Community Coordinator

About Us

Are you ready to transform lives through academic excellence, innovative research, strong community partnerships and economic opportunity? Kennesaw State University is one of the 50 largest public institutions in the country. With growing enrollment and global reach, we continue to expand our institutional influence and prominence beyond the state of Georgia. We offer more than 190 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees to empower our 47,000 students to become thought leaders, lifelong learners, and informed global citizens. Our entrepreneurial spirit, high-impact research, and Division I athletics draw students from throughout the region and from more than 100 countries across the globe. Our university's vibrant culture, career opportunities, rich benefits, and values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability make us an employer of choice. We are part of the University System of Georgia. We are searching for talented people to join Kennesaw State University in our vision. Come Take Flight at KSU!

Location

• Kennesaw campus: 1000 Chastain Road NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144
• Marietta campus: 1100 South Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30060

Job Summary

Supports Residence life leadership in the general oversight of the Residence Life program for assigned residential community. Provides support through direct supervision of assigned staff and/or student assistants, general administration, community development, crisis management and collaboration with operations and facilities staff. Provides guidance to residents and serves as the primary conduct officer for the assigned community through reviewing and adjudicating student conduct cases.

Responsibilities

• Provides supervision, training and evaluation of assigned staff and/or student assistants
• Affirms student and community institutional support needs
• Creates and implements programming designed to address needs
• Communicates, interprets, supports, and enforces department and university policies to staff and students
• Provides complex and high-level crisis management interventions for live-in students
• Functions as primary hearing officer for high level student conduct violation hearings including second offenses, drug allegations, etc.
• Participates in planning and implementation of a curricular model for residential student experience
• Serves on departmental and institutional committees and task forces designed to drive student engagement across campus and participates in professional development activities
• Responsible for total management of annual budget to include ownership of budget and decision-making regarding expenditures and requests and prepares monthly engagement reports
• Maintains accessibility to staff and residents beyond traditional office hours (i.e., university events, department programming, meetings)

Required Qualifications

• Educational Requirements: Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution of higher education
• Other Required Qualifications: Current, valid and unrestricted driver's license
• Required Experience: One (1) year of related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred Educational Qualifications: An advanced degree from an accredited institution of higher education in Student Personnel, Higher Education, or related field
• Preferred Experience: Previous leadership and supervisory experience, Experience in Residence Life or Student Affairs

USG Core Values

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Kennesaw State University is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for living, work and study. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and University policy, the University prohibits harassment of or discrimination against any person because of race, color, sex (including sexual harassment, pregnancy, and medical conditions related to pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity or national origin, religion, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran or military status by any member of the KSU Community on campus, in connection with a University program or activity, or in a manner that creates a hostile environment for members of the KSU community.

Other Information

• This is a supervisory position
• This position has financial responsibilities
• This position will be required to drive
• This role is considered a position of trust
• This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card)
• This position may travel over 75% of the time

Background Check

- Standard Enhanced
- Education
- MVR
- 9 Panel Lab Drug Test