Graduate Resident Director

Position Type: Federal Work Study Or Non Work Study
 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

• Represent The Residence Life Office.
• Assist with the overall departmental functions: Including office operations, staff selection and training and development, implementing and enforcing policies and procedures, recognition and evaluation.
• During opening 6 weeks, provide leadership to an area staff in the achievement of the programmatic goals and objectives of that area with supervision of hall staff.
• Serve in on-campus professional staff duty rotation, which will include weeknights, weekends and some holidays.
• During opening 6 weeks, organize and facilitate regularly scheduled staff meetings, individual meetings with the director, individual meetings with staff members and Residence Life meetings.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Conferred Bachelor’s Degree.
• Enrolled in Master’s degree program.
• Available 20 hours per week.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Commitment to the Detroit Mercy mission.
• Commitment to student-initiated programming and student empowerment.
• Desire to work in a highly collaborative environment and has shown an ability to work well with others.
• Demonstrate creativity, initiative, and ability to effect change.
• Sensitivity to and having an understanding of the diverse academic, socio-economic and cultural backgrounds of students and their families, while establishing, maintaining and fostering a positive working relationship with relative constituents.
• Must be willing to live on-campus

Anticipated Schedule: 

• Varies.

Job Contact:  

• Sandra Alef - alefsj@udmercy.edu - (313) 993-1231