"Graduate Assistant - Residence Hall Director - Fall 2026"

Graduate Assistant - Residence Hall Director - Fall 2026

Company: University of Central Missouri

Job Location: Warrensburg, Missouri

Category: Residence Life and Housing

Type: Adjunct/Part-Time

Salary: $550.00 Semi-Monthly

Location: UCMO - Warrensburg, MO

Job Type: Graduate Assistant

Job Number: G97990

Division: Residence Life Administration

Description

UNIVERSITY HOUSING MISSION STATEMENT

University Housing provides residential experiences that empower students to succeed, engage with others, embrace diversity, and develop life skills.

HOUSING STUDENT OUTCOMES

University Housing strives to create an on-campus living experience that assists residents in developing skills and abilities to accomplish the following:

• Be successful: Students will learn and develop skills to achieve success with their academics, job, finances, and their professional goals. Students will learn skills and abilities to contribute to their learning and be active participants in their personal growth and development.
• Be engaged and connected with others and the community: Students will feel a sense of belonging and connection to the UCM and local community. Students will gain skills to make meaningful connections to others and gain an acceptance and understanding of others.
• Embrace our diverse world and the importance of inclusion of all people: Students will learn and develop skills to enhance their lives through a broader understanding of relationships with others, society, and the world. Students will learn skills to demonstrate their role in an inclusive and caring community.
• Develop life skills and become self-aware: Students will learn and develop skills to achieve personal responsibility for living in a community, solving one's problems, accepting personal role in challenges, failures, and successes, living a healthy lifestyle, and other life skills.

Examples of Duties

The Residence Hall Director provides leadership and direction to all students and staff living in the residence hall/apartments. Additionally, they are responsible for student staff supervision, training and development, outreach and counseling of residence hall students and problem solving within the hall. Reporting directly to the Assistant Director. The Residence Hall Director is an essential member of the leadership team in the Office of University Housing. This is a required live-in Residence Hall position.

STAFF DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Supervises daily performances of the undergraduate staff members. Participates in staff recruitment, selection, training, and evaluation. Attends and participates in all required departmental staff meetings and trainings.
2. Provides direction and information to staff in the following areas: programs, activities, counseling, administration, policy enforcement, and personal conduct.
3. Develops and conducts staff training sessions.
4. Prepares and supervises undergraduate staff duty/call schedules.
5. Supervises Community Advisor staff which includes acknowledgment of positive contributions as well as confrontation when staff behavior is inappropriate.

STUDENT DEVELOPMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Facilitates the development of an environment which stimulates student responsibility and accountability within the residence hall system.
2. Oversees, advises, and assists in the planning of programs with students and staff in the residence hall. Such programs must consider the developmental needs of students, the coordination with classroom learning, and the broad educational emphasis.
3. Consults and advises students on an individual and small group basis.
4. Refer students to appropriate resources or helping agencies.
5. Facilitates weekly staff and individual meetings.
6. Assists in establishing a positive working relationship between the residence hall staff and the Housing leadership area/s.
7. Acts as a judicial hearing officer for policy violations in the assigned hall. Handles referrals for policy violations, clarifies and interprets University and residence hall policies for students and staff; recommends appropriate sanctions for various offenses; follows-up on all judicial matters; and provides timely judicial communications with students and staff.
8. Eat meals in the dining halls to interact with residents and help with monitoring the dining hall experience.

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Reports to the Assistant Director of Residence Life.
2. Communicates regularly with dining hall staff, office personnel, and other University officials.
3. Monitors the physical upkeep and maintenance of the residence halls through job orders and communication with Assistant Director.
4. Coordinates the accurate and timely completion of paperwork associated with room changes, check-in/check-out, etc.
5. Serve as on call duty person for all housing facilities.
6. Remains on campus during certain weekends: closed weekends, opening/closing weekends, and specified weekends as designated by the Office of University Housing. Also, with one-half of the area leadership must remain on campus each weekend. Limited nights away (not in campus apartment) during each semester.
7. Maintains regularly scheduled office hours each week.
8. Performs special duties requested by the Assistant Director and the Office of University Housing (i.e. committee work reports, etc.).
9. Maintains a close working relationship with the support staff.
10. Specific work tasks as describe in Housing google site and other procedures are to be completely in timely and thorough manner.

Typical Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's Degree Required
• Currently admitted to a UCM graduate degree program
• 3.0 or higher graduate level GPA if previous graduate level courses have been taken
• 2.7 or higher undergraduate level GPA if no previous graduate level courses have been taken

Experience

• Must be able to respond to emergency situations quickly.
• Mobility throughout the housing system is essential.

Supplemental Information

GA Type: Student Affairs

GA Hour Expectations: 20 hours a week

Start Date of Position: 08/10/2026

End Date of Position: 12/11/2026

Total Stipend for Semester: $4,950

Working Days & Hours: Monday - Friday hours are irregular and some weekend hours are required, it is GA position so works around GA class schedule.

Scholarship: Students filling a Graduate Assistantship (GA) position are eligible to receive a graduate tuition waiver, a graduate non-resident tuition waiver (if applicable), and a graduate mandatory fees waiver. The scholarships are in the form of a waiver and the funds are not deposited into the student's personal account. Instead, the student's bill is reduced by the amount of the scholarship awarded. If the maximum amount of the scholarship is not used, the remainder is not paid to the student in any form and unused scholarship money cannot be carried over to another semester. The scholarship is applied to graduate level courses only; courses taken for undergraduate credit are not eligible to be covered by the GA scholarship. The non-resident fee scholarship only applies to classes taken on the UCM Warrensburg campus. The maximum scholarship amounts are based on the size of assistantship held. For a full (20-hour per week) assistantship, the scholarship covers tuition costs and mandatory fees up to 12 credit hours of graduate coursework per semester. Graduate assistantship positions less than full will be prorated accordingly.

Special Instructions:

• Full-time staff & 12-month faculty benefits-eligible position: Benefits include competitive salary; health, dental, vision, life insurance, AD & D, long-term disability; 3 weeks paid vacation per year; 3 weeks of accrued sick leave per year; 13 paid holidays; retirement; and generous education assistance for an employee, spouse and dependent children taking classes at UCM.
• 9-month faculty benefits-eligible position: Benefits include competitive salary; health, dental, vision, life insurance, AD & D, long-term disability; 3 weeks of accrued sick leave per year; 13 paid holidays; retirement; and generous education assistance for an employee, spouse and dependent children taking classes at UCM.
• Part-time benefits-eligible positions: Benefits include generous education assistance for the employee.
• Temporary, adjunct, student employment, or graduate assistant positions: Benefits are not included.

Completed UCM online application for employment required. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

A review will begin immediately and continue until filled unless indicated otherwise.

NOTE: A background check is required for the selected candidate of all staff, faculty, adjunct, and temporary positions and any job offer is contingent on the results of this check. Student employees and graduate assistants do not require a background check to be conducted prior to employment.

The University of Central Missouri is an Equal Opportunity Employer.