Residential Area Coordinator

About the role

The Area Coordinator works closely with colleagues in Residential Life and other offices to deliver an intentional co-curricular living-learning environment in the undergraduate residences that aligns with Brown’s Liberal Learning Goals for its Open Curriculum and autonomous, self-directed, and critically-conscious students.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to a dynamic and engaged professional and student staff team whose practice is innovative, centers social justice, and partners actively with students and colleagues.
• Foster the growth and development of residents.
• Respond to community concerns.
• Address policy violations.
• Supervise a student staff (Community Coordinator) team.
• Support administrative and operational functions for the Office of Residential Life.
• Conduct hearings in the non-academic student conduct process.
• Participate in the University's after-hours on-call system and respond to student emergencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required, Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in higher education/student affairs administration including administrative experience in residential, educational or similar organizations required, inclusive of a minimum of one year of experience supervising paraprofessional staff and implementing programs (preferably in a university setting).
• Experience developing programs and initiatives that are responsive to the needs of a diverse student population including students from historically underrepresented groups.
• Experience with residential programs, student programming, and work in a higher education setting is strongly preferred.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of principles, practices and theories of student learning and development.
• Understanding of the cultural, social and educational needs of students in residential communities.
• Demonstrated ability to creatively and efficiently solve problems, using sound judgment, assuming ownership of a problem, and resolving challenges in a collaborative manner.
• Demonstrated organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in writing and orally.
• Agility and familiarity with latest software, database systems, computer literacy.