POSITION SUMMARY: The Resident Director (RD) is charged with developing a community that promotes engagement, learning, respect for diversity, and student success. The RD must be passionate about creating a safe, welcoming environment where all students feel supported, encouraged, challenged, and valued. The RD will assist with training, supervising, and evaluating Residential Assistant (RA) student staff members. Additionally, this position will support the planning and implementing programs related to the University's retention, persistence, academic success, and graduation goals. The RD is a purposefully different leader, modeling servant leadership to live out the University’s mission to develop Christlike disciples through higher education. This is a 12-month live-in position and will be considered essential personnel during some crises. We are actively recruiting both male and female resident director positions at this time.

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements below represent knowledge, skill, and/or ability. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform basic functions.

A bachelor’s degree is required, and a master’s degree in student development, higher education, counseling, or a related field is preferred. Experience in residential life and campus programming is preferred; Experience conducting student leadership training and program planning in a college environment is preferred.

MACU reserves the right to consider an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience necessary to perform the major duties and responsibilities of the position successfully.

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with various concrete variables in situations with limited standardization. Ability to interpret multiple instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. Ability to evaluate staff performance and provide necessary training for improvement.

To perform this job successfully, an individual should know Microsoft Office Suite, CRM software, Cloud-based dialers, Microsoft Internet Explorer software, and Google Suite (Email, Drives, Spreadsheets).

The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

The work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.