The Placement Exchange Job Board

Accountabilities:

• Coordinating Colgate University's Residential Commons program, which includes over 1,700 first-year and second-year students in 22 residential facilities;
• Utilizing sound student development, learning, managerial, and assessment approaches to develop and deliver a high-quality, engaging, and intellectually meaningful experience for students;
• Establishing and communicating clear goals and outcomes of the Residential Commons program;
• Creating and executing an assessment plan for the Residential Commons, that is connected to student learning outcomes for the Dean of the College division;
• Identifying opportunities to create some operational consistency across the Residential Commons, while maintaining the unique identity of each Residential Commons;
• Serving as a point person for the Residential Commons directors for administrative and personnel processes;
• Offering learning and development opportunities for faculty and staff, related to the work of the Residential Commons;
• Facilitating monthly Residential Commons leadership team meetings;
• Broad oversight of the Residential Commons budgets;
• Supervising four Residential Commons Fellows (post-graduate fellows), who implement programs for each Commons;
• Assisting with the selection and training of Residential Commons student Community Leaders;
• Working with Residential Life staff and the Administrative Deans to create housing assignments for first-year students, within each Residential Commons;
• Serving on the team responsible for creating and implementing first-year Living-Learning Workshops as part of Colgate's Core Curriculum;
• Partnering with faculty, students, and staff to design and create a First-Year experience that helps students make connections across the Residential Commons, First-Year Seminars, Living-Learning Workshops, and more.

Professional Experience/Qualifications:

• Experience with the creation and/or implementation of living-learning programs and/or residential colleges;
• Demonstrated ability to work with faculty in a residential setting;
• Experience with supervision and management in a matrix or complex environment;
• Demonstrated strategic thinking and planning combined with assessment;
• The ability to work collaboratively and constructively with students, families, faculty, and staff;
• Demonstrated evidence of building and maintaining strong relationships with key partners;
• Demonstrated personal and professional commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion;
• Working knowledge of residential education and housing operations;
• Capacity to create a collegial, productive, and positive team environment;
• Professional philosophy that sees residential education as integral to the liberal arts mission and Colgate's Third-Century Plan;
• Strong written and interpersonal communication skill, with a particular emphasis on effective communications with students;
• Strong record of assessment and continuous program improvement; creative thinking and problem-solving; and
• Accessible, student-centered approach that inspires, motivated, and empowers student leaders and staff.

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