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Colorado School Of Mines Residence Life Coordinator in Golden, Colorado
Engineering a world of possibilities The Residence Life Coordinator (RLC)
The Opportunity
Colorado School of Mines welcomes applications for a Residence Life Coordinator (RLC) who is responsible for the student experience within a residential community consisting of 300-500 students, and supervises (both directly and indirectly) 10 - 30 student staff members. The RLC serves on the professional staff team for the Department of Residence Life. Responsibilities include understanding and stewardship of the residents, staff, and physical facilities of their assigned area. The RLC must possess excellent decision-making and leadership skills. This position is a 12-month live-in position that requires flexible scheduling designed to address participation in the on-call rotation throughout the year and during weekday, weekend and holidays including fall break, Thanksgiving break, winter break, and spring break.
The Office of Residence Life is a fast-paced, student-centered, collaborative environment. We are an office of 15 professionals and 100+ student staff, who work hard to make Residence Life and the Mines campus a positive community for students and each other. We take our jobs very seriously but don't take ourselves too seriously.
A sense of humor and adaptability are important for this role. No single day looks the same, and often our carefully curated schedules get thrown out the window. But our work is important to the learning and growth of our students, and we must be adaptable to their needs.
To learn more about our team, please visit our website: https://www.mines.edu/residence-life/staff/.
Primary Responsibilities
Resident Learning
Create a positive residential experience that promotes learning and retention of students through the facilitation of the Resident Learning Model (RLM).
Develop connections with residents through daily informal interactions, scheduled meetings, and attending events and programs.
Oversee assigned residence hall or apartment community programming initiatives including, but not limited to respect, inclusion, community, learning, and responsibility.
Oversee Signature Learning Communitieswithin assigned community and all subsequent student programming, liaising between the academic faculty, and appropriate branding, and assessment.
Staffing, Supervision & Advising
Supervise a student staff of 10-30 (i.e., Resident Advisors, Desk Director, and Desk Assistants).
Serve as the advisor to a Community Council (elected student leaders who advocate and provide programming for their residence hall community) as well as support the Residence Hall Association.
Assist with department-wide efforts to recruit, select, and train student and full-time staff.
Student Care and Support
Promote a safe and secure living environment, respond to student concerns, crises, and emergencies as they arise, and work collaboratively with various campus and community partners on education and response to emergencies or crimes.
Follow-up on residents of concern, emergency, interpersonal conflict, and crisis situations that pertain to residents.
Serve as the on-call professional staff on campus in the on-call rotation for the Department.
Serve as a student conduct officer for minor and mid-level conduct issues, under supervision of Dean of Students Office and Director of Residence Life.
Operations
Collaborate with facilities management and custodial services to ensure the maintenance of residential community through regular, intentional communication and building assessment.
Oversee desk operations of assigned community, including key/access management, issuing packages and mail, setting expectations, and providing excellent customer service.
Additional Duties
Duties will include up to 15% of overall work and can change as deemed necessary by the Associate Director of Residence Life. Possible collateral duties includ , but are not limited to, the following:
Participate in department level committees, initiatives, and task forces including staff recruitment/selection, training and development, staff evaluations, etc.
Serve on Campus Wide Committees and initiatives.
Co-advise the Residence Hall Association (RHA).
