The Placement Exchange Job Board

Marshall University’s Department of Housing and Residence Life seeks outgoing, energetic, and skilled applicants for a full-time, 12 month live-in professional responsible for one of three residential living communities at Marshall University. Each community houses between 450-800 students. Area Coordinators are responsible for the daily administration of their community and direct supervision of a team of 20-30 Resident Advisors, 6-25 Desk Assistants, 1-2 Assistant Area Coordinators, and 1-3 full-time Desk Coordinators.

General Responsibilities:
Supervision and Staff Development
• Supervise Resident Advisors, Desk Assistants, Assistant Area Coordinators, Desk Coordinators and conducts individual meetings, bi-annual evaluations, etc.
• Contribute and encourage the development of positive working relationships with all residence life staff.
• Attend and organize weekly staff meetings with building staff and/or departmental staff
• Assist with selecting, training, development and in-service activities for the paraprofessional staff.
• Assist with coordination of fall & spring training as well as ongoing personal and professional staff development opportunities.

Student and Community Development
• Create and promote a caring atmosphere conducive to student learning, academic success, and to the personal development of residence hall students.
• Promote an atmosphere that emphasizes Marshall’s values (academic achievement, personal freedom & integrity, dignity and respect for the individual, diversity and inclusiveness, sustainability, and service).
• Work with Assistant Area Coordinators to assess effectiveness of hall traditions & learning outcomes.
• Encourage behavior that demonstrates professionalism, role modeling, and positive communication.
• Mentor and be available to student leaders through RHA, NRHH, and Hall Council.
• Implement and manage residential curriculum and learning outcomes in community.
• Develop and maintain a positive and mutually supportive working relationship with all campus offices.
• Facilitate and implement academic initiatives such as collaboration with faculty, promoting study groups and tutoring, working with relevant MU Marshall University academic offices.
• Advise and counsel individual students, making referrals when needed.
• Assist in the management of student behavior through judicial sanctioning and student advising.
• Hear, adjudicate, and mediate student housing conduct process.
• Facilitate roommate mediation process within your assigned community.
• Assist with university recruitment and retention efforts.

Administrative/Management
• Implement goals and objectives that are consistent with those of the Department of Housing and Residence Life.
• Responsible for facility management, housing operations, and all housing processes in your community.
• Serve on an on-call duty coverage rotation and responds to emergency or non-emergency situations for campus community on nights, weekdays, weekends and holidays.
• Maintain office hours (as set by your supervisor) and uphold high degree of availability and visibility for all residents.
• Oversee residence hall desk operations
• Effectively manage area and committee budgets, as well as conduct all purchasing for hall activities in accordance with state purchasing expectations
• Exhibit effective time management strategies and excellence in executing tasks.
• Ability to take tasks and work independently and with accuracy.
• Work with confidence and maturity; and understands confidentiality within appropriate settings.
• Participate in department initiatives such as strategic planning, retention initiatives, departmental programming, Housing Sign-ups, Week of Welcome, Opening and Closing of residence halls.
• Work collaboratively with others in the department, division, Student Affairs and university.
• Enforce University and departmental policies and procedures.
• Understand there will be other duties as assigned by supervisors.
• Serve as an administrator and post consistent student focused information on the Marshall University Freshman Facebook groups (first year communities only)