Community Life Specialist - Burnaby, Canada - Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser University

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Burnaby, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Union/Affiliation:

Administrative and Professional Staff (APSA)

Pay range:

$67,089 to $80,019 annually

SFU Department Descr:

Student Services - Residences

Position Grade:

7
- # of openings:

1

Biweekly Hours:

72

Who We Are
Residence and Housing is an integral part of SFU's academic and educational programs and services.

The unit supports the academic mission of SFU and Student Services by:

Creating purposeful and intentional communities that emphasize academic support, success, and leadership development through programs and services.
Providing market priced living and learning environments that are safe, clean, sustainable, attractive, well maintained, comfortable, and welcoming.
Ensuring financial stability, service viability, and effective management and administration of the operations.
Providing updated technology and data driven services that meet the needs of housing and residence students and users in a responsive, timely, courteous, efficient, and effective manner.
Fostering professional relationships with on and off campus partners to enhance services to students and guests.
Ensuring ongoing assessment of programs, services, and practices that are dedicated to an ethos of continuous improvement.
Arranging ongoing training and development for staff to ensure they are knowledgeable about best practices in the housing and residence life field; and able to properly contribute to the student affairs profession and SFU community.

About the Role

The Community Life Specialist is responsible for creating, delivering, and sustaining a purposeful living and learning environment that contributes to the academic and personal success of students.

The Specialist provides leadership and oversight in the day-to-day community management of assigned residence communities, and the work of unionized staff which includes the approval of educational programming, expenses, and staff resources.

Liaising with various campus and community partners, the Specialist ensures the safety, security, health and wellbeing of those living within Residences, and all residence properties through student support, administrating the community standards process, and participating in an on-call rotation.

While on call the role triages, responds to and/or manages resources during crises/emergency, and disciplinary situations after university business hours, through navigating department and university protocols.

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