Student and Campus Life (SCL) inspires transformation in all Cornell students on their journey of individual, academic and personal evolution. Our division is comprised of leading student affairs experts who support our campus on pressing student life matters including public service, health, wellness, social justice, residential living, food services, sports, recreation, career services, and student activities and organizations including sorority and fraternity life. We provide support and services to roughly 25,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students on multiple campuses in the U.S. and abroad.

Housing & Residential Life:

The Office of Housing & Residential Life is committed to providing a residential experience of the highest quality for each of our residents. This includes providing a safe, comfortable, diverse, as well as purposeful living and learning environment aligned with universities values and learning goals. Through partnerships with university faculty and staff, we foster students' personal growth, critical thinking, intellectual engagement, and social responsibility that is designed to educate, challenge and develop our students.

Pillars of our Residential Experience

• Belonging at Cornell
• Social Responsibility
• Academic Empowerment
• Culture of Care
• Navigating Transitions

The Impact:

The Residence Hall Director (RHD) is a 12-month, live in position that provides leadership, community and program development, administrative management, student conduct management, and support for a particular community ranging in 60-500 undergraduate students. Depending on the type and size of the residence hall, the RHD will supervise, train and utilize approximately 5-20 resident advisors (RA), or other student leaders. RHD's will work collaboratively with their teams and with a cohort of Faculty & Community Fellows, Faculty-in-Residence in some first year communities, or appropriate campus partners and/or aligned academic departments. The RHD is ultimately expected to provide a safe, inclusive, purposeful living and learning environment to support student involvement, development and active citizenship.

What success looks like:

A successful Residence Hall Director must demonstrate strong innovative programming skills that promote co-curricular engagement while effectively balancing administrative tasks with critical student interactions in order to support individual and student successes. The RHD should have an enthusiasm for working with a diverse populations of students and can successfully collaborate with academic departments, University offices, and alumni groups as appropriate. The RHD must remain flexible, supportive, and engaged through exercising good judgment and sound decision-making skills to ensure a safe and enriching environment for our students.

Position Benefits:

• Position includes a furnished apartment, laundry in-unit, partner policy, pet policy, partial meal plan to facilitate student engagement, and many University benefits.
• To review benefits please look at our HR website

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 2 years of relevant work experience in residential administration, community development, student affairs program planning or implementation at the graduate, or professional level. Undergraduate level experience will be considered to a lesser degree than professional or graduate experience
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills including verbal and written communication
• Demonstrated experience in being a team player, ability to manage priorities, and working in a fast-paced environment
• Incumbent will be required to live-in the residence halls 12 months per year

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in student personnel/higher education or closely related field is strongly preferred.
• Passion and excitement for working with students in residence.
• Experience in using a variety of basic and advanced business/technical programs/applications to perform responsibilities involving data management and analysis

Type of Communities:

The Housing & Residential Life program includes cooperative houses, graduate and professional student housing, Program Houses that have a focused identity and/or themed living environments, a focused First Year Residential Experience on North Campus, and a unique upper-class and transfer student experience on North and South Campus. In addition, there is significant faculty engagement in the residential communities, with faculty-in-residence living in the first-year communities and over 110 faculty and community members spread throughout all of the residential communities. To see details around our unique residential communities, please visit our housing landing pages listed below.

First-year/Upper-Level (sophomore-senior) Housing:

Our first-Year and upper-Level student housing focuses on transitioning students as they begin or continue through their Cornell and college journey. Communities have a variety of configurations and sizes but all are coed with the exception of one building which is open to female and non-binary-identified students only. Regardless of size, each residence halls are supportive communities for residents to learn, develop and come together in a variety of ways. You can find details on all of our residential communities by visiting:

Program Houses

Program Houses are Living Learning Communities which focus on a variety of interests and affinities. These close-knit communities have a high level of involvement, with regular events, programming, and outreach opportunities, often in collaboration with their specific Living Learning Community organized student leaders and affiliated alumni. Most Program Houses include all class years and some are housed within larger residential communities. Our unique program houses are listed below:

• Akwe:kon
• Ecology House
• Equity & Engagement Living-Learning Community- part of a group of upper-level halls on Southwest campus,
• Holland International Living Center
• Just about Music (JAM)
• Language House- housed within Toni Morrison Hall (second-year community)
• Latino Living Center
• Loving House (LGBTQ+ focus)- housed within Mews Hall (first-year community)
• Multicultural Living-Learning Unit (MCLLU):
• Risley Residential College
• Ujamaa Residential College
• Veteran's House- part of a group of upper-level halls

Applications:

We are currently seeking resumes and determining interest for our entire residential community - we anticipate multiple hires will be made. We have one known position for immediate hire and one known opening for July start. There may be additional as we move through our process.

If interested in joining are transformational team, please apply with your resume and cover letter indicating start date you are applying for and any student populations or program houses you are particularly interested in. An indication of interest does not preclude being considered for any opening we may have.Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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