development.
• Provide guidance and supervisory support to resident directors in developing and implementing residential programming organized to create an atmosphere of selfdirected learning and opportunity for working with other stakeholder offices in establishing positive student communities.

Student Development and Educational Leadership

• Collaborate with leadership within University Residences to provide longterm strategic planning shortterm coordination of operations and more immediate problem solving within the department.
• Develop innovative programming strategies to support learning goals identified by the department.
• Provide leadership and coordinates departmental initiatives related to including accessibility diversity equity and inclusion (ADE&I) education into all aspects of the residential experience.
• Provide leadership guidance and assessment for the Affinity community/Living Learning Community program comprised of multiple unique affinity communities.
• Support and advance departmental and institutional goals and values related to inclusive excellence.
• Collaborate with staff and faculty to assess and improve systems designed to support academically atrisk students.
• Collaborate with students faculty academic administrators and staff to enhance student learning through livinglearning communities.
• Foster student leadership development through structures such as hall government and student staff training.
• Provide leadership in the development implementation interpretation and utilization of assessment to measure student learning and departmental effectiveness in achieving its goals.

Administrative Leadership

• Serve in place of Director of Residence Life on a rotating basis when the Director is out of office
• Provide leadership in the development implementation and assessment of department policies and processes.
• Serve as unit liaison for housing facility and maintenance related concerns occupancy management and communications the business office and dining.
• Lead efforts on designated residence life initiatives including campuswide partnerships and collaborative projects.
• Ensure residence life staff complete administrative tasks accurately and ontime and understand and adhere to all departmental and university policies procedures and guidelines.
• Chair multiple committees within residence life on major operations such as training recruitment and selection equity and inclusion and resident education.
• Assist the Director of Residence Life in development and review of the residence life budget typically $3.5 $4 million annually.
• Exercise signature authority for programming boards and staff programming budgets totaling $100000 annually. Provide training and supervision to resident directors as they develop and execute programming budgets and advise student groups. Directly manage committee budgets for the recruitment and training of staff.
• Represent University Residences and Residence life with external stakeholders and exercise independent judgment in responding to and following up on stakeholder feedback and concerns such as: inquiries from parents/families and the public related to incidents (e.g. student crisis student misconduct roommate conflicts) within parameters of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

OnCall / AfterHours Responsibility

• Serve in Residence Life leadership oncall rotation serving as afterhours decisionmaker for Residence Life emergencies/crises and supervisor for professional Residence Directors and Assistant Residence Directors oncall.
• Provide immediate support and direction for student and professional staff responding to emergency situations such as suicidal behaviors/ideation sexual harassment sexual eating disorders depression physical domestic violence anger management alcohol and drug abuse/dependency/ or psychotic episodes.
• Provide leadership for professional and student staff in providing supportive response to individuals and communities affected by serious or largescale incidents such as moving a student to interim housing deciding if a student is able to remain in the residence hall system arranging for group or individual crisis counseling and contacting parents.
• Maintain strong liaison relationships with a variety of university resources including but not limited to Office of Student Life Civil Rights and Title IX Compliance Survivor Advocacy Services Multicultural Center Ethnic Student Center Disability Access Center University Conduct Officer the Student Health Center Counseling Health and Wellness University Police Student Outreach Services Academic Advising the Tutoring Center and New Student and Family Outreach Services.
• Notify directors and/or higher administration of incidents that are media worthy involve significant harm/risk to safety to the residential campus student and staff community.

Student Conduct and CARE

• Under direction of Director of Residence Life and in coordination with Assistant Director of Residence Life of Care and Conduct provide leadership and vision for conduct process and care interventions
• Provide training guidance and support for resident directors as they implement the conduct process including hearings conduct decisions and educational sanctioning.
• Hear conduct appeals from residents typically in highlevel conduct cases (i.e. violations related to alcohol or physical/verbal .
• Provide training guidance and support to staff following up on a wide range of carerelated situations (homesickness mental health challenges roommate challenges etc.

Other Duties

• Serve on the Residence Life Leadership Team
• Residence Life Area and Combined Staff Meetings
• University Residence department committee(s) as appropriate
• Enrollment and Student Services Divisional committee(s) as needed.
• Provide annually a summary of DEI considerations and impacts in area of responsibility to University Residences executive director and/or designee.

• Masters degree
• Three years fulltime management or administrative experience in college or university residence education.
• Experience leading in a diverse and inclusive environment and a demonstrated commitment to building inclusive communities within a residential environment (a one page equity and inclusion statement must be submitted as part of the application)
• Experience with training recruitment and selection for all levels of staff within a residential environment.

• Experience supervising fulltime professional staff members (e.g. resident directors)
• Three to five years of progressively more responsible supervisory experience in college or university residential environments.
• Ability to develop educational strategies to foster student development and learning.
• Experience with crisis management.
• Professional livein residence hall or student housing staff experience.
• Ability to apply current student learning and development theories and research.

This position requires a fingerprint background check.

A complete application includes: 1 a cover letter addressing the required and preferred qualifications; 2 a resume; 3 the names and contact information for three professional references (including a current or past supervisor) and 4 a onepage equity and inclusion statement:

Equity and inclusion statement: Also required is a separate statement (max. length one page) addressing your demonstrated commitment to equity and inclusion in addition to the ability to create an inclusive residence hall community. In the statement please include examples of your past work that demonstrate your commitment to equity and inclusion in addition to describing how you will contribute to further implement these values at Western Washington University through the position responsibilities outlined above.