Community Coordinator

Community Coordinator

Location:

Kennesaw, Georgia
Regular/Temporary:
Regular
Full/Part Time:
Full-Time
Job

Are you ready to transform lives through academic excellence, innovative research, strong community partnerships and economic opportunity? Kennesaw State University is one of the 50 largest public institutions in the country. With growing enrollment and global reach, we continue to expand our institutional influence and prominence beyond the state of Georgia. We offer more than 190 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees to empower our 47,000 students to become thought leaders, lifelong learners, and informed global citizens.

Our entrepreneurial spirit, high-impact research, and Division I athletics draw students from throughout the region and from more than 100 countries across the globe. Our university's vibrant culture, career opportunities, rich benefits, and values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability make us an employer of choice. We are part of the University System of Georgia. We are searching for talented people to join Kennesaw State University in our vision.

Come Take Flight at KSU!

Our Kennesaw campus is located at 1000 Chastain Road NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144. Our Marietta campus is located at 1100 South Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30060.

Supports Residence life leadership in the general oversight of the Residence Life program for assigned residential community. Provides support through direct supervision of assigned staff and/or student assistants, general administration, community development, crisis management and collaboration with operations and facilities staff. Provides guidance to residents and serves as the primary conduct officer for the assigned community through reviewing and adjudicating student conduct cases.

• Provides supervision, training and evaluation of assigned staff and/or student assistants
• Assesses student and community institutional support needs
• Creates and implements programming designed to address needs
• Communicates, interprets, supports, and enforces department and university policies to staff and students
• Provides complex and high-level crisis management interventions for live-in students
• Functions as primary hearing officer for high level student conduct violation hearings including second offenses, drug allegations, etc.
• Participates in planning and implementation of a curricular model for residential student experience
• Serves on departmental and institutional committees and task forces designed to drive student engagement across campus and participates in professional development activities
• Responsible for total management of annual budget to include ownership of budget and decision-making regarding expenditures and requests and prepares monthly engagement reports
• Maintains accessibility to staff and residents beyond traditional office hours (i.e., university events, department programming, meetings)

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution of higher education

• Current, valid and unrestricted driver's license

• One (1) year of related experience

• An advanced degree from an accredited institution of higher education in Student Personnel, Higher Education, or related field

• Previous leadership and supervisory experience
• Experience in Residence Life or Student Affairs

• Able to supervise assigned staff and/or student assistants
• Able to navigate crisis management scenarios involving problem solving and critical thinking
• Able to communicate with residents and resident assistants regarding the management of their residential living spaces
• Able to interpret and enforce policies and procedures
• Able to promote and support the department and University's mission and goals
• Provides rotating on-call emergency assistance as live-in Residence Life staff member
• Demonstrates ability to develop relationships with others and work in partnership with staff, faculty, administrators, and…