Student – Residence Life Desk Assistant (Fall 2026)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain cleanliness of lobby and front desk area
• Monitor the entrances of the building to make sure only residents and their guests access the building
• Monitor security cameras within the building
• Answer questions for residents and guests
• Sign over packages to appropriate resident

Physical Requirements

• Stooping
• Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist
• Kneeling
• Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees
• Crouching
• Reaching
• Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction
• Standing
• Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another
• Pushing
• Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward
• Pulling
• Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion
• Lifting
• Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position
• Hand and Finger Coordination: Ability to perform tasks requiring coordinated hand and finger movements, including typing, keyboarding, picking, pinching, and handling small objects
• Grasping
• Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm
• Feeling
• Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips
• Talking
• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word
• Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other employees accurately, loudly, or quickly
• Hearing
• Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound

Physical Activity of this Position

• Walking
• Pushing
• Pulling
• Lifting
• Stooping
• Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist
• Kneeling
• Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees
• Crouching
• Reaching
• Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction
• Standing
• Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another
• Grasping
• Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm
• Feeling
• Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips
• Talking
• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word
• Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other employees accurately, loudly, or quickly
• Hearing
• Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound