Residence Director

Position Summary

The oversight of Shiple Hall. Including but not limited to: RA supervisor, Conduct Hearting Officer, After Hours Duty response, community development.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Organize and facilitate regularly scheduled staff meetings, individual meetings with the director, individual meetings with staff members and Residence Life meetings.
• Provide leadership to an area staff in the achievement of the programmatic goals and objectives of that area with supervision of hall staff.
• Serve as a judicial hearing officer for Residence Life.
• Serve as on call staff for Residence Life on a rotation basis for nights, weekends, and holidays. Additionally, coordinate and support for emergencies and serious incidents.
• Assist with the overall departmental functions: Including office operations, staff selection and training and development, implementing and enforcing policies and procedures, recognition, and evaluation.
• Assist in the professional staff responsibilities of all residential openings and closings.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education - A college degree or four to eight years of work experience in a related field.
• Employment - Six months to two years (Equivalent combination of education and employment).

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

The ability to objectively problem solve, crisis response, and diplomatically help others solve problems. Regular interaction and support of first year students is required.

Physical Requirements

Job may require lifting light weight objects (1 to 10 pounds) with no repetitive bending or stooping. Occasionally lift average weight objects (1 to 10pounds).

Work Environment

Occasional exposure to objectionable conditions or variations such as those found in variable weather conditions or light industrial settings.

Salary/Pay Information

Commensurate with experience

Anticipated Schedule

Monday – Friday 8:30 am-5:00 pm, Some nights and weekends. The position does have on-call responsibilities.

Additional Information

This is not a traditional office job, but involves evening/weekend hours. Flexibility in hours will be needed.

Employee Benefits

At the University of Detroit Mercy we continually strive to provide a high-quality, comprehensive benefits package to our valued employees. We offer our employees the following:

• Medical -
  • Three health plans to choose from with a large national provider network
• Dental -
  • Option to purchase additional dental plan through Sun Life
  • Dental Care is available at the School of Dentistry to the employee, the employee's spouse or legally domiciled adult and dependents (dependents shall be as defined for Internal Revenue Service purposes).
  • The fee for such services shall be waived for the employee, the employee's spouse or legally domiciled adult and dependents, up to a cap of $3,000 per individual per calendar year. Beyond the $3,000 cap amount, employees will be responsible to pay 25% of any remaining fees for the balance of that year.
• Vision -
  • Option to purchase additional vision plan through Heritage
  • Vision benefits available at Detroit Mercy Eye Institute
  • $35 Comprehensive Eye Exam
  • Contact Lens Exam starting at $7o
  • 50% off Optical Frames
  • 25% off Sun Frames
  • 30% off Prescription Lenses
  • 20% off Prescription Contact Lenses
  • *Cannot be combined with insurance*
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account options
• Employee Assistance Program -
  • Provided to everyone in your household
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Life and AD&D -
  • One times base salary up to a hundred thousand dollars
• Option to purchase additional life insurance, accident insurance, and/or critical illness insurance
• Tuition Remission Benefit for you, your spouse, and children
• Retirement Plan -

Employees have a choice of the following:

Employees who contribute 3% shall receive an Employer contribution of 6%, employees who contribute 4% in the plan shall receive an Employer contribution of 8%.