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FXD Residence Director

Title: FXD Residence Director

VP Area: Housing and Residence Life

Department: Housing Operations

Work Schedule:

*Telework Availability: *On-campus Position

*FLSA Status: *Non-Exempt

*Employee Classification: *Regular full-time (staff 30+ hours)

*Hours per week: *40

*Months per year: *12

*Fixed Term End Date (if applicable): *2029-05-31

Job Purpose:

The Residence Director (RD) is responsible for creating safe, inclusive, and dynamic communities that empower students' wholistic development. Supervised directly by an Assistant Director, this entry level professional opportunity is a live-in, 12-month position that creates and directs positive communities and effective administration of a "block" of on-campus residence halls as a part of the 3,000 on-campus residents. The Residence Director supports the Jesuit mission including cura personalis, social justice, and service by facilitating student and community development while integrating the residents' academic and co-curricular experiences. This position supports the Housing and Residence Life mission, as well as the five foci of the Gonzaga Residential Experience (Ignatian spirituality, academic success, belonging, interculturality, and personal growth) through creating environments where students make meaning of their on-campus experiences. This position supervises graduate and undergraduate student staff members.

Essential Functions:

30% - Staff Supervision

• Supervise and mentor residence life student staff. Recruit, select and train new and returning staff members.
• Supervise Assistant Residence Directors, Resident Assistants, and Graduate Residence Directors (where applicable).
• Meet regularly with staff individually and conduct weekly staff meetings.
• Direct, monitor, assess and evaluate staff work assignments and work flow.
• Disseminate information, provide training experiences, direct professional growth and develop a sense of team cohesiveness.
• Provide challenge and support in the areas of academic workload, job responsibilities, leadership skills, and personal growth. 

20% - Departmental Planning/Support

• Participate in system wide Residence Life management duties.
• Advise small and large student groups.
• Manage program review.
• Attend to creation and production of department professional literature.
• Act as a University agent and coordinate university response to student conflicts, residence hall procedures, damages, and off-campus properties.
• Serve as a conduct officer for the Office of Community Standards, taking primary responsibility for coordinating the conduct interventions.
• Facilitates student development by using proactive intervention techniques, reporting incidents, leading conduct review processes, promoting student accountability for actions, and maintaining administrative records.
• Instruct Resolution Center for Student Conduct and Conflict educational coursework.
• Respond and monitor student behavioral concerns in partnership with the Center for Cura Personalis.
• Establish and direct department, division and institutional initiatives through collaborative work efforts.
• Facilitate learning for all student leaders within the division.
• Serve on institutional and divisional committees, as required. Program assistance with admission and orientation. Chair committees on major departmental processes and procedures.
• Review and revise departmental operational procedure

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