Assistant Resident Director

Assistant Resident Director

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Assistant Resident Director - Graduate Assistantship (Asst. RD/GA) Date: Fall 2025

Department: Student Development

Reports to: Director for Community Life

BASIC FUNCTION:

Facilitates a residential area environment that maximizes student growth and development.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

• Assists in coordinating the programming of academic spiritual multicultural service and social activities that serve to educate the whole student.
• Directs the following administrative functions within the residence hall: student accountability activities on-duty responsibilities and emergency operations. Assists the RD in administering the following functions: building maintenance hall operations budges and reporting.
• Supports individual residents in personal growth academic continuance and wellness.
• Intervenes in crisis situations and maintains current files of counseling and discipline sessions.
• Assists in the selection training and supervision of Resident Assistants.
• Remains available and visible to students. The Assistant Resident Director will serve as a liaison between students and other administrators. This includes working to be acquainted with all students developing rapport with students being visible at hall and campus events and regularly eating meals in the dining facilities. Furthermore a resident director must maintain this position as their only form of employment in order to have ample time for the ministry of presence.
• Submits weekly semester and annual reports to Student Development Directors as requested. Communicates regularly to keep Student Development leadership informed regarding problems trends and issues within the residential facilities.
• Remains on call daily August 1 - May 15 except during vacation times when residential facilities are closed or when using 4 nights away as arranged with the Director of Residence Life
  - Remains on campus to close the residential facilities for each vacation period and returns to campus at least 18 hours before the facility officially open after vacation periods.
  - Remains on campus during major community events such as Welcome Week Homecoming Weekend Go2BU Spiritual Emphasis weeks Leadership Weekend Graduation Weekend and the first and last weekend of each semester.
• Assists Bethel University in the following community commitments:
  - To invest in and prioritize the spiritual vibrancy of one another.
  - To celebrate and learn from diverse cultural and racial experiences and heritages.

About Bethel University

The mission of Bethel University affiliated with the Missionary Church denomination is to be a community of learners building lives of commitment for leadership in the Church and world. Bethels liberating academic programs challenge the mind enlarge the vision and equip the whole person for lifelong service.

Launched in 1947 Bethel is urban situated in the northern Indiana region hosting 250000 residents seven colleges (including Notre Dame) the 2nd largest shopping district in the state of Indiana 15000 businesses 50 parks and beautiful riverwalk developments in South Bend and Mishawaka. Resort venues on Lake Michigan are 45 minutes away. The university community is composed of about 1500 traditional and adult/graduate students from 35 states 90 students born outside the United States and 225 full-time employees. Bethel also hosts more than 8000 guests annually to arts productions 25000 annually in conference services and many thousands of community members in support of 40 national athletic championships.

Bethels 20000 alumni occupy 49 states and 64 world areas and enjoy a medical school acceptance rate double the national average 100% job placement rate in Nursing whose program was ranked No. 7 in the United States a Top 4% finish nationally in competitive math performance tests and 100% pass rate every year on the national performance standard for a unique academic major in American Sign Language.

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