Area Coordinator for Residence Life - Bellarmine University

The Department of Housing and Residence Life invites applications for an Area Coordinator, one of the key members of the department. This is a 12-month, live-in, full-time, exempt position with a flexible workweek of 40 hours where some additional evening and weekends hours may be included. This position reports to the Associate Director of Housing and Residence Life.

The Area Coordinator is responsible for creating welcoming residential environments that facilitate student engagement and belonging within the residence halls and the greater campus community. Area Coordinator will seek to foster diverse, equitable, and inclusive spaces that support educational opportunity while ensuring the safety, security, and well-being of residential students living on campus. The Area Coordinator's principal duties include supervision of student staff members-including selection, training, and evaluation. This position also has responsibilities in student development, facilities management, student conduct, crisis management, advising hall council, and informal student counseling. The Area Coordinator will oversee four buildings (approximately 500 residents), a Senior Resident Assistant, Graduate Assistant, and 14-17 Resident Assistants. This staff member is asked to share their innovative and energetic personality, strong organizational, and time management skills to advance the residential program and student success at Bellarmine.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Foster a vibrant and inclusive residential community by employing innovative ideas and approaches.
• Proactively develop opportunities to engage diverse communities and build inclusive environments. Invest in relationships and programs to celebrate and support culturally diverse student populations.
• Maintain high visibility and engagement with the student body and campus community at University events.
• Improve the quality of student engagement in the assigned residential area by interacting and building rapport with residents (knowing names, personal interests, goals for the future, etc) and providing them with personal support through designated office hours within each community.
• Support the academic success of students through personal coaching and development and referring students to academic support resources.
• Serve as a retention agent and intervene with students on behalf of the institution when students present risks to their retention or persistence. Actively contribute to the university-wide retention management system.
• Lead a team of 14-17 Resident Assistants, 1 Senior Resident Assistant, and 1 Graduate Assistant through effective supervision, training, and evaluation of all staff members.
• Support the residential curriculum by participating in the development and execution of inclusive building-, community-, and campus-wide programmatic offerings to advance the department's learning goals of academic success, social integration, cultural competence, as well as personal and communal wellness.
• Co-advise the Residence Hall Association (RHA) and Hall Councils.
• Manage operations of residential area including budget, maintenance issues, safety and security processes, occupancy, hall opening and closing, key management and damages.
• Participate in 24-hour on-call duty rotation including night, weekend and holidays utilizing a university cell phone, responding to calls for assistance and emergent situations
• Uphold and interpret the rights and responsibilities of all students through consistent and fair policy enforcement. Adjudicate conduct cases in assigned communities utilizing an educational sanctioning model and StarRez platform.
• Collaborate with other departments within the division of student affairs and the university to support students, provide programmatic offerings, and complete administrative responsibilities.
• Support the Residence Life Office through staff meeting attendance, aiding in office coverage as needed, supporting campus-wide programs, and providing excellent customer service to perspective and current students, families, on-campus partners and community constituents.

• Master's degree in College Student Personnel or related field required
• Experience with residence life programming
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work with diverse constituencies
• Knowledge of principles of student development and strong student-centered philosophy is preferred
• Ability to manage and motivate staff and students and develop programs is essential

Bellarmine University is committed to core values of diversity, equity and inclusion and embraces diversity in our workforce among members of faculty, staff and administration. We remain committed to affirmative actions, policies, procedures and attitudes necessary to continue to build and retain a diverse and equitable workforce. We will demonstrate a fully realized and lived commitment to equity and inclusion, empowering all members of our increasingly diverse community and supporting them to achieve their full potential. As part of Bellarmine's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, we will seek to ensure that all aspects of employment, including recruitment, selection, job assignment, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotion, layoff and termination processes remain free of discrimination based upon race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class.