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About Fordham:

Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering an exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 16,000 students in its nine colleges and schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in West Harrison, N.Y., the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre in the United Kingdom.

The University offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts; retirement plans; life insurance; short and long-term disability; employee assistance program ( EAP ); tuition remission; and generous time off.

Successful candidates should have a knowledge of and commitment to the goals of Jesuit Education.

Department: Residential Life RH

Position Summary:

The Assistant Director of Residential Life for Summer and Integrated Learning Communities leads Student Life at Rose Hill’s campus-wide effort to integrate the academic, mission and ministry, and student life enterprises across 7 integrated learning communities (ILCs) and one new residential summer program for high school students.

The Assistant Director reports to the Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Residential Life at Rose Hill and coordinates closely with colleagues in the Division of Students Affairs with roles in integrated learning.

Essential Functions:

• Designs, builds, leads, evaluates, and continuously improves Fordham’s pilot summer pre-college program for high school students, launching June 2023;

• Works closely with the Dean of Students, the Assistant Dean of Students/Director of Residential Life and other colleagues overseeing and participating in the pre-college program;

• Leads and trains a team of 3 full time Resident Directors for which the high school summer pipeline program is a summer assignment and who in turn recruit, train, and lead the 10 undergraduate program counselors;

• Working with the Residential Life and Student Life staff, develops summer pre-college student handbook and policies, including reporting procedures specific to the pre-college population;

• Coordinates contact on non-academic program elements with parents and potential students during the recruitment and marketing process beginning November 2023;

• Coordinates with Admissions, Summer Session, and other staff in developing and updating the summer residential program website;

• Serves as liaison to Admissions, Summer Session, and other areas contributing to the Summer Pipeline program;

• Oversees the several Integrated Learning Communities ranging from first year hall programs to specialized upper-class programs, assessing and evaluating each program against learning outcomes with academic and mission integration-based partners and sharing outcomes data with the Assistant Dean/Director, Dean of Students, and partners on an ongoing basis;

• Serves as liaison to the colleges and mission integration for Integrated Learning Communities;

• Coordinates contact and periodic meetings and activities of supervisory groups for each ILC composed of colleagues with roles in each community;

• Develops and continuously updates and improves published documents communicating and marketing the integrated learning communities (ILCs) and residential summer program for high school students;

• Participates in on-call duty rotation to support the Resident Director on Duty along with other assistant directors;

• Serves as part of an 18-person Residential Life professional staff supporting major office processes led by the Assistant Dean such as opening, closing, staff selection and Training as well as large-scale and campus-wide University events and major programs.

• Must be on-campus during the summer time frame of the Summer Leadership program.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree

• Education and experience should be related to position responsibilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Secondary or Higher Education and/or Student Personnel Administration, Counseling or related area.

Minimum Salary: $58,000 (plus room and board)

Maximum Salary: $62,000 (plus room and board)