Residence Director

The Residence Director (RD) is a 12 month, full-time, preference for master's level, professional staff member in the Department of Residence Life & Housing and has direct responsibility for student development functions and the effective administration of a residential community housing a diverse population of 330-500 students and staffed by 8-12 paraprofessional staff.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Supervise and establish performance goals for Resident Assistants and Graduate Residence Director staff in the residence halls.
• Establish positive relationships with students through informal interactions, programs, counseling, and/or referrals for students as related to academic, social, and personal matters.
• Enforce university policies within the residence hall. Serve as a primary hearing officer for judicial matters within the residence hall.
• Serve as a resource person for students.  Be knowledgeable of residence hall, academic, and university policies, procedures, and resources
• Coordinate room reservations for common areas within residence hall.
• Be accountable for key maintenance. Request lock changes if residents lose keys and charges to accounts.
• To maintain student files in each office and make sure each resident has a mailbox
• Hiring Student Workers, filling out the appropriate authorization forms, devising a work schedule based on the office needs and students’ awards, submitting timesheets on a bi-weekly schedule as according to the Payroll schedule, holding a training meeting once per semester, and hold workers accountable for their schedule and work performance.
• Hold regular, posted office hours and be available for interaction with students.
• Hold weekly building staff meetings. Attend departmental and divisional staff meetings.
• Conduct weekly walk-throughs of building to ensure maintenance up-keep in addition to the monthly health & safety inspections.
• Prepare building for openings and closings, including academic breaks. Maintain room inventories and other building-related paperwork.  Monitor damage and provide billing information to the Operations Coordinator.  Assess damage and compile work list at the end of each semester. Walk-though the building weekly to assess damages, lounge set-ups, usage, etc.  Walk through buildings weekly in the summer to assess progress (of work list) and readiness for incoming conference groups.
• Maintain cooperative work relationship with offices on campus, including but not limited to Suffolk University Police Department; Bursar; Facilities; Dining; Counseling, Health, and Wellness office; Office of Diversity Services; Student Leadership and Involvement; Orientation and New Student Programs; and the Dean of Students Office.
• Oversee development of monthly building newsletter and programming calendar
• Maintain up-to-date budget records and timely submission of budget-related paperwork.