Assistant Director Residence Life-Engagement and Assessment

Provides leadership for residential learning and engagement initiatives by coordinating residential learning communities and supporting learning community staff. Oversees housing assessment and recruitment.

• Leads the department's residential learning community framework, overseeing its vision, structure, assessment, and continuous improvement.
• Researches emerging trends and best practices to ensure program effectiveness and relevance.
• Directs implementation across residential communities, establishes expectations for stakeholder engagement, training, professional development, and evaluation, and provides input on staff selection.
• Collaborates with campus partners to support student recruitment and retention initiatives and the student group, which is responsible for provides housing tours during major university recruitment events.
• Oversees academic support and learning initiatives within residential communities, developing partnerships and programs that promote student success.
• Collaborates with staff and campus partners to implement academic resources and services across residential communities.
• Serves as the department's primary resource for internal marketing and communications, including resident, staff, and stakeholder messaging. Partners with divisional marketing and communications staff on external communications, publications, web content, social media, and other outreach initiatives.
• Serves as the department's primary liaison for assessment initiatives, ensuring departmental priorities are reflected in division-wide surveys and data collection efforts. Interprets and communicates assessment findings to leadership and staff and facilitates data-informed decision-making, planning, and continuous improvement.
• Serves as a member of the leadership team, participates in on-call duty rotations, and advises departmental committee chairs.
• Hires, trains, evaluates and supervises student employees.

Minimum qualifications based upon job documentation and industry best practices. Any current employees not meeting these qualifications will be grandfathered until they move to a different job.

• Master's degree in related field from an accredited institution.

• Three years' relevant experience.
• Supervisory experience.
• Experience working in Residence Life.
• Experience with residential living learning communities and assessments.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills.
• Formal training and experience in crisis intervention and mental health emergency response.

• Ability to work irregular shifts and extended hours, including weekend and holiday rotation. On call duties.
• Ability to travel.

Light work with some physical demands such as continuously lifting or moving materials less than 25 pounds but rarely moving more than 25 to 50 pounds.

Work is generally performed in a well-lit, temperature-controlled indoor environment with occasional exposure to the outdoors or any number of elements.

Revised: 2026-10-08