Job Description
Note: This is an internship position for current undergraduate and graduate students for Summer 2023.
Residence Life Interns develop their leadership, professional, and community-building skills as they serve as a live-in Resident Advisor to students enrolled in the Summer Immersion Program for High School Students. Additionally, interns will work in a Program Assistant role with responsibilities geared towards program administration, student life, academic support, or community engagement.
- Serve as a Residential Advisor to approximately 10 high school students.
- Oversee and uphold the strict adherence to the program’s Behavioral Standards agreement any report instances in which a student was found to be violating said policy
- Enforce the program’s dormitory etiquette policy which includes executing nightly check-ins with assigned residents. Report student tardiness, disruptive behavior, and care concerns to program management.
- Work to ensure that students are effectively and responsibly engaging with their course work and community life
- Research, plan, and lead cultural excursions to destinations in and around New York City on evenings and weekends and supervise attending students.
- Maintain an active cell phone and remain on-call for the duration of the practicum - with the exception of designated time off.
- Attend and actively engage in a mandatory two-week training seminar prior to the start of the program
- Perform duties in a program support capacity in the areas of campus life, student services, program administration, academic support, or community engagement
- Act as a model of proper behavior and attitude for the students of the program, a responsibility that extends to all instances in which the incumbent is acting in an official capacity or interacting with community members.
- Engage seriously in the program and seek to make a contribution that furthers the goal of building community among the interns, staff, and high school students.
- Other duties as assigned