Location: Farmingdale, NY Category: Professional Posted On: Fri Jan 17 2025 Job Description: Farmingdale State College seeks a student-centered professional to manage and provide administrative and developmental support for approximately three residence halls with approximately 600 students. Farmingdale's residence halls offer suite-style and traditional corridor-type double and single rooms. The Assistant Director of Residence Life is pivotal in fostering a safe, developmental, inclusive community that supports students' success and personal development. The Assistant Director will establish and implement short and long-term goals and objectives, supervise, train, and develop approximately 3-4 professional staff members, and monitor and evaluate programmatic initiatives, policies, and operating procedures. This position is a 12-month, full-time, live-in position. Responsibilities include: Administrative Leadership + Lead the supervision, development, and evaluation of 3-4 Residence Hall Directors and indirect supervision of approximately 20 paraprofessional staff members. + Advise Residence Hall Directors and Resident Assistants for small and large-scale programming initiatives. + Serve as a liaison to facilities and custodial staff for building and work order concerns. + Responsible for the coordination and implementation of Resident Assistant Recruitment and Selection. + Lead Resident Assistant recruitment, selection, and onboarding processes. + Development and implementation of Resident Assistant training, in-services, and leadership training. + Ongoing review and improvements of the Resident Assistant Handbook, crisis protocols, and Residence Life Handbook. + Manage departmental programming budget. Conduct Management and Crisis Response + Enforcement of the FSC Student and Residential Code of Conduct. + Management of the Student Conduct system for the residential student population. + Serve as an administrative hearing officer to adjudicate student conduct violations and foster restorative practices that promote accountability and personal growth. + Serve in the on-call rotation to provide emergency support during after-hours emergencies, weekends, and holidays. Community Engagement + Advise paraprofessional and professional staff members on small-scale and large-scale programming initiatives for the residential population. + Collaborate with departments to enhance programmatic efforts for the campus population. + Partnership with college prevention specialists to provide educational outreach and programming to the residential student population. + Implementation of assessment practices to understand the needs of the residential student population. + Oversee the First Year Living Learning Community for all first-year residential students. + Represent the department on college committees. The college particularly welcomes candidates with knowledge, skills and abilities that include: + Commitment to diversity and university initiatives supportive of diversity and inclusion. + Interest in participating in student-centered service activities. + Desire to apply expertise in promoting civic engagement with the College's many community partners. Job Requirements: MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: + Bachelor's Degree. + Three (3) years of full-time residence life and housing experience. + Experience with supervising, developing and advising professional staff members. + Demonstrated commitment to valuing diversity and contributing to an equitable and inclusive living and learning environment. + Established proficiency in operational assessment best practices. + Experience managing campus safety protocols, student conduct, and related reporting duties and record retention requirements. + Proven experience in developing and managing departmental budgets. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: + Master's Degree. + Experience with eRezlife Housing Software. + Knowledge and/or experience working with Living Learning Communities. + Experience with Banner Software. + Knowledge of student conduct issues and best practices. Additional Information: This is a full-time UUP position. + For the first 10 working days, beginning Friday, January 17, 2025, and ending Thursday, January 30, 2025, applications will be limited to UUP Farmingdale. + CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS: Open Until Filled + SALARY: $65,000 + $3,400 in downstate location pay = $68,400 Total Compensation. Salary may increase commensurate with experience. The State University of New York offers excellent fringe benefits including health insurance options and retirement plans. Click here for New York State Benefits Summary (https://www.suny.edu/media/suny/content-assets/documents/benefits/benefit-summaries/UUP-FT-Benefits-at-a-Glance.pdf) Visit our Why Work at FSC (https://www.farmingdale.edu/human-resources/why-work-at-farmingdale.shtml) page to learn more about FSC and the total rewards we offer. VISA SPONSORSHIP IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR THIS POSITION The Consumer Information web page can be viewed at the following link http://www.farmingdale.edu/consumer-information/index.shtml This page describes various services, information and statistics on many different aspects of the College's operations. Farmingdale State College's commitment to inclusive excellence is an important part of our mission of public education and our culture. At Farmingdale State College, we continue to work on building a community that supports freedom, mutual respect, and civility. We seek others who support these values of diversity and inclusiveness and candidates of all diverse backgrounds who wish to participate in our cultural aspirations are welcome and encouraged to apply. The College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, familial status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim status or any other legally protected status. Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor's Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@goer.ny.gov.