Assistant Resident Director

Assistant Resident Director

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Assistant Resident Director - Graduate Assistantship (Asst. RD/GA) Date: Fall 2025

Department: Student Development

Reports to: Director for Community Life

BASIC FUNCTION:

Facilitates a residential area environment that maximizes student growth and development.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

• Assists in coordinating the programming of academic, spiritual, multicultural, service, and social activities that serve to educate the whole student.
• Directs the following administrative functions within the residence hall: student accountability, activities, on-duty responsibilities, and emergency operations. Assists the RD in administering the following functions: building maintenance, hall operations, budges, and reporting.
• Supports individual residents in personal growth, academic continuance, and wellness.
• Intervenes in crisis situations and maintains current files of counseling and discipline sessions.
• Assists in the selection, training, and supervision of Resident Assistants.
• Remains available and visible to students. The Assistant Resident Director will serve as a liaison between students and other administrators. This includes working to be acquainted with all students, developing rapport with students, being visible at hall and campus events and regularly eating meals in the dining facilities. Furthermore, a resident director must maintain this position as their only form of employment in order to have ample time for the "ministry of presence."
• Submits weekly, semester, and annual reports to Student Development Directors as requested. Communicates regularly to keep Student Development leadership informed regarding problems, trends, and issues within the residential facilities.
• Remains on call daily, August 1 - May 15, except during vacation times when residential facilities are closed or when using 4 nights away as arranged with the Director of Residence Life
  - Remains on campus to close the residential facilities for each vacation period and returns to campus at least 18 hours before the facility officially open after vacation periods.
  - Remains on campus during major community events such as Welcome Week, Homecoming Weekend, Go2BU, Spiritual Emphasis weeks, Leadership Weekend, Graduation Weekend, and the first and last weekend of each semester.
• Assists Bethel University in the following community commitments:
  - To invest in and prioritize the spiritual vibrancy of one another.
  - To celebrate and learn from diverse cultural and racial experiences and heritages.

About Bethel University

The mission of Bethel University, affiliated with the Missionary Church denomination, is to be a community of learners building lives of commitment for leadership in the Church and world. Bethel's liberating academic programs challenge the mind, enlarge the vision, and equip the whole person for lifelong service.

Launched in 1947, Bethel is urban situated in the northern Indiana region hosting 250,000 residents, seven colleges (including Notre Dame), the 2nd largest shopping district in the state of Indiana, 15,000 businesses, 50 parks, and beautiful riverwalk developments in South Bend and Mishawaka. Resort venues on Lake Michigan are 45 minutes away. The university community is composed of about 1,500 traditional and adult/graduate students from 35 states, 90 students born outside the United States, and 225 full-time employees. Bethel also hosts more than 8,000 guests annually to arts productions, 25,000 annually in conference services, and many thousands of community members in support of 40 national athletic championships.

Bethel's 20,000 alumni occupy 49 states and 64 world areas and enjoy a medical school acceptance rate double the national average, 100% job placement rate in Nursing whose program was ranked No. 7 in the United States, a Top 4% finish nationally in competitive math performance tests, and 100% pass rate every year on the national performance standard for a unique academic major in American Sign Language.

For more information visit our website at www.bethelunviersity.edu

Bethel University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, sex, disability, national or ethnic origin in employment opportunities, in keeping with applicable state and federal laws. In keeping with the mission of the institution, Bethel University seeks applicants with a strong commitment to the values and lifestyle of evangelical Christianity and who profess a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. As a Christian institution, we require faculty and staff to adhere to the University's Lifestyle Covenant and to enforce a religiously based statement of responsibilities for all University employees. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Bethel University, as an educational institution operating under the auspices of the Missionary Church, reserves the right to prefer employees on the basis of religion (Title VII, Sections 702-703, United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended).