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Salary Range: $25,344 - $38,016

Residential Coordinator

United World College-USA is seeking a Residential Coordinator to start in August 2022. Reporting to the Director of Student Life, the Residential Coordinator (RC) is part of a larger vision to enhance student support and the student experience toward mission and values alignment, guided by evidence-based practices of healthy adolescent development and socio-emotional learning. Student success, support, and wellness are supported by this position.

The RC is on the front-line of all aspects of residential life, facilitating and supporting how students live the mission and values within one of the residential houses (approximately 40-50 students) through programming, monitoring and reporting students of concern, upholding community standards, and pastoral care. Furthermore, the RC will empower students towards the development of personal integrity, healthy adult-youth relationships, and peer-to-peer accountability. Each RC position also supports our signature programs: arts and culture, wilderness, constructive engagement of conflict, and sustainability.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work collaboratively with the residential staff and team to build community within the residential houses, consistent with the values and mission of the UWC movement
• Build positive student relationships that contribute toward deepening the student experience
• Coordinate student care in collaboration with the Dean of Students, residential staff, counselors, health clinic staff, and faculty
• Work as a team to place incoming students with roommates to form a diverse, inclusive and collaborative residential hall.
• Work with the Director of Student Life in coordinating programming to address student wellness; hold individual wellness assessment interviews with each student twice a year.
• Supervise and assist in training Assistant Residential Coordinators and student Resident Assistants
• Support utilization of resident assistant handbook, supervise selection process of student RA’s, and provide training along with residential team
• Maintain regular office hours, complete administrative tasks on time and in a thorough manner including daily/weekly/semester reports, credit card receipt tracking, and student data
• Uphold residential and community standards policies and procedures.
• Communicate proactively with teaching faculty regarding students of concern; respond to faculty and parent/family concerns
• Submit incident reports as needed and serve as community standards officer in responding to student behavior
• Attend all residential meetings and hold house team meetings on a regular schedule
• Proactively build a culture of safety, respect, engagement, and responsibility
• Submit and follow-up with maintenance requests for assigned house
• Coordinate weekend supervision with the Director of Student Life
• Complete “check” as assigned and perform regular campus walk-throughs until midnight
• Assist with orientation and the opening and closing of residential houses
• Sponsor one Experiential Education activity and one Residential focus area
• Drive for student activities and events
• Assist with major campus events including Annual Conference, MLK Day, UWC Day, service days, retreats and student arrival and departures.
• Lead two week-long trips (Southwest Studies and Project Week)
  • Up to 14 students
  • Includes approximately 20 additional hours of meetings, planning, and prep prior to the trips.
• Participate in diversity, equity, inclusion programming and professional development
• Complete annual certification in First Aid/CPR, Adolescence Mental Health First Aid, Constructive Engagement of Conflict and/or Experiential Education
• Assist with Peer Educator wellness training, related to issues of consent, addiction and substance abuse prevention and mental health
• Help maintain a healthy presence in the dining hall by monitoring one meal per week
• Other duties as assigned by the Director of Student Life
• Leadership: All UWC-USA employees are expected to provide varying levels of leadership in order to support the UWC mission. Examples include but are not limited to:
  • Actively participating and contributing to committee or task force assignments, providing leadership in campus-wide events or initiatives, strategic planning efforts, in the experiential education program, the dormitories, dining hall, and/or in physical plant initiatives.
  • Initiating strategic discussions and sharing thoughtful and innovative ideas with your co-workers for carrying out the UWC mission and successfully completing day to day work assignments.
  • Demonstrating a growth mindset by believing and acknowledging that intelligence, skills, learning and creativity can all grow with time and experience.

WORKING CONDITIONS

• Living on the UWC-USA campus required
• RCs live in a private apartment inside the dorm building they supervise
• Evenings and weekends required, including on call flexibility
• A typical work week is Thursday - Monday. Active work hours are primarily afternoon and evenings, with some late night responsibilities.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred with focus in counseling, leadership, education, or related field. Five or more years of experience with adolescents in a residential setting may be considered in lieu of education.
• Experience working within residential communities required.
• Must possess strong desire to work with 16-19 year-olds in a dynamic international boarding environment.
• Keen understanding of issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Excellent organizational skills, relationship building skills, and communication skills required.
• Desire to contribute creatively and effectively to the UWC mission and values.
• Must be willing to drive fifteen passenger vehicles and possess a clean driving record and U.S. driver’s license.
• Living within assigned residential house required.

Desired Qualifications:

• Knowledge of the UWC movement
• Knowledge of trauma-informed care practices
• Experience working within an international community
• Experience with student disciplinary processes and procedures, particularly restorative justice
• Working knowledge of adolescent student development theory
• Working knowledge of Google Suite, ability to learn other software as needed
• CDL Driver/willingness to be trained

This is a full-time, 10-month, exempt, live-on position to include on-call flexibility. A typical work week is Thursday - Monday. Active work hours are primarily afternoon and evenings, with some late night responsibilities. Compensation is commensurate with experience; and UWC-USA offers a competitive benefits package.

UWC-USA is an international boarding school. It enrolls up to 240 students in grades 11 and 12. All students follow the IB Diploma Program. Roughly twenty percent of the students come from the U.S.; the remainder represent more than 90 different countries. Students are admitted on the basis of merit, potential, and promise.

To apply, complete an application form. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. The successful candidate is required to either be vaccinated, as vaccines are available, or provide a medical or religious waiver, prior to starting this position at UWC-USA.

UWC-USA does not discriminate in its educational programs, activities, or admission and employment practices based on race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion, ancestry, or any other legally protected class.