St Olaf College

Position Title: Area Coordinator

Department: Residence Life

Reports To: Assistant Director of Residence Life

Classification: Exempt

FTE: 1.0

Essential Job Duties:

1. Supervision and Training Responsibilities

• Recruit, select, train, and directly supervise student staff. Supervision includes expectation setting, leadership development, performance evaluation, improvement plans performance documentation, and discipline.
• Support the community development model through programming, events, and social connections
• Support residential education initiatives such as Community Councils/the Residence Hall Association, Residential Learning Communities, and community programming.

2. Management/Operations Responsibilities

• Create a working relationship and establish a routine meeting structure with the facilities team (i.e. maintenance, trades, and custodial services).
• Manage residential area budget for programmatic and developmental initiatives.
• Coordinate processes, including but not limited to room inventories, room changes, health and safety inspections, work orders, damage billing, and opening and closing of the residence halls.
• Maintain and update the housing and occupancy management database.
• Support marketing, communications, and public outreach initiatives.

3. Student Care, Wellbeing, Conduct and Community Standards

• Establish and maintain contact with students and address student needs and concerns.
• Serve in an all-campus on-call rotation.
• Clearly document concerns and incidents via appropriate campus reporting procedures.
• Serve as a hearing officer, adjudicate cases, and hear appeals as assigned.

4. College Contributions

• Be front-facing within the residence halls and at campus events.
• Serve on task forces and initiatives to support a diverse and creative residential experience.
• Participate in new student recruitment and yield and orientation events.
• Participate in benchmark data initiatives.
• Engage in foundation levels of qualitative and quantitative data analysis.
• Support, respect, and commit to embracing diverse backgrounds, values, and points of view to build a strong and inclusive community.

Prerequisites:

Employment in this position is conditioned upon successful completion of a background check, which may include criminal background checks, reference checks, verification of work history, verification of any required academic credentials, licenses, and/or certifications, a motor vehicle check, verification of a DOT certification, a credit check, employment eligibility verification, and/or a pre-employment physical. Whether a background check is deemed successfully completed will be at the sole discretion of St. Olaf College. Please note that St. Olaf College reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to conduct periodic background checks.

Disclaimer:

This job description is for general information purposes. It is not intended to list all duties and responsibilities of the position. This job description is subject to change at any time, with or without prior notice, by St. Olaf College.