Resident Director Position Description
As staff members within the Office of Residence Life, Resident Directors perform the following duties:
- Serve as the primary professional staff member in a residence hall/apartment complex
with occupancy between 28 and 338 students
- Supervise 2-10 Resident Assistants and up to 5 other student staff members
- Provide guidance and support to all staff and student leaders regarding programming
efforts in hall and across campus
- Serve as a University Conduct Officer, adjudicating Student Code of Conduct and Residence
Hall policy violations
- Coordinate in-hall duty and desk schedules
- Perform all necessary administrative functions to ensure effective and efficient operation
of the hall or community
- Serve as the advisor to the Hall Government and any of its sub-committees
- Coordinate weekly staff meetings and individual one-on-one staff meetings
- Participate in a campus wide on-call system
- Develop and implement continual student staff training and development
- Serve on various department committees (ex: RD and RA training, RD and RA recruitment,
Professional Development, Appreciation and Recognition)
- Opportunity to represent the department and university at the regional and national
level by conference attendance and program presentation
- Opportunity to work on an assigned special project (student organization advising,
administration, student development initiatives, housing operations, etc.)
- Other duties as assigned