Employment based visa sponsorship will NOT be considered for this position.
Position Number: 106060
Classification Title: Coordinator I
Working Title: Residence Life Coordinator
Department: Housing Residence Life
FLSA Status: Exempt
Salary Range: $47,267
Pay Basis: Annually
The Residence Life Coordinator is responsible for directing the daily operation of a residential living area (multiple residence halls and/or campus apartments). The essential functions of the position include community building, programming/engagement, crisis intervention, and managing student conduct. This position participates in a team process for selecting and training graduate Hall Directors and student staff. They supervise a graduate Hall Director and undergraduate student staff members (Resident Assistants and Student Desk Assistants). They coordinate living-learning communities, serve on standing committees, and help execute a leadership model and residential curriculum within the halls and apartments. In addition, the Coordinator is responsible for the physical management of the facilities in their area and works closely with the maintenance and custodial staff. This is a year-round position and during the summer, serves the department in working with either Camps and Conferences, Orientation, or Summer Student Housing. This position has a live on requirement and provides support and assistance to students through serving in a campus wide duty rotation. While this position does have work autonomy, the Residence Life Coordinator is directly supervised and works in collaboration with the Assistant Director of Residence Life.
Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate area of specialization. Four years of direct experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
Experience building residential communities through leadership, student engagement, and professional communication. The successful candidate will have experience responding to student crises, supervising and developing staff, implementing a residential curriculum and outreach initiatives, and coordinating residence hall operations within a university housing environment.
Master's Degree (or higher) in higher education, student affairs, counseling, social work, or a related field. Multiple years experience building residential communities through leadership, student engagement, and professional communication. Has extensive experience responding to multiple types of student crises, supervising and developing staff, creating or modifying a residential curriculum and outreach initiatives, and coordinating residence hall operations within a university housing environment. Has multiple years experience supervising graduate and undergraduate students.
- 25% - Program Direction & Development: Direct the operations of the area on a day-to-day basis. - (Essential)
- 20% - Supervision: Directly supervise 1-2 graduate students and 14-18 undergraduate Resident Assistants. Indirectly supervise Student Desk Assistants. - (Essential)
- 15% - Public Contact: Have daily contact and routine follow-up with students, faculty, staff, and parents. During Summer Conferences, also interact with university and non-university affiliated groups. - (Essential)
- 15% - Serve and lead on departmental and potentially division/university level committees, with the ability to work in areas such as staff recruitment, training, assessment, programming, advising, or other needed areas. - (Essential)
- 10% - Policymaking and/or Interpretation: Interpret and implement university and housing policy to staff, students, and guests. Serve as an Educational Conference Officer for the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities to guide students through the conduct process. In review of operating procedures, recommend new policies and policy changes to the Assistant Director. - (Essential)
- 5% - Confidential: Responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of files for all students in housing which are protected by law. - (Essential)
- 5% - Monetary Responsibility: Manage assigned area and project budgets - (Essential)
- 5% - Other duties as assigned. - (Essential)
- Physical Requirements: Occasional and/or light lifting required. Limited exposure to elements such as heat, cold, noise, dust, dirt, chemicals, etc., but none to the point of being disagreeable. May involve minor safety hazards where likely results would be cuts, bruises, etc.
- Impact of Deadlines: Externally imposed deadlines set and revised beyond one’s control. Interruptions influence priorities. Difficult to anticipate nature or volume of work with certainty beyond a few days.
- Standing: Occasionally
- Walking: Occasionally
- Sitting: Occasionally
- Reaching with hands and arms: Frequently
- Climbing or balancing: Occasionally
- Stooping: Occasionally
- Use of hands to handle objects: Daily
- Lifting up to 10lbs: Daily
- Lifting up to 25lbs: Daily
- Lifting over 25lbs: Occasionally
- Talking as express or exchange of ideas verbally: Daily
- Hearing as perceive sound by ear: Daily
- Vision as distinguish colors & depth: Daily
Special Requirements or Considerations of the Job:
- This position requires a criminal background screening.
- This position requires fingerprinting.
- This position is eligible for veterans’ preference.
Special Instructions to Applicants: Candidates must apply online through the University of West Florida website: https://careers.uwf.edu.
Applicants are required to attach a resume, cover letter and contact information for three references.
An opportunity to upload these documents will be provided during the application process. For assistance, please contact Human Resources at 850.474.2694 or email [email protected].
This position allows eligible veterans and their spouses to claim Veterans’ Preference pursuant to Section 295.07, F.S.; applicants claiming preference are responsible for providing required documentation on or before the posting deadline date as such documentation is required for eligibility determination. Supporting documentation, in addition to the DD214, may be required based on eligibility criteria. For information on obtaining a DD214, visit http://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/ or call 1.866.272.6272.
At the conclusion of this search, if a non-preference eligible applicant is appointed to the position and you are a preference-eligible applicant and believe that you were not afforded employment preference in accordance with applicable Florida law and regulation, a written complaint requesting an investigation may be submitted to the Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Division of Benefits and Assistance, 9500 Bay Pines Blvd., Room 214, St. Petersburg, Florida 33708. Such a complaint should be filed within 60 calendar days from the date that the notice the position has been filled is received by the applicant pursuant to Sections 120.569 and 120.57, F.S.
Prior to filing a complaint, it is the responsibility of the preference-eligible applicant to contact the designated Human Resources or other contact person at least one time after 45 days have passed from the final date for submitting an application or the interview date, whichever is later in time, if the applicant has not received notice of a hiring decision.
Number of Vacancies: 1
Work Hours: 8am to 5pm M-F (some evenings & weekends)
FTE: 1.0
Closing Date: 08/14/2026
