North Park University Hiring for Director of Residence Life and Housing at Chicago, IL Full Time

Position Summary: The Director of Residence Life is responsible for the visionary leadership and management of operations, a
comprehensive residential living-learning curriculum, and programs with a strategic vision to monitor and increase retention and growth.
This position supervises the professional and paraprofessional staff of the residence life & housing office. North Park University
currently maintains 3 residence halls (capacity 560), 132 apartments (capacity 348), and 11 houses (capacity 64) for the undergraduate
student population and limited housing for graduate students.

Essential Responsibilities:
Provides leadership to
Residence Life by

• Providing the vision and direction for a staff of professionals and resident assistants dedicated to creating
  and maintaining housing environments where students can live, learn, and succeed.
• Fostering an environment for students to
  participate in an array of opportunities such as: leadership learning, social and educational programming, and community responsibility
• Organizing on-going professional development and in-service training for all residence life staff members.
• Recruiting,
  training, and supervising 1 Assistant Director and 2 Area Coordinators.
• Supervising the selection and training of all resident
  assistants.
• Responding to and supporting professional staff on duty and after hour calls.

Provides leadership to Housing
by

• Supervising the assigning of students to appropriate on-campus housing during the fall, spring, and summer semesters, and
  coordinating the housing lottery.
• Managing all housing office related operations including mailings and computer data files.
• Supervising the management of all on-campus residences including special housing arrangements needed during breaks, holidays, and early
  arrivals.
• Participating in the overall planning and management of the campus housing system
• Collaborates with Physical
  Plant to ensure optimal efficiency for maintenance and custodial operations

Provide management and execution of the University
judicial and student conduct procedures by

• Manages the daily operations of the student conduct process, ensuring consistency
  and equity
• Clearly communicating, interpreting, and enforcing department and university policies to students.
• Ensuring professional staff and resident assistants are appropriately confronting and documenting behavioral issues and concerns.
• Reviewing all incidents and communicate with Dean of Students when necessary.
• Adjudicating student conduct cases, refer cases
  as needed, and coordinate and consult with Dean of Students regarding high level conduct cases or ongoing situations of concern.
• Providing training to residence life professional staff and other community members who may participate in a student conduct panel.
• Providing campus programs and other proactive educational interventions to minimize behavioral issues.
• Assessing and revising
  student conduct policy and procedure as appropriate.

Establishes and maintains retention practices and data by:

• Supervising the developing, implementing and evaluating of the residential curriculum
• Providing assessment for residence life
  and housing policies, processes, and initiatives.
• Reviewing housing trends and making recommendations to retain students in campus
  housing.
• Working with Campus Safety to ensure the security and safety of resident students.

Provide administrative
leadership by:

• Developing liaisons with appropriate academic, financial, administrative, and student services offices.
• Ensuring professional staff and resident assistants understand their roles and applies Title IX and Sexual Misconduct Policy and Policy
  Against Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation.
• Serving on various teams to provide information and awareness in times of
  crisis and risk management
• Integrating residence life into the campus strategic planning process with other student engagement
  offices.
• Managing the housing and residence life budgets.

Ability to fulfill on-call responsibilities as deemed
appropriate by the AVP/Dean of Students; requires Director to live near campus within a reasonable distance.

On occasion, there may
be evening or weekend responsibilities.

Maintain and promote high levels of confidentiality and professionalism within the office and
divisions.

Support the mission and goals of the University and the Division of Student Engagement by assuming other
responsibilities as assigned by the Vice President of Student Engagement and/or Assistant Vice President and Dean of Students.