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LAMSON HALL - Interim Assistant Dean

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Position summary

The Interim Assistant Dean is a Fall 2020 semester position. The interim provides assistance to the Dean, whose leadership directs and administers all elements of the university residence hall community, including strategic planning and the daily operation of a wide variety of responsibilities including staffing, programming, fiscal and facility management and resident nurture and accountability.

The Interrim Assistant Dean is responsible for contributing to the creation of a living environment in which college women flourish in the development of their spiritual, mental, social and physical qualities.

Qualifications summary




Must be a Seventh-day Adventist in good and regular standing.

Duties and responsibilities

Assists in the facilitation of an environment which stimulates student responsiblity, accountability and safety. Coordinates, develops and delivers presentations on a variety of topics. Participates in conduct processes for residents. Participates in assessment of and meeting the needs for support, advising, counseling and areas of crisis management. Participates in the development, interpretation, and dissemination of university and residence hall policies for students. Participates in pre-service and in-service training and other development training. Maintains a working relationship with staff and an open working relationship with administration, faculty, parents, alumni and other constituents.

Specific job description to be determined.

Supervisory responsibilities

The Interim Assistant Dean carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with Andrews University policies and applicable laws.

Responsibilities include assisting the dean with interviewing, hiring and training professional and student staff, job description preparations and assignments, scheduling, directing work, appraising performance and addressing complaints and resolving problems. 



Supervises and participates with staff in the nurturing and holding students accountable to expectations including substance abuse, overnight leave and curfew guidelines, co-curricular attendance, and other general citizenship areas.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and /or ability required: 



Skills in business administration, organization, conflict resolution, counseling, teaching, discipline, public speaking, group dynamics, leadership and youth ministry. The Interim Assistant Dean is expected to be a strong Christian role model and should be committed to personal spiritual growth. They should have knowledge of youth culture and youth challenges.



Excellent English language and communication skills are required to be able to effectively interface with a wide variety of individuals and entities on and off campus. These skills must include the ability to read, analyze and interpret, and the ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals. 



The person in this position must also be able to communicate well in both personal and public venues.  She is responsible for excellence in verbal communication and counseling, and in the public presentation of devotional and educational topics.



Basic mathematical skills are needed.



Superb abstract and concrete reasoning and problem solving skills are required to be able to make decisions that have a huge and deep impact on the mental, physical, social and spiritual welfare of residents and staff that are in the work environment. The must be able to prioritize huge amounts of responsibilities in a critical and timely fashion is an essential requirement.



Unusually fine reasoning ability is also required in dealing with a population, by sheer definition of their developmental tasks, that demands reasons and rationale for policies and services, and living with the awkward and conflicting needs for both autonomy and nurture.


Must be a Seventh-day Adventist in good and regular standing.

Technical competencies

Must have basic computer skills.

Interpersonal interactions

Must be comfortable interacting with students who may or may not have the same beliefs. Must be comfortable working with student and staff from all backgrounds.

Physical demands

The job often requires full use of all body senses and most limbs of the body for office work such as data entry, duplication, walking, climbing stairs, listening, and observing both body language and environmental factors.



The job also requires sharp mental skills and emotional balance.



The largest physical demand may be the ability to handle the stress of balancing both the responsibilities of the job and the critical decisions regarding student lives. Those in this profession must contend not only with unusually long hours, but with an on-call schedule that includes nights, weekends and all holidays as a residence hall is open and active 24 hours a day.  The individual must have high physical stamina and be able to adjust to very frequent interruptions from sleep and family time.

Work environment

An environment that houses 500 will be more inconvenienced with construction, repairs to basic life-support systems, and environmental factors than most of the rest of the campus. 



In addition to the usual requirements for those maintaining a busy office, those in residence hall life create the environment for the life of a huge population.  They are held responsible not only for the running of the office, but for the running of the program.  They are held accountable by residents, parents, and the rest of the campus.