Residential Community Coordinator

Residential Community Coordinator

Columbus College of Art & Design seeks motivated, creative, and qualified applicants for the position of Residential Community Coordinator. Reporting to the Director of Residence Life & Housing, this 12-month, live-in position allows a budding residence life professional to become a central part of creating meaningful, inclusive, and safe communities. The Residential Community Coordinator is directly responsible for the overall management of two residential communities with the following main responsibilities: supervising student Resident Advisors and front desk assistants, coordinating and overseeing programming and community building efforts in the residence halls, addressing residential students' concerns and issues, and assisting with student staff hiring, training and supervision. The Residential Community Coordinator shares on-call duty responsibilities, assists in creating and implementing departmental policies and protocols, supporting departmental reporting, planning, and assessment needs, assisting with room assignments and transitions; managing facility concerns, and assisting with summer programs housing.

ESSENTIAL DURIES AND RESPONSIBILITES include but are not limited to the following:

• Coordinate Resident Advisor (RA) and residence hall front desk assistant recruitment, selection, training, recognition, and supervision processes.
• Create a positive residential community experience through proactive steps to develop relationships with residents and student staff members while utilizing student development theory and best practices to support their growth and learning
• Oversee residence life programming and community building efforts; manage programming budget; ensure programs align with departmental expectations and achieve desired learning outcomes
• Respond to residential students' concerns and issues, including roommate conflicts, maintenance requests, parent concerns, health and safety issues, and students in crisis in a manner consistent with departmental and institutional expectations and core values
• Manage routine, critical, daily, and seasonal administrative tasks
• Maintain security, health, fire, and safety standards
• Work with individual students in the resolution of personal, social, and academic concerns
• Share on-call duty responsibilities with the Director and other Student Affairs staff
• Live on campus in a designated apartment in a residence hall
• Assist with summer programs housing and events
• Assist with First Year Experience initiatives and connecting residential programming with these efforts
• Address student behavior concerns including reporting policy violations and serving as a student conduct hearing officer.
• Assist the Director with creating and implementing effective policies, protocols, departmental reports, plans, and assessment efforts related to the entire residence life program
• Assist the Director with creating and implementing plans and processes related to room assignments, room transfers, housing marketing and sign-up efforts
• Assist the Director in creating a facility management plan and in addressing facility concerns
• Assist the Director in representing the office with internal and external audiences, including New Student Orientation and Admissions Office initiatives
• Communicate effectively with students, staff, and other campus stakeholders; take initiative to address areas needing improvement
• Serve on designated Student Affairs committees; assist with larger departmental initiatives as requested by supervisors; participate in departmental meetings
• Support departmental and institutional mission, values, and strategic initiatives
• Regular business hours cannot always define the typical 40 hour work week; some evening and weekend commitments are to be expected
• Other duties as assigned

SUPERVISORY RESONSIBILITIES

Manage 20-30 Residence Life student employees

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

• Must live on campus in a designated apartment in a residence hall and share on-call duty responsibilities.
• Must have basic knowledge of student development theory and ability to apply this knowledge to perform work responsibilities.
• Knowledge of Database Software, Internet Software, Word, and Excel
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Abilities to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the general public.
• Ability to practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Master's Degree (M.A.) required
• 4-10 years' experience and/or training; or equivalent combination or education and experience preferred

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• The employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear.
• The employee frequently is required to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• The noise level in the work environment is moderate.
• The pace of the work environment is moderate to fast.

COMPENSATION: This position is full-time, exempt, and year-round. Compensation is commensurate on experience and qualifications. CCAD offers a benefits package including: vacation time, additional paid time off while the college is closed during winter break. Health, vision, and dental insurance, life and disability insurance, 403B retirement contribution, tuition remission, free campus parking, and free admission to the Columbus Museum of Art. CCAD provides a flexible, creative work environment.

HOW TO APPLY: Visit www.ccad.applicantpro.com/jobs/ to submit your application. When asked to upload application materials, please submit a resume/CV and a cover letter. If you are applying from any website other than CCAD or Indeed, you will receive a follow up email 3 hours after your initial submission directing you to follow the link and complete your application. You must complete this two-step process, or your application will be considered INCOMPLETE.

About CCAD: Columbus College of Art & Design, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest private art and design colleges in the United States with more than 1,100 undergraduate and graduate students. Undergraduate students choose from 12 majors: Photography, Industrial Design, Contemporary Crafts, Advertising & Graphic Design, Comics & Narrative Practice, Animation, Illustration, Fine Arts, Fashion Design, Interior Design, Studio Art with Emphasis in History of Art & Visual Culture and Film and Video. Graduate curriculum includes a Master of Fine Art [New Projects] and a Master of Design [Integrative Design]. With strong exhibition and visiting artists programs and a commitment to the integration of business and art, CCAD is a leader in art and design education.

About Columbus: Columbus is among the Top 10 best U.S. cities for new college grads and one of the top 10 creative scenes in the country as well as one of the 15 most affordable cities in the U.S. As one of the nation's largest college towns Columbus is the type of city where creative activities flourish. There are eight distinct cultural districts that surround CCAD and there are more than 165 restaurants, pubs, and clubs in downtown alone. CCAD is a campus community located in the heart of this vibrant city.

EEO Statement: As an educational and cultural institution, a culture of equity and inclusion is not an add- on at CCAD, rather it is central to how we define creative excellence and the health of our institution. CCAD believes that a culturally diverse campus is integral to academic excellence, and our student, faculty, staff, and trustee bodies should reflect the diverse world in which we live, with attention to race, ethnicity, religious creed, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and ability. CCAD sees Art & Design as universally inclusive and inherently unbiased. CCAD is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from individuals who will contribute to its diversity.

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