Assistant Director of Residential Education

Assistant Director Of Residential Education

The Assistant Director of Residential Education advances Berea College's Eight Great Commitments, particularly the Seventh, by supporting a residential community grounded in wellness, learning, sustainability, high personal standards, and care for others, in alignment with the Student Affairs mission. In consultation with the Director of Residential Education, the Assistant Director of Residential Education is responsible for the development and support of the Hall Directors and residential spaces. Emphasis is placed on contributing to the advancement of the Residential Education vision, mission, and goals. This position serves as a strategic educator, training and supervising staff members in supporting hall management, oversight of camps policy, and community support. The Assistant Director of Residential Education must be an individual that is highly motivated and enthusiastic about actively contributing to the success of Berea College students.

Key responsibilities include creating an academic environment conducive to living-learning and scholarly pursuits, establishing and maintaining positive relationships and lines of communication with campus partners, overseeing Hall Directors through weekly meetings, regular communication, routine training, and retreats, supervising employees as designated by the Director of Residential Education, overseeing training and development strategies for Residential Education professional and student staff, supporting administrative responsibilities for Residential Education operations, participating in the Student Affairs on-call rotation, serving as an Administrative Hearing Officer, assisting in the development of residential policy, curriculum, student and staff manuals, educational materials, training programs, and procedures for the department of Residential Education, overseeing marketing, web content, communication, resident contracts, manuals, student housing self-service portal, and Residential Living Guide on behalf of the office of Residential Education, maintaining accountability for funds allocated by the Director of Residential Education for hall programming, staff appreciation, student labor, and office supplies, and other duties as assigned by the Director of Residential Education.

Education required to ensure success in this position includes a Master's degree in Education, College Student Personnel, Counseling, Human Development, or related field. Experience required includes 35 years of professional experience in Student Affairs or Residence Life or a related functional area, demonstrated experience supporting, training, and educating diverse populations, proven supervisory experience, including staff support, problem-solving, and conflict resolution, and ability to adapt to change and assume varied responsibilities in a dynamic environment. Special skills, knowledge, and abilities include knowledge of professional standards, best practices, and emerging trends in Residence Life and Housing, ability to supervise, mentor, and develop professional and student staff, capacity to build collaborative relationships and communicate effectively with a diverse campus community, ability to oversee complex functional areas, including staff-led operations, budgeting, and project management, experience providing leadership in student conduct processes, crisis response, and emergency situations, exercising sound judgment and accountability, and capacity to lead through change by guiding staff through evolving policies, systems, and technologies in alignment with institutional priorities. License, certification, or registration necessary includes a valid driver's license. Physical requirements include visual acuity to perform activities such as inspections or preparing and analyzing data and figures, and the ability to navigate campus, as well as sit, or stand for extended periods of time. Environmental conditions include an office environment. Ability to operate the following vehicles or equipment includes standard office equipment and the ability to operate a motor vehicle.

Berea College is nationally recognized as the first coeducational and interracial college in the South. Berea has a longstanding commitment to interracial education and is one of the most racially diverse private liberal arts colleges in the United States. With an emphasis on service to Appalachia and beyond, Berea enrolls more than 1,500 students from 44 states and U.S. territories and more than 60 countries. Berea College admits students who are unable to afford tuition and provides every enrolled student with a fully funded degree that covers 100% of tuition, housing, food, supplies, and fees without loans, for all four years. Berea's students excel in the College's supportive yet demanding academic environment, and most are the first in their families to attend college. As one of only 10 federally recognized Work Colleges, all Berea students work 10-12 hours weekly in various positions across campus, building professional skills in a real-world learning environment. Berea College is also the only institution in Kentucky to receive the 5-Star Rating from Money Magazine, 2026.

Berea College offers a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees and their families including health care, dental, vision, retirement, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability and an Employee Assistance Program. The benefit package also includes access to the Child Development Laboratory for children of College Staff, ages 6 weeks to 6 years, Seabury Center Membership, Staff Development Funds and Tuition Reimbursement. Eligible staff employees also receive paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave. Part-time employees who work an average of twenty-four hours per week over the course of a year, receive benefits on a pro-rated basis. To learn more details, visit our benefits page at https://www.berea.edu/human-resources/employee-benefits. Berea College strives to be a place where people with various Christian interpretations, different religious traditions, and no religious traditions work together in support of Berea's Great Commitments. Over the past century, various leaders of the College have applied the College's inclusive scriptural foundation and spirit to their expanding world and welcomed those whose beliefs were consistent with the Christian gospel of impartial love. Therefore, Berea College today affirms its inclusive Christian tradition even as it respects the traditions of Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus, as well as other faiths, and those holding no religious beliefs. We strive not to ignore our differences, but rather seek to understand each other honestly and respectfully, and together create a climate where anyone can openly discuss what they believe without fear of sanction. To that end, all persons who are willing to share in the spirit and the work of the Great Commitments as shaped by its preamble are welcome to study, to teach, and to work at Berea. In support of Berea College's great commitments, staff and faculty serve as labor supervisors. Our fourth great commitment, The Dignity of Labor, promotes learning and serving in community through the student Labor Program, honoring the dignity and utility of all work, mental and manual, and taking pride in work well done. Student Labor Supervision includes scheduling, assigning, and approving student work, developing students' workplace acumen, and providing tangible work experience.