Residence Life Coordinator

Responsibilities and Duties

Leadership

• Facilitate initiatives and practices that promote an inclusive and welcoming community. Conduct educational outreach around diversity awareness, social justice, and equity among students in the residence halls.
• Provide leadership to a residence hall community of 300-450 first year and upper‑class students.
• Select, train, and evaluate a team of 8‑13 Resident Assistants, 12‑24 Community Center Assistants, and 1‑2 Community Center Managers.
• Promote personal and professional growth among staff by conducting one‑on‑one meetings, weekly staff meetings, and providing ongoing feedback to foster community engagement and development.
• Facilitate student success by mentoring and guiding staff to build meaningful relationships with resident students, coworkers, and supervisors.
• Develop staffs’ leadership skills through creating expectations, goal setting, and prompting reflection.
• Train staff to complete administrative tasks integral to maintaining housing operations, safety, and security.
• Advise building council (hall government) to serve the residence hall community by means of student advocacy, leadership skill development, team building, and programming.

Community Building

• Embody the department’s residential engagement model through multiple avenues that include but are not limited to in‑hall opportunities, large‑scale events, student interactions, community walks, co‑curricular involvement, and educational programming informed by the residential curriculum.
• Share experiences through conversations, programming, and other engaging initiatives.
• Maintain visibility in residence hall as resource, support, and member of the community.

Student Learning and Education

• Lead residential engagement efforts by providing all students with a level of immersion that prompts them to learn about themselves and others, while reflecting on their multiple roles and responsibilities within the community.
• Facilitate residential curricular initiatives within the community and hold RAs accountable to completing curricular requirements within their role.
• Partner with Residential Education staff to oversee assigned Living Learning Communities while developing working relationships with faculty and staff campus partners.
• Educate, explain, interpret, and reinforce policies as outlined in Policies for On‑Campus Housing, the Student Code of Conduct, the Housing & Residence Life Housing Contract, and staff manuals.

Conflict Management

• Utilize restorative practices to work with students who experience peer and community conflict.
• Follow up and make timely referrals for students of concern.
• Serve as conduct hearing officer responsible for meeting with, educating, and sanctioning following expectations for the Department of Housing & Residence Life and the Office of Student Accountability and Restorative Practices.
• Participate in departmental on‑call rotation to ensure the safety and well‑being of students.

Administration

• Manage and allocate the Resident Assistant and Building Council programming budgets.
• Oversee housing occupancy and building management by facilitating building openings and closings, building access, room change requests, and key inventory.
• Maintain exceptional physical condition of residence halls by proactively identifying needs, reporting issues, assessing damage, and assigning billing as appropriate.
• Ensure building safety by facilitating health & safety inspections and safety drills.
• Actively participate in departmental committees, taskforces, and working groups.

Other Responsibilities

• During the summer:
  Assist with building transition to summer conferences, represent department in new student orientation sessions, maintain building operations for summer school.
• Meetings and Trainings:
  Attend department meetings and ongoing trainings as scheduled.
• Assist with university events such as:
  Admissions Open House, Welcome to TU, Tiger Fest, Homecoming, etc.
• Provide assistance when required with administrative or programmatic tasks for the department or division of student affairs.

Telework may be available for this position up to two days per week following the completion of 90 days of service in good standing.

Required Qualifications:

• Master's Degree and one year of relevant experience.
• Demonstrate a high level of integrity by connecting personal and departmental values.
• Highly adaptable with a strong desire to learn.
• Ability to communicate thoughts with clarity, demonstrate active listening, and ask appropriate questions.

Preferred

Qualification:

• Experience in residence life

Organization: Student Affairs Division

Primary

Location:

Main Campus

Job Posting: Dec 19, 2025