Residence Life Hall Director
Office/Department: Residence Life
Supervisor: Hugh Brown
Number of positions: 8
Mission Statement: The Office of Residence Life is committed to designing and maintaining a caring environment that encourages academic success, personal growth, and responsibility to one’s community.
Functional areas included in this office/department: Business Operations, Housing Services, Student Learning Initiatives, Residence Life Community Development
Students who participate in this experience will gain understanding of student affairs as a profession and the influence student affairs has on contemporary higher education through the following tasks and activities:
- Supervision/development of student staff team
- Staff training: planning and implementation
- Advising student groups/organizations
- Behavior management/discipline follow up with residents
- Teambuilding: planning and implementation
- Participation in departmental committees and projects
- Writing and presenting performance evaluations
- Collaborative projects with various university departments
- Attendance at departmental and divisional meetings
- Community development theory to practice
- Student development theory to practice
- Managing change
- Communication within an organization
- Writing goals, learning outcomes, and action plans
- Use of technology and housing specific databases
- Opportunity to co-teach a for-credit RA Training Course, Psyc100
Students who participate in this experience will be exposed to the purposeful application of the following student development, career development, counseling and/or organizational theories:
- Psychosocial Developmental Theories: (Chickering, Erikson)
- Cognitive Developmental Theories: (Perry, Kolhberg, Belenky, Gilligan)
- Typology: (Jung, Myers-Briggs)
- Counseling Theories: (Reality Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy)
- Career Development Theories: (Super, Holland)
- Identity Development Theories: (Racial, White, Minority, Sexual, Gender, Ability, Religious, Social Class, Multiple)
Students assigned to this site will be able to participate in the following assessment and/or evaluation projects:
- Semi-annual perception study analysis and action plan
- Program/event surveying/evaluation
- Periodic research projects
- Self-evaluation and staff-evaluation each semester
Students who participate in this experience will be evaluated and provided on-going feedback in the following ways:
- Weekly one on one consultation meetings with direct supervisor
- Written performance evaluation each December and April
Specific expectations of students assigned to this site include:
- Arrive late July/early August for pre-service training
- Stay late/return early for academic breaks/vacations
- Create and maintain a schedule designed to meet assistantship requirements
- Support the mission of Office of Residence Life, Student Affairs, and JMU
- Perform designated tasks in a timely, organized and professional manner
- Participate in staff selection process
- Manage hall housekeeping and maintenance issues/reports
- Manage/report hall occupancy and room changes
- Guide hall educational and social programming efforts
- Plan and facilitate weekly meetings
- Communicate consistently and honestly with supervisor
- Maintain a positive attitude about job responsibilities
- Work to be an effective team member
- Request assistance and support when approaching new situations
- Gain an understanding of residence hall issues, policies and procedures
- Live in assigned residence hall
