What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Director for Housing Assignments and Technology (Live On Campus Position) position at Rider University?
WHY RIDER UNIVERSITY?? – We take pride in the ever-evolving nature of our work, which transforms the lives of our students, preparing them for personal and professional success.
Rider University invites applications for the position of Assistant Director for Housing Assignments and Technology. Reporting to the Director for Residence Life, the Assistant Director will support the management of the Cloud-based Housing Management System, StarRez. Through cloud based computing, web services, and APIs, this position is responsible for database structures, report development, dashboards, and data analytics. The Assistant Director coordinates system implementations, upgrades, and modifications to maintain data integrity, collaborates with various support groups to enhance system performance and builds data schematics to make housing data accessible to other campus partners through data warehouse and dashboards.
The Assistant Director will be accountable for managing application and assignments related processes for the approximately 2,000 undergraduate on-campus residents, as well as creating and managing application and assignments related communication. In this role, attention to detail, close collaboration with hall staff, a high level of confidentiality, and excellent communication will be critical. The Assistant Director will also supervise 3 to 5 graduate Community Directors.
The Assistant Director is responsible for creating a safe, comfortable and educational community where academic success and personal growth is encouraged. Through individual contact with students and the development of student staff, the Assistant Directors are expected to work to identify at risk students and situations and to develop programs and services to address student retention issues.
This is a live on campus position.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Education Administration, Counseling, Student Personnel or related field.
- Demonstrated 3-5 years of full-time residence life/housing experience.
- Demonstrated experience with StarRez is required.
- Satisfactory background and/or DMV checks required.
Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Master's degree in Education Administration, Counseling, Student Personnel or related field.
- Power user for the StarRez residential management system with experience building and managing PortalX processes, bulk data updates, and overall data stewardship.
Rider University is consistently highly ranked as a best college by U.S. News and World Report and The Princeton Review for student success, academic programs, veteran friendliness, and its sustainability efforts.
Rider University is committed to fostering an inclusive, vibrant living and learning community that embraces students, faculty, and staff of all backgrounds and enables them to achieve success.
Rider University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
