Join the ORL Staff as a Residence Director
Hello and welcome!
We're thrilled that you're exploring the ORL Residence Director (RD) Recruitment web site. This is a great way to collect information on becoming a professional staff member at IWU.
Please take some time to look over the detailed materials linked to this page. You will find complete position descriptions for the Residence Director positions and responsibilities, as well as links to the Office of Residential Life Home Page and our recruitment calendar.
The mission of the Office of Residential Life:
Facilitating enjoyable, sustainable and inclusive communities that support and enhance students' academic achievement and personal development.
Core values of the Office of Residential Life:
Diversity, sustainability, fun, learning and warmth.
Top Ten Reasons to be an RD at Illinois Wesleyan University
- Wellness classes and resources offered just for faculty and staff (http://www.iwu.edu/~wellness/)
- Free counseling sessions via the EAP
- Regular infusions of ORL appare
- Location location location!!! Three cities (Peoria, Springfield, Urbana-Champaign) over 100,000 people less than an hour's drive away; Chicago is just two hours northeast
- A department and institution committed to supporting you and your life partner with housing, a meal plan, institutional benefits including insurance, and a Shirk Center pass. Illinois State is just a mile away...and if you have aspirations to continue your education, so are your classes (click here for ISU grad school information) and social life
- Great opportunities to meet and work with IWU's Deans and Directors
- "Other duties as assigned"
- Flexible technology allows you to work efficiently in your hall office, the central office or even hundreds of miles away at a conference
- Renovated and furnished apartments
- Professional Development funds which allow you to continue learning in our field
Residence Director Information
Graduate Residence Directors (GRDs) are students enrolled in a graduate program at Illinois State University who hold an assistantship at Illinois Wesleyan as a Residence Director. GRDs have a responsibility to translate the philosophy of the IWU residence hall program into a practical and meaningful set of services, activities and programs for students. In addition to counseling residents concerning personal and/or academic concerns, GRDs are responsible for promoting hall programs and activities and overseeing most aspects of the residence hall. In this process, GRDs promote the development of skills for leadership, decision-making, conflict resolution, fiscal management, problem solving and self-discipline
Residence Directors (RDs), working to meet student needs, are integral members of the Student Affairs team. RDs are young professionals interested in the development of college students. Within the residence halls, their major responsibility is to translate the philosophy of the IWU residence hall program into a practical and meaningful set of services, activities and programs for students. In addition to counseling residents concerning personal and/or academic concerns, RDs are responsible for promoting hall programs and activities, advising hall governments and managing all aspects of residence hall life. In this process, RDs promote the development of skills for leadership, decision making, conflict resolution, fiscal management, problem solving and self-discipline. RDs live in apartments in the upper division residence halls. There are three RDs on staff.
Area Directors serve as an RD in the hall where they live, and supervise a half-time Graduate Residence Director in an additional facility. The GRD completes most of the responsibilities of the RD position within their building, but some higher-level responsibilities, such as judicial meetings and terminations, fall to the Area Director. Area Directors and GRDs live in apartments in the first-year residence halls. There are two Area Directors and two Graduate Residence Directors on staff.
Graduate Residence Directors, Residence Directors, Area Directors and are all referred to as RDs on our campus, and staff in the three positions make up the Residential Life Professional Staff along with the Director and Associate Directors of Residential Life.
RDs are busy people . This list shows the commitments they keep on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
Go ahead and ask! We're OPEN...
Some questions about institutions are harder to ask than others, and candidates may be unsure about how to raise a topic that may seem "too much, too soon." In an attempt to be open and honest about our institution's strengths and challenges, our professional staff members have authored a series of lifestyle documents as a gesture of willingness to provide complete answers to any questions you may have about IWU. We respect your search process and hope that you will accept these perspective pieces in the spirit in which they are intended. Have more questions? Then ask. On our campus, you're permitted!
Information for:
**Also see Live-In Partner Policy and Partner Expectations
IWU Residence Director Recruitment Calendar
For more information on the Illinois State University GRAD program please visit:
http://www.studentaffairs.ilstu.edu/see_yourself/grad_days.shtml
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Our mission is facilitating enjoyable, sustainable and inclusive communities that support and enhance students' academic achievement and personal development.