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Req Id: 41878
Job Title: Student Affairs Administrator, Senior
City: West Lafayette
Job Description:
Job Summary
Reporting to the Associate Director of Residential Conduct, this position reviews the work product of all residential student staff and Residence Education Coordinators related to upholding, documenting, and adjudicating concerns that violate of university policy. Routinely coordinates with the university’s Behavior Intervention Team regarding difficult and complex interpersonal conflicts and disruptive student behavior. This position helps with prevention-based educational programming and directly supervises one graduate assistant and provides functional/administrative supervision to the Residence Education Coordinators.
What We’re Looking For:
When you join Purdue University, you join a community that keeps moving forward. For more than 150 years, we’ve been known for not only our groundbreaking work in STEM research, but also for our collective imagination, ingenuity and innovation.
Job Family
Academic and Student Affairs
Job Sub Family
Student Engagement
Employee Class
Professional
Career Stream
Professional 3
Benefits Eligibility
YES
Education
Typically requires a Bachelor's degree
Experience
Minimum of 4 to 5 years of experience
FLSA Status
Exempt
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Posting Start Date: 5/12/26
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Req Id: 41878
Job Title: Student Affairs Administrator, Senior
City: West Lafayette
Job Description:
Job Summary
Reporting to the Associate Director of Residential Conduct, this position reviews the work product of all residential student staff and Residence Education Coordinators related to upholding, documenting, and adjudicating concerns that violate of university policy. Routinely coordinates with the university’s Behavior Intervention Team regarding difficult and complex interpersonal conflicts and disruptive student behavior. This position helps with prevention-based educational programming and directly supervises one graduate assistant and provides functional/administrative supervision to the Residence Education Coordinators.
What We’re Looking For:
- Bachelor's degree in staff development, leadership, social sciences, counseling or related field
- 4 to 5 years’ experience in housing, student affairs, counseling or related field.
- Ability to assess program effectiveness.
- Effective rapport building and strong interpersonal skills, including excellent written, oral and presentation skills.
- Ability to exercise good judgment and discretion in analyzing and resolving confidential and sensitive situations with minimal supervision.
- Evidence of strong organizational and time management skills and ability to complete multiple tasks in a busy environment.
- Ability to grasp knowledge of policies and procedures related to different aspects of student services.
- Sensitivity to cultural, political, and geographical differences, with the ability to work well with a diverse student body.
- Ability to discern appropriate level of communication with multiple audiences and maintain confidentiality around complex and sensitive issues to be in compliance with applicable ADA, FERPA, and other applicable state, federal, University guidelines.
- Knowledge of college-student development issues and commitment to student service with a vested interest in staying abreast of research in the field of academic and student affairs.
- Ability to analyze and report on compiled data.
- Experience with Microsoft Office applications including PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and Teams.
- Flexibility in work assignments and work hours to include some evenings/weekends.
- Master’s degree
- To learn more about Purdue’s benefits summary
- https://www.purdue.edu/hr/Benefits/employeebenefits/benefits_enrollment/pdf/summaries/2023/Benefits-summary-Admin-Op-2023.pdf
- Purdue will not sponsor employment authorization for this position
- A background check will be required for employment in this position
- FLSA: Non-Exempt (Eligible For Overtime)
- Retirement Eligibility: Non-exempt Defined Contribution Plan
When you join Purdue University, you join a community that keeps moving forward. For more than 150 years, we’ve been known for not only our groundbreaking work in STEM research, but also for our collective imagination, ingenuity and innovation.
Job Family
Academic and Student Affairs
Job Sub Family
Student Engagement
Employee Class
Professional
Career Stream
Professional 3
Benefits Eligibility
YES
Education
Typically requires a Bachelor's degree
Experience
Minimum of 4 to 5 years of experience
FLSA Status
Exempt
Apply now
Posting Start Date: 5/12/26
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