Residence Hall Director

The Chronicle Of Higher Education, Inc.; Cold Spring (KY); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

The Chronicle Of Higher Education, Inc. is seeking a Residence Hall Director at Northern Kentucky University. This 12-month live-in position reports to the Assistant Director of Residence Life and coordinates student development in residential facilities.

The role supervises 8-18 Resident Assistants and handles staffing, training, supervision, and evaluation of paraprofessional and graduate staff. It emphasizes planning learning strategies and programming for residential students and is

Qualifications

• Must have strong planning and organizational abilities.
• Excellent communication and customer service skills.
• Crisis management and handling diverse constituents.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate learning strategies and programming for residential students.
• Staff, train, supervise, and evaluate paraprofessional and graduate staff.
• Staffing and scheduling for residence halls.
• Address student conduct issues and crises.
• Manage budgets and resources.

Skills

Planning

Organization

Presentation

Programming

Supervision

Customer service

Communication

Crisis management

Diversity & inclusion

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

Position Title:

Residence Hall Director

Position Type:

Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

About the Role:

Reporting to the Assistant Director of Residence Life, theResidence Hall Director is a 12-month live-in position responsiblefor coordinating all aspects of student development in theresidential facilities at Northern Kentucky University. TheResidence Hall Director supervises 8-18 Resident Assistants. TheResidence Hall Director is responsible for staffing, training,supervising, and evaluating paraprofessional and graduatestaff.

• The Residence Hall Director is responsible for thedevelopment and implementation of learning strategies andprogramming for residential students. This position is intended asan entry-level position for new professionals joining the Housingand Residence Life profession.

• This is a contract; an annual 12-month live-on positiontypically funded for up to four years. Appointments will be made onan annual basis based on continued satisfactory performance.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs :

Must have excellent planning, organizational, pre sentation,programming, supervision, customer service and human relationsskills . Must be able to effectively communicate in both oral andwritten context . Must be creative in managing challenges andchange, able to perform under pressure, have excellent crisismanagement skills, and able to work with diverse constituents.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Bachelor’s degree or higher required.

Preferred experience includes live-on higher education housingexperience, experience mitigating crises and conflicts, experiencesupervising paraprofessional staff, experience with highereducation student conduct, leadership skills, training indiversity/inclusion/interculturalism, and experience managingbudgets .

Posted Salary:

Work Environment & Physical Demands: