Graduate Hall Directors: Job Description
General Description
Under the supervision of the Associate Director, serve as the primary Residential Life Staff person in providing supervisory, programming and counseling leadership for Resident Assistants (RAs) and students in the residence halls. Serve as the emergency on-call person during evenings, weekends and holidays. This is an academic year live-in position (with varying hours depending on the time of year) and requires both day and evening responsibilities and time commitments.
Examples of Responsibilities (responsibilities differ across halls)
- Supervision, development and evaluation of an RA staff. Provide consistent evaluation of the staff through on–going informal feedback and annual formal performance evaluation.
- Supervise the RA staff with regard to all aspects of their programming requirements. Manage the programming budget for the staff.
- Facilitate weekly staff meetings for an RA staff.
- Attend weekly staff meetings and scheduled departmental meetings during regular business hours.
- Provide counseling, referrals and follow-up for student issues and concerns.
- Maintain at least 20 work hours per week (15 of which must be 9am-5pm). Hours can be split among four days, and should be posted and consistently maintained each semester.
- Serve as the back-up staff person (for the RAs) as part of a campus-wide rotation between the hours of 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. weeknights, 24 hours on weekends, holidays and vacation periods (such as fall break, Thanksgiving, winter break, spring break). When on duty, you must be in the residence hall or carrying the cell phone within a specified radius in order to respond to any medical or psychological emergencies, fire, security matter, desk issue and other student concerns.
- Serve on a departmental committee (e.g. RA & GHD Selection, RA & GHD Training)
- Attend and participate in staff training during both day and evening hours. In addition, actively participate in the August and January training program for RAs, as well as monthly in-services.
- Participate in and assist with the selection of all staff, including Associate Directors, Graduate Hall Directors, Resident Assistants, and Special Interest Housing groups.
- Be familiar with the rules and regulations of the college and the residence halls as a means to support, interpret and enforce these rules and regulations.
- Report any maintenance, safety and security incidents and execute specific administrative duties as designated by the Director of Residential Life and Housing or Associate Director.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Prior residential life experience preferred.
- Enrollment in a graduate program in close proximity to Barnard College, not to exceed 16 points per semester (including internship credits).
- Ability to exercise initiative and sound judgment, and to make decisions as appropriate.
- Knowledge of principles associated with residential community development programs.
- Strong interpersonal, communication and leadership skills.
- Ability to work with a diverse student and staff population.
- Propensity to work independently and interdependently.
- Manage multiple projects and responsibilities.
- Graduate Hall Directors may not work during their assigned duty hours.
- Flexible daytime and evening schedule.
