Associate Director, Residence Education

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in College Student Personnel, Higher Education/Administration, Counseling, or related field.
• A minimum of 5 years progressive, post-masters experience in a university housing or residential life environment.
• Experience (3 or more years) supervising full time, master’s level housing staff with ability to apply practices, and tools to developing and improving individual, team, and organizational performance.
• Exceptional administrative skills, including a proven ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously to establish priorities, accomplish goals and meet deadlines.
• Excellent problem solving skills, including experience analyzing and resolving conflict, successfully navigating group dynamics, and effectively building teams.
• Knowledge of crisis management concepts and techniques; ability to predict, avert, mitigate, and recover from an event that has or could have a severely negative impact on the institution. Experience serving in an on-call duty rotation.
• Strong record of building teams and partnerships with colleagues and key campus stakeholder groups.
• Excellent written and oral communication, public speaking and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to developing welcoming communities through dialogues around difference.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Experience managing and leading full-time staff recruitment.
• Previous experience supervising mid-level staff.
• Experience working with residential curriculum models, academic curriculum development, or other student outcome based curricular planning.
• Experience working with Maxient conduct software.
• Experience working with StarRez housing occupancy software.

Application Details:

• In order to be considered, applicants must upload a resume and cover letter and mark them as a “Relevant File” to the submission.

Job openings are posted for a minimum of 14 calendar days and may be removed from posting and filled any time after the original posting period has ended.  Successful candidates will be required to self-disclose any conviction history and will be subject to a criminal background check. Up to 5 professional references will be requested at a later step in the recruitment process. For questions or additional information, please contact alaysia-mcatee@uiowa.edu

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