Resident Advisor, Upward Bound Summer Program

TRIO's Upward Bound program at Wilkes University is looking for Residential Advisors (RA) for our Summer 2025 Residential Program. Upward Bound is a federally funded educational opportunity program that prepares eligible high school students to enter, and succeed, in post-secondary education. The 6-week summer program includes academic, cultural, and a variety of recreational activities. Every Friday is reserved for a field trip & students are dismissed for the weekend - to return Sunday evenings.

The primary expectation of the RA position is to ensure the well-being of around 50 rising juniors and seniors; with regard to health, safety, morale, discipline, interpersonal relationships within the group, and application to studies. Residential Advisors are expected to live in a Wilkes University residential hall/dormitory while they provide nearly 24-hour supervision for our UBWU students, Sunday - Friday.

The summer session week begins on Sunday evening and ends on Friday afternoon. RA's assist with and/or provide creative/athletic activities, chaperone field-trips, partake in a daily hour and a half long open tutoring session, and general residence life programming. Residential Advisors are provided a mandatory, week-long, paid training before the 6 week session begins.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must be able to pass a comprehensive background & criminal check. Must complete the compensated Mandated Reporter training, and/or must provide proof of certification.
• Having prior residential advisor, or camp counselor, experience is preferred.
• Must be a current college sophomore, junior, senior; or a college graduate. All majors and degrees welcome!
• Presents a strong academic record and drive.
• Experience working with students from low-income backgrounds, multiethnic backgrounds and/or who are potential first-generation college bound students. Must demonstrate a desire to help disadvantaged youth succeed.
• Supervise and hold daily tutor sessions for UBWU students, in core content subjects, under the guidance of the Residential Director and Academic Coordinator.
• Must meet with an assigned academic instructor to monitor student progress and be updated on any assignments.
• Mentor and assist students in establishing individual goals, refining study skills, learning college jargon, and much more.
• Ability to interact with diverse constituencies & departments, including program & Wilkes University staff, parents/guardians and students, with professional ease. Be able to conduct fun & engaging cultural and co-curricular activities for the students. Must remain on campus during the allotted hours a Residential Advisor is expected to be overseeing the students.
• Must participate in the week long training before the summer session begins. As well as other duties, as assigned by the Administrative UB staff and the Residential Director.

The summer program runs from June 22nd through August 1st. RA Training will begin on June 16th, with MOVE IN being June 15th. This position requires living on campus, in a dormitory, from Sunday nights until Friday afternoons during the duration of the program. Free room and board, along with a competitive wage is provided.

COMPENSATION:

• Hourly rate of $12.00
• Periodic planned nights off and you do not work on the weekends!
• Room & Board is provided for the entire length of the summer session
  * Weekdays & Sunday Nights only!
• All meals provided during the active summer session!

To apply, visit https://wilkesuniversitycareers.applicantpro.com/jobs/. Please be sure to include a cover letter, resume or curriculum vitae and three references.

Wilkes University is an independent, comprehensive university dedicated to academic excellence in the liberal arts, sciences, and selected professional programs. The University has approximately 2,000 students at the undergraduate level and over 1,500 full time equivalent students at the graduate and first professional levels.

Its institutional focus is on developing strong mentoring relationships with each of its students and contributing vitally to economic development of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The University is located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a revitalized city that is located on the lovely Susquehanna River and is within two and one-half hours driving distance of New York City and
Philadelphia.

Wilkes University is constantly seeking to become a more diverse community and to enhance its capacity to value and capitalize on the cultural richness that diversity brings. The University strongly encourages applications from persons with diverse backgrounds. Wilkes University does not discriminate in its employment practices or in its educational programs or activities on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, pregnancy, sex/gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, marital or family status, military or veteran status, or genetic information.

Employment at Wilkes is contingent upon the results of a thorough background screening. PA Act 153 requires that persons working in positions with regular and unsupervised contact with minors complete additional clearances, including FBI fingerprinting and PA criminal and child abuse clearances.

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