Assistant Director, Living-Learning Programs

Founded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,445 full-time undergraduates and 5,125 graduate and professional students. Ranked 35 among national universities, Boston College has 878 full-time and 1,201 FTE faculty, 2,750 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.2 billion, and an endowment in excess of $2.8 billion.

About Boston College and the Office of Residential Life

Boston College is a Division One university with approximately 9,100 undergraduate students (7,600 residential), located on 118 acres in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, a beautiful suburb seven miles from the center of Boston. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1863, Boston College has strong Jesuit Catholic educational values, which are used as a foundation for our work with and care for students.

The mission of the Office of Residential Life is to create a respectful, healthy, and safe living community for our residents. We are committed to integrating the Ignatian tradition into the formation of each student by connecting their intellectual, ethical, religious, and spiritual lives through a myriad of programs and services. Our role in this formational development is achieved by promoting the academic mission, encouraging responsible and ethical behaviors, engaging residents in conversations regarding diversity, and creating safe, well-managed learning environments where students can seek the greater good.

Under the leadership of the Associate Vice President and Director of Residential Education and Director of Operations, the department consists of 40 professional staff members, 29 graduate positions, 192 RAs, and 20 additional student employees.

Basic Function and Responsibility

The Assistant Director (AD) of Residential Leadership and Learning provides oversight for student leadership and learning focused programming within Residential Life. Specifically, they are responsible for all operations regarding the Residence Hall Association (RHA), Living Learning Communities (LLCs) and assessment of learning initiatives in the halls associated with the community engagement model and Campus Labs Engage. The AD, in conjunction with the Director of Residential Education, collaborates and strategizes with the residential life staff as well as faculty and campus partners to provide formational experiences for residents. The AD directly oversees areas where the goal is the development of strong and welcoming residential communities with a focus on learning and leadership.

The AD directly supervises graduate staff responsible for leadership, learning, and formation based activities and indirectly advises Resident Directors working with RHA and LLCs. The AD should have a strong commitment to and understanding of the university's mission regarding the formation of students. They should have proven excellence in working directly with students and in developing successful and meaningful programs. It is expected that this position maintains regular office hours Monday through Friday, as well as periodic work on nights and weekends for essential responsibilities throughout the year. The Assistant Director additionally serves in the departmental on-call rotation as a Senior Administrator on Call (SAOC).

Primary Areas of Responsibility

• Day to day oversight of and long term planning for eight Living-Learning Communities, including development of new programs, recruitment of students, coordination of housing assignments for returning students, and collaboration with faculty and administrators from partner offices in program design and delivery.

• Oversight of the leadership initiatives, training, and advising of the Residence Hall Association including development and oversight of leadership initiatives, care package distribution (revenue generating initiative), campus wide programming, late night programming, and community service events.

• Direct supervision of the Residence Hall Association Graduate Assistant and Living Learning Communities Graduate Assistant. Functional supervision of (3) professional staff in their role as advisors to the RHA executive board, Residence Hall Councils, and the Sophomore Leadership Council.

• Coordinate assessment of all learning initiatives in the halls associated with the community engagement model and serve as departmental administrator for the Campus Labs Engage platform.

• Responsibility for RHA and LLCS budgets, in conjunction with multiple professional and graduate staff who incur expenses related to their specific communities and programs.

• Participate in the university on-call crisis response duty rotation.