Muhlenberg College is seeking two part-time graduate assistants to join its team. The Graduate Assistant serves as a member of a collaborative student affairs team in managing a residential living area and creating healthy living/learning communities among students in 1-2 traditional residence halls.
Requirements
- Supervise up to 10-15 Head RAs and RAs.
- Plan and facilitate weekly supervision meetings with HRAs, biweekly supervision meetings with RAs, and monthly HD staff meetings.
- Meet with students to address social and behavioral concerns.
- Follow up with students of concern and assist with referrals to campus partners.
- Educate and manage conflict resolution through restorative practices.
- Manage one to two residence hall facilities housing up to 400 students.
- Assist with the opening and closing of residence facilities for the academic year and breaks.
- Assist with the inventory process, conduct inspections, and assess common area damages.
- Conduct regular inspections of residential facilities, including bi-weekly walk-throughs of the area, management of room condition reports for area, and assessing area damages.
- Supervise and track area budgets and reimbursements.
- Coordinate the implementation of residential curriculum components.
- Assist with the recruitment and selection of HRAs and RAs.
- Attend and facilitate RA training sessions.
- Oversee the day to day operations of the RA resource room.
- Hold regularly scheduled office hours (20 hours per week Monday-Friday between 8:30am-5pm), including administrative tasks like email, phone calls, walk in appointments with students.
- Participate in weekly supervision meetings with the supervisor.
- Participate in weekly HRL staff meetings.
- Participate in Division of College Life meetings as requested.
- Participate in on-call rotation for residential population with professional staff members.
Benefits
- Part-time position with 20 hours per week, live-on, graduate opportunity.
- Ability to work flexible hours including nights and weekends.