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Residential Advisor
Reports to: Dean of Residential Life
The Residential Advisor oversees the social, emotional, physical, and educational well-being of the students residing in their residence. They create a safe and happy community within their residence by being a welcoming and consistent advisory presence in the everyday life of their students. Together as a team, the Residential Advisors play a key role in supporting the school’s global mission. We safeguard trust with a real family feel that makes our school a home away from home.
As both a start-up and a boarding school, at EF Academy Pasadena our faculty and staff are guided in their practice by an educator competency architecture with four domains that define how to be and become inspiring educators, committed caretakers, courageous innovators, and relationship builders. Working on this team of staff requires a commitment to best practices, a comfort with iteration, and a fervor for collaboration.
Professional Qualifications and Qualities:
Key Responsibilities in each domain:
Committed Caretakers
We take our responsibility of ‘in loco parentis’ very seriously. When students are in our care, they are the most important thing in the world. Every interaction with them should come from the heart.
Relationship Builders
We offer our students a second home. They join an extended family that cares for them, nurtures them and encourages them to become their best selves.
Inspiring Educators
Create meaningful and intentional learning opportunities through residential life programming for students to learn how to be proactive and self-reflective in managing their well-being, developing their independence, and engaging in the community.
Courageous Innovators
Be brave in collaborating with others to implement exciting and creative opportunities for students to develop their cultural competency.
In keeping with the nature of this role in creating a home away from home, other duties may be assigned as required.
Working Hours:
Part-time non-residential positions
This is a non-exempt, hourly position. The average working week will depend on the individual’s availability and agreed through the recruitment process. Part-time hours could be up to 25 hours per week with opportunities for additional hours to cover staff absence, events, activities and busy periods. Hours will range from early mornings, daytime, evenings and will include weekends. The hourly rate for this role is $16.93.
Full-time residential positions:
This is a non-exempt, salaried position. The average working week will be 40 hours per week with opportunities for overtime hours to cover staff absence, events, activities and busy periods. Hours will range from early mornings, daytime, evenings and will include weekends. Full-time positions are usually residential, which means accommodation is provided on campus for 12 months of the year. Overnight on-call duty will be on rotation for all residential full-time roles. The full-time salary for this role is $35,214.
Working and living on campus provides mutual benefit to the employee and the school. In exchange for room and board during the full academic year (including move in, induction, and move out), we expect all team members to be active and flexible participants in our residential community. Please review the details below to ensure that you are willing and able to meet these expectations, understanding that serving the needs of students, immediate or otherwise, is the role of all staff members working as a team:
Public Holidays:
Holidays falling within the academic year require staffing to assist and care for our students. You will be expected to be available to work on a minimum of three of the five Public Holidays, which may involve supervision of students on campus and participation in organized activities or excursions. The work expectations across the five holidays are listed below. Time worked in excess of your usual work week will be paid at overtime rates.
About EF Education First
At EF we believe that the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, we have helped millions of people see new places, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and about themselves. Our culturally immersive education programs—focused on language, travel, cultural exchange, and academics—turn dreams into international opportunities.
When you join EF, you join a multicultural and diverse community working across more than 600 schools and offices in 50 countries, all with one shared mission of opening the world through education. Whoever you are, whatever you are passionate about—we welcome you and want you to bring that to work every day. EF is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to inclusion and belonging across race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, caste, parental status, identity, experience and everything else that makes you unique.
Founded in Sweden in 1965, EF has schools and offices around the world, including hubs in Boston, London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Shanghai, Stockholm, Zürich, and more. Learn more at https://www.ef.com.
Full Time
$55k-71k (estimate)
03/09/2023
05/22/2024
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