Residence Director

• Maximize job performance, personal growth, and leadership development of Residence Life Student Staff (RLSS) – equipping them to foster safe and healthy communities marked by biblical principles and the Fresno Pacific University idea.
  • Facilitate weekly individual and group staff meetings to?disseminate?information, provide training experiences, foster personal and professional growth, provide feedback/evaluation and develop a sense of team cohesiveness and vision.
  • Assist the Director of Residence Life and Housing in the recruitment, selection, and training of RLSS.

• Demonstrate healthy practices of living in community, including, but not limited to, hospitality, interpersonal competencies, conflict resolution, and unconditional positive regard.
• Build supportive relationships and develop rapport with students in living areas.
  • Counsel residents with personal and emotional concerns and intervene in crisis situations.
  • Develop a growing understanding and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in an effort to promote student sense of belonging.
  • Provide intervention, advising, support, and accountability for students faced with unhealthy choices, relationships, or lifestyles.
  • Communicate, interpret, and implement university policies and procedures to students.
  • Connect residents to applicable FPU tools and resources aid in student wholeness and persistence.
• Foster a hospitable community where visitation, care, encouragement, and support are the norm.
  • Walk through your student living areas at least twice each week(rounds)– getting to know students, providing support, and offering encouragement.
  • Demonstrate hospitality – regularly hosting students to provide social, safe, developmental experiences where healthy lifestyles, relationships, and behaviors are modeled.
• Actively participate in the creation of a healthy, vibrant student experience.
  • Plan and coordinate educational, spiritual, and social programming in living areas – ensuring the student experience contributes to the mission and philosophy of the university.
  • Assist RLSS in planning, development, and implementation of programs that will enhance community and student development.
  • Promote awareness, attendance, engagement, and enthusiasm for campus events.
  • Attend in person and on-line training, for knowledge-based skills and professional development assigned by the Director of Residence Life & Housing.
• Contribute to the Student Development team – working collaboratively within the team and with other departments on campus.
  • Participate in the following team meetings, including sharing updates from living areas when appropriate:
    • Weekly Residence Life meeting
    • Weekly Student Conduct meeting

• Bi-weekly Student Development Staff Meeting
• Bi-weekly one-on-one meeting with the Director of Residence Life and Housing
• Contribute to the professional development of the Residence Life and Student Development staff, keeping appraised of new developments in student affairs and higher education.
• Manage a professional and active relationship with students, parents, staff, faculty, and others to understand the University’s unique needs.
• Be available for all major campus events such as Thanksgiving banquet, MCC Sale, housing opening/closing fall and spring, new student orientation, graduation (Spring/Fall), etc.
• Provide emergency assistance for campus community by participating in an on-duty rotation along with the Director of Residence Life & Housing.
  • Respond as necessary, and in compliance with university policies and procedures, to emergency calls from Campus Safety and Residence Life Student Staff.
  • Intervene and implement University policy and procedures in crisis situations and contact additional professional staff and Campus Safety as necessary.
  • Continue to follow up with student issues requiring ongoing care.
• Assist in the implementation of student conduct procedures
  • Ensure incident reports are properly submitted, documenting emergency situations that arise while on duty or under your supervision.
  • Support the Restorative Discipline process by submitting reports, investigating reports by meeting with those involved, and providing information to necessary university parties.
  • Participate/lead Community Justice Conferences and follow up to ensure successful completion of agreements/corrective measures.
• Steward resources by directing all administrative functions for assigned areas.
  • Submit periodic reports to the Director of Residence Life and Housing.
  • Supervise check-in/check-out procedures, room inventories, work orders, and other tasks as assigned by the Director of Residence Life and Housing.
  • Contribute to the Residence Life Program by overseeing a specialized area of residential programs such as men’s/women’s ministries, assessment, multi-media, etc.
  • Oversee assigned budget(s) for living area events and RLSS professional development.
• Demonstrate a commitment to serving and inspiring students and colleagues in a context of a Christian University, integrating your lived Christian faith into your role and responsibilities.

• Embrace the mission, vision, and values of Fresno Pacific University, affirm the FPU Faith Expectations, and support the ideals and practices articulated in “The Fresno Pacific Idea”
• Uphold and advance Fresno Pacific University’s commitment to Christ-centered higher education, holistic student development, and serving diverse communities.
• Complete tasks timely with work that is comprehensive, complete, and accurate
• Communicates clearly, listens attentively, and seeks to understand others
• Collaborates productively with colleagues of varying skillset 
• Other job duties as assigned

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience in the field of Residence Life or Housing as a professional or para-professional
• Excellent computer skills in a Microsoft Windows environment including Word and Excel
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to interact with people in a warm, professional manner
• Ability to respond to emotional student and employee situations in a calming and resilient manner
• Ability to be available to engage with students during evening hours and willingness to host RLSS and residents on a scheduled basis
• Organizational capabilities, detail orientation and the ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously
• Team player with the ability to work with minimal supervision

• Ability to learn new and innovative technology
• Valid driver’s license and ability to drive to various appointments
• Ability to quickly perform analytical and cognitive thinking and decision making

Preferred:

• Master’s degree in College Student Development, Higher Education, Counseling, or related field
• Supervisory experience
• Ability to interview, train, and orient student staff

Environmental Conditions:

• Indoors in a normal office environment with little exposure to excessive noise, dust, fumes, vibrations, and temperature changes at least eighty percent (80%) of the time.
• Frequent computer use at a workstation, up to eight hours per day.
• Frequently work at a fast pace with unscheduled interruptions.
• Drive personal or University vehicles to appointments.
• Public contact position requiring professional apparel, personal hygiene, and grooming.

Physical Demands:

• This position typically functions indoors in an office environment with light to moderate noise associated with business office equipment. The position may involve travel for meetings and events.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to: remain in a stationary position 80 % of the time, be able to move about inside the office to access file cabinets/office machinery etc., operate a computer and keyboard and other office productivity machinery such as calculators/copy machines/printers. The employee is occasionally required to position self to reach items on the floor and in high cabinetry. 
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Employee must be able to communicate with others to exchange information including both over the telephone and in-person communication with callers and community members and be able to read a computer screen and paper documents.
• Reasonable accommodations for those with disabilities will be provided in accordance with law.