Associate Director of Residence Life

About the role

Fort Valley State University, a state and land-grant institution of the University System of Georgia, invites applications for the position of Associate Director of Residence Life.

Responsibilities

• Serves on behalf of the Director of Housing and Residence Life in their absence.
• Provides day-to-day operational leadership across residential communities.
• Implements and ensures adherence to all university, division, and departmental rules, policies, and procedures.
• Leads and serves on departmental and division-wide committees that advance student engagement, retention, and success.
• Participates in departmental marketing efforts, including Accepted Students Day, Open House, and similar recruitment activities.
• Maintains accurate records and prepares reports as needed.
• Cultivates an engaging living environment that fosters a sense of belonging and connection across all residence halls.
• Creates and sustains continual assessment initiatives to ensure departmental goals and learning outcomes are being achieved.
• Utilizes institutional data and student feedback (focus groups, surveys) to inform program decisions and resource allocation.
• Reports outcomes to the Director and contributes to division-wide assessment efforts.
• Engages in ongoing professional development, training, and staff development activities to maintain competency in housing, student development, and supervisory practice.
• Collaborates with campus partners to strategically infuse their services throughout the Residential Curriculum, including but not limited to Campus Safety, Student Wellbeing and Development, the Student Engagement & Achievement (SEA) Center, Intramural Sports, and Dining Services.
• Works with faculty and staff stakeholders to support living/learning community themes and programmatic opportunities.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in education, college student personnel, counseling, human development, or a related field.
• Three to five (3–5) years of progressively responsible experience in housing and residence life.
• Demonstrated experience supervising professional staff.
• Understanding of, sensitivity to, and respect for the diverse academic, socio-economic, ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds, disability, and sexual orientation of university students, faculty, and staff.
• Strong administrative, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.