Resident Director at Western New England University in Springfield, Massachusetts

Job Description:

The Resident Director is responsible for the overall management of a residential facility, including student development, staff supervision, community building, programming, and administrative duties. The Resident Director serves as a live-in staff member and is responsible for the safety and well-being of the residential community. The Resident Director seeks to provide a welcoming, inclusive, safe, and secure living, learning community that aligns with the university, division, and department mission. The Resident Director will supervise a group of Resident Advisors (RAs) and at least one Head Resident Advisor (HRA). This position promotes justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) initiatives; involves programming and resident education; responds to student conduct and facilitates conflict resolution; includes incident response and crisis management; requires facilities, operations, and building management; and includes administrative responsibilities and project management. In addition, some Resident Directors are assigned— up to five (5) hours per week—to a collateral assignment in another department with other general responsibilities. 

The Resident Director is a 3-year, full-time 12-month, live-in/live-on professional staff member for the department of Residence Life in the subdivision of Student Life. This position is an opportunity for entry-level professionals to develop skills and gain experience in the field of Residence Life, Student Affairs, or Higher Education. Resident Directors serve in a duty rotation responding to and supporting Resident Advisors and other campus partners. This position has supervision of a staff of at least six (6) Resident Advisors.

Residence Directors are required to work some evenings and weekends over the course of the year. This position has some flexibility with hours to allow for peak student interaction. In addition to a 12-month salary, this position includes: a furnished apartment with utilities; access to free laundry facilities; a staff meal plan during the academic year; excellent benefits and time off; and professional development opportunities.

Excellent benefits including tuition remission for employee, spouse, and dependent children.

Western New England University (WNE) is a private, nationally ranked, comprehensive institution with a focus on preparing work-ready and world-ready graduates. Founded in 1919 in Springfield, Massachusetts as a division of Northeastern College, WNE’s 215-acre suburban campus serves more than 3,700 students, including over 2,500 full-time undergraduates. More than 47,000 alumni have earned degrees through its 90+ undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs at Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business, Engineering, and Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and School of Law. Students come from 39 U.S. states and territories and 23 countries. Of 45,104 living alumni, 30% remain within the region, residing in the four Western Massachusetts counties and northern Connecticut.

WNE is classified among nationally ranked universities in US News and World Report, and among the Top 100 Undergraduate Engineering programs, and in the Doctoral/Professional Universities category in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

Western New England University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We welcome candidates whose background may contribute to the further diversification of our community.

To apply to this position please visit http://employment.wne.edu.