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Community Director For Greek Housing

Union College
Schenectady, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 Mar 2025
💰 $51,480/yr

About the role

The Community Director (CD) is responsible for the comprehensive management of 1-2 residence halls or smaller cluster of houses, approximately 350 residents and supervising up to 12 student staff members.

Position Title: Community Director 

Pay Status and Classification: Exempt, Regular Full-time

This is a full-time, twelve-month live-in position that includes a furnished on-campus apartment including utilities with responsibility of serving on-call and supporting evening and weekend activities.

Supervisor: Director of Residential Education & Housing

Position Purpose: 

Reporting to one of three Associate Directors, the Community Director (CD) is responsible for the comprehensive management of 1-2 residence halls or smaller cluster of houses, approximately 350 residents and supervising up to 12 student staff members. The CD serves as an active and visible residential life staff member that is responsible for facilitating an engaging building community-level residential experience that is highly relational; fosters curiosity and learning; centers well-being; and supports students in successfully finding their way. Primary duties and responsibilities include: implementing the residential engagement model, administration and supervision, support for student development, crisis management, student conduct administration, community development, collaboration with facility management, as well as college and departmental committee assignments.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties: This position works directly with our Fraternity and Sorority Life Community, overseeing 10 fraternity/sorority housing units and serving as an advisor for at least one Greek council and other community building initiatives.

Community Development: 

  • Works proactively toward creating an inclusive community atmosphere in which people respect each other’s rights, cultures, and sensitivities. 

  • Develop, implement, manage, and assess student engagement and community development initiatives as well as Collaborate with other departments across the college through the Student & Campus Life.

  • Provides accurate advice and guidance to students based on their individual needs. 

  • Establishes a schedule that is appropriate for a student-facing, residentially focused role. Schedules work hours that meet the needs of students inside the assigned community. This includes some evening and weekend hours essential for programs and training. Maintains a visible and active presence in their residence hall(s).

  • Actively engage with students and community through frequently attending community engagement and campus events, community walk throughs and open office hours.

  • Support specific community needs as associated with assigned residence halls, which could include fraternity/sorority housing, theme communities, the Minerva Program (our living learning community), and others.

Supervision: 

  • Select, train, supervise, evaluate and develop student staff, consisting of an undergraduate Head Resident Assistant (HRA), several undergraduate Resident Assistants (RA) and possible House Managers (HMs), who shall jointly assist in the development of a residential environment for learning

  • Ensures ongoing staff development to help student staff learn leadership skills and mentor others. 

  • Plans weekly staff meetings and meets with each staff member individually on a routine basis. 

  • Educates all student staff about various campus resources. 

  • Manages and supports community development efforts, including the implementation of curricular engagement guides and corresponding assessments.

Health and Safety: 

  • Monitors and intervenes with students who may be struggling academically and/or with other behavioral and developmental issues. 

  • Refers accordingly to services as needed. 

  • Participates in regular professional staff on-call rotation, providing crisis intervention and serving as a resource or referral agent. Mediates roommate conflicts. Responsible for performing weekly and break on call duty coverage as directed

  • Understands and enforces Code of Student Conduct and other policies regarding behavior, safety, security, health, and other matters in cooperation with the appropriate offices. 

  • Serves as a campus hearing officer through service as an educator durin

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