Residential Living Supervisor

Job Duties

• Creates and maintains an environment that allows students to learn and practice independent and community living skills.
• Makes and reinforces social and employability skills, such as positive attitude, dependability, and teamwork.
• Provides a safe, secure, clean, and attractive physical and social living environment for students that is appropriate to their varied needs and levels of maturity.
• Supervises staff in all student living areas to ensure safety, security, and accountability of all students at all times.
• Implements a structured process for sharing information to ensure effective student accountability.
• Implements safeguards to ensure that personal information about individual students is shared among staff only as necessary to ensure the safety and effective provision of services to students.
• Implements procedures to record important information about student-related events as they occur and to transmit the information from one shift to the next.
• Maintains individual records for each student that contain, at a minimum, basic identifying information, including emergency contacts, and written parental consent (for minors) for weekend passes to approved destinations. Such records shall be readily accessible to dormitory staff.
• Controls the movement of students between dormitories.
• Distributes dormitory supplies and materials.
• Tracks dormitory performance as it relates to dormitory incentives, including student retention.
• Screens, interviews, and recommends the hiring of all Residential Advisors (RAs).
• Provides orientation and other job-related training to RAs.
• Schedules work assignments, supervises, and evaluates RA performance.
• Ensures that dormitory activity logs are accurately and completely maintained.
• Maintains and follows all non-health standing orders.
• Briefs the oncoming shift supervisor(s) before departure. This includes medical condition of students injured or sick, incidents, safety and security.
• Ensures residential advisors must check dormitories, snack bars, and canteens and document their findings in a log book.
• Acts as center liaison to the Center Director after normal business hours.
• Schedules and submits time sheets within time frames per center policy.
• Assists with the student leadership program.
• Conducts and documents quality assurance audits and self-evaluations to ensure program quality and integrity.
• Ensures the safety, health, and security of students, staff, and property.
• Maintains evacuation route maps indicating emergency exits, primary and secondary evacuation routes, location of fire extinguishers and fire alarm pull stations, and assembly points must be posted in all residential facilities.
• Maintains good housekeeping in all areas and complies with safety practices.
• Conducts and documents regular staff meetings with assigned staff.
• Models, mentors, and monitors appropriate career success skills.
• Helps students become more employable through continuous reinforcement of independent living skills.
• Participates in mandated staff training. Failure to participate may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of two years related experience as a Residential Advisor or similar supervisory experience in a similar environment is preferred.
• An Associate’s Degree from a College or University and/or equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered subject to DOL approval of a waiver.
• A valid state driver’s license is required.