Assistant Director of Central Neighborhood (Administrator I) - Residential Life

About the role

The Assistant Director of Central Neighborhood provides management support, department programmatic direction, and oversight of the teams operating communities within their assigned neighborhood. This includes developing, implementing, and assessing residential curriculums that meet the needs of first year, continuing, and transfer students.

Responsibilities

• Lead all professional team members working with first year students in creating and developing a residential first year experience that aligns and compliments university initiatives.
• Represent Residential Life as part of planning committees for Orientation, GatorFest, and various recruitment events.
• Serve as the liaison to Student Outreach Services and Enrollment Management.
• Assist in the oversight of programs and administrative processes that contribute to the functioning of Residential Life.
• Provide general guidance, direction, and oversight to the residential education staff, which is comprised of a variety of full-time and part-time staff and residential student leaders (Resident Assistants).
• Support the Residential Community, which consists of 6 residential communities that house approximately 2,300 students primarily consisting of first time freshman and transfer students.
• Independently perform highly complex professional student services including, but not limited to: reviewing complex individual, group or organizational problems; and developing and recommending courses of actions and implementing proposed solutions.
• Participate in, oversee, assess, and make recommendations in regards to the following:
• Academic and Education Development
• Residential Curriculum Development
• Assessment
• Communication with families/guardians
• Community Development
• Counseling
• Crisis Management/Response
• Facility Management
• Leadership Development
• Living Learning Community Development
• Programming
• Recruitment and Selection
• Student Conduct
• Student Development
• Training
• Collaborate with the Director of Residential Life to serve as a key figure in the oversight and administration of response to crisis and emergency situations, which also entails an on-call rotation.

Requirements

The Assistant Director must have a Master’s Degree in higher education, student affairs, human services or a related field, and five years of increasingly responsible administrative, Residential Life experience, including supervision of professional staff. Ability to carry out complex assignments without detailed instructions; strong organizational skills and the ability to plan, coordinate, and initiate actions necessary to implement administrative, group decisions or recommendations. Ability to make independent decisions; exercise sound judgment; communicate ideas effectively in both written and verbal formats and with a diverse student, faculty, staff and community is essential.

Qualifications

The Assistant Director must be able to provide comprehensive advisement to staff and department leadership; liaise with central Human Resources and campus partners; and identify problems and implement solutions where guidelines and precedents do not exist. The Assistant Director must have the ability to reason logically, analyze, and define organizational and operating problems and implement appropriate responses.

Skills

Demonstrated ability and ongoing support for creating environments of social justice, equity and inclusion. Develop and implement socially-justified initiatives.

Benefits

N/A

Pay

$6,667.00 to $7,082.00 Per Month ($80,004.00 to $84,984.00 annually)

Schedule

Monday-Friday 9AM to 12 Noon and 1PM to 6PM; may work weekends and non-traditional hours, and is required to participate in after-hours response rotation which directly responds to student crisis and emergency situations as well as providing consult, advice, and direction to the student leader on call team members.