Hawaii - Residential Life Assistant

Residential Life Assistant Job Description
Position is paid and includes housing, meals, utilities, and health insurance on top of intern salary. 

• Serve as a role model, embodying the mission and values of our program in daily interactions with students. Foster a supportive, inclusive, and growth-oriented residential community by demonstrating respect, integrity, and responsibility. Through leadership, encourage students to engage in meaningful relationships, practice self-discipline, and contribute positively to their living environment.
• Actively support the School Mission:

Asia Pacific International School educates students in a loving and caring Christian environment to become globally enlightened citizens, who can bridge between East and West and embrace exciting challenges of the New Pacific Century.

• Actively support the Boarding Mission:

To create a caring, supportive community, allowing students to grow into the best versions of themselves.  Students who live within this program will become responsible and independent servant-leaders, reliable and adventurous, be able to care for one another, and be ready to be productive citizens of the larger world.

More specifically, the Residential Life Assistant will:

• Be familiar with and live out the Boarding Mission and School Mission.
• Assist Dean of Residential Life with any and all residential life related tasks.
• Receive, review and approve/deny signout requests for student departures over the weekends (other approved signout times).
• Oversee the coordination of school shuttles to and from the airport for any necessary student travel.
• Meet with students in groups and one-on-one as needed.
• Enact student discipline when necessary.
• Work with Dean of Residential Life to design/oversee/facilitate fitting programs for boarding students.
• Work with Dean of Residential Life to problem-solve student discipline issues.
• Fill in for dorm parents who need coverage as necessary.
• Perform AC and light inspections in student rooms.
• Move dorm furniture and prepare boarding student rooms as necessary.
• Mediate meetings between students when necessary.
• Assist Dean of Residential Life with busier times of the year, including:
  • Summer Break return shuttles
  • Pre-Academic Program
  • Christmas Break Return shuttles
  • Spring Break Return shuttles
  • Dorm cleanings
  • “Experience Student” Programs
  • New Pacific Century Academy
• Answer emails as necessary.
• Help oversee the Reslife Instagram page by updating, reviewing, captioning and adding posts that reflect the activity of the reslife program.
• Be familiar with the student handbook and the student handbook test. Administer handbook tests as necessary.
• Be on duty multiple nights a week and on multiple weekend teams.
• Organize and track student Passports and I20’s.
• Organize, track and update the student tech registry
• Review security camera footage as necessary.
• Assist in overseeing proper usage of school gym.
• Assist in overseeing gym certification for students.
• Assist in overseeing updates and revisions to any student handbook policy.
• Assist with any and all holiday events for boarding students.
• Transport students to medical facilities if necessary.
• Meet with parents to give boarding student updates and to strategize around student growth.
• Be familiar with how to use REACH Boarding software to track duty reports and student signouts.
• Compile welcome baskets for new students.
• Oversee the celebration of boarding student birthdays.
• Assist in organizing Reslife Google Drive folder as necessary.