Title: Area Coordinator
Division: Student Affairs
Department: Housing & Residence Life Operations
FLSA Status: Exempt
Salary Range: Annual Salary
EEO Job Group: 2 C9
Position Summary
The Area Coordinator has overall responsibility in the apartments (housing 350-600 students) or residence hall complexes (housing 350-450 students) for creating a safe, secure, and learner centered environment. Requiring frequent and meaningful interactions with students in a variety of settings while maintaining good records. Area Coordinators serve as educators overseeing the development of students and student staff in the areas of academic growth, personal growth, skill building, and productive citizenship.
Duties/Responsibilities
Framed by the values of USI, Student Affairs and Housing and Residence Life (HRL), the major responsibilities of an Area Coordinator at USI include:
Collaboration:
- Direct supervision of resident assistants (7-15) including weekly meetings with professional staff and student staff both individually and collectively. Maintain appropriate files and tracking to assess learning and development.
- Lead, participate, assess and share results of staff committees overseeing recruitment/selection, training, development, recognition, wellness, and assessment.
- Assist students experiencing emotional, academic, physical, and interpersonal difficulties, and refer them to other professionals when appropriate. Assist in crises.
- Serve as 24-hour on-call contact for housing emergencies; usually weeknight each week and several weekends during the semester. Communicate with the leadership team and document interactions as appropriate. Maintain office hours.
- Participate in Housing and Residence Life events, student affairs and university workshops, opening, closing, and other processes and duties as assigned.
- Work proactively with other offices across campus.
Student Engagement:
- Advocate and empower individuals through role modeling, advising/supervising, and assisting students in their exploration of personal identity as a citizen in a global society.
- Support and promote education programing and initiatives, sponsored departmentally and university wide. Show initiative to develop individual skills.
- Establish continuous personal contact with students to address student needs and concerns by remaining visible, approachable, and active in the areas.
Innovation:
- Maintain general operation of an area (2 residence halls or 9-13 small apartment buildings), including budget management, assessment, occupancy management, and communication with related offices and personnel including housekeeping, housing, and supervisor.
- Encourage the leadership development of students; facilitate a residential education action plan with student staff to support the specific needs of students living in your area.
- Share in the implementation of campus-wide programming by Housing and Residence Life, primarily Eagle’s Night Out, a weekend programming series.
Integrity:
- Understand, support, and enforce campus code of conduct in a developmentally appropriate context; facilitate educational conduct meetings; and assign appropriate sanctions. Support resident assistants in the enforcement of policy and conduct.
- Timely in person and written follow-up on Care Team concerns in support of student wellbeing and retention.
- Respond to concerns and issues of students, parents/guardians, staff, faculty and others in a manner that provides exceptional service, accurate information, and fosters relationship-building.
Learning:
- Develop intentional student interactions and programming focused on the curricular experience, including implementing a residential curriculum that seeks to create a meaningful residential experience; assessing curriculum, ongoing development of lesson plans; and mentoring students living on campus.
- Provide support to Theme Living Communities (TLC), themed communities and academic initiatives as outlined by the department.
- Serve on various committees.
- Participate in webinars and departmental and university wide professional development.
- Provide basic crisis management interventions with students while educating and referring students to the campus resources available to enhance their collegiate experience; be an educator to student staff to be able to manage low-level referral situations.
Required Knowledge and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Two years of related experience required.
- Strong interpersonal, organizational, writing, and time management skills required.
- Self-starter with the ability to work independently as well as effectively as a team member.
- Experience with computers, internet, word processing, spreadsheet, database, and email software.
- Strong customer service skills, written, and oral presentation skills.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality required.
- Must possess a high level of integrity.
- Must be able to be flexible and adaptable.
- Must be able to work with the student population.
- Must have a valid driver’s license.
- Must be able to live on campus.
Preferred Knowledge and Skills
- Master’s degree strongly preferred.
Functional Requirements
- Independent physical access to all campus housing (residence halls and apartments including those under construction and renovation) to observe and physically assess as required for staff oversight, job evaluation, training/orientation events, and for meetings with managers, committees, and vendors.
- Frequent physical movement during some events to oversee activities, to make presentations, and to interact with attendees.
- Extended sedentary periods alternate with highly active periods to complete responsibilities of the position.
- Effective problem solving and a sustained high level of accuracy while meeting deadlines and achieving critical outcomes, even under demanding conditions such as multiple priorities and short-notice deadlines.
- The presentation of a consistently professional demeanor at all times, even in difficult, negative, or frustrating situations such as when handling complaints from students, parents/guardians, staff, faculty, or members of the community.
- The application of effective diplomatic and interpersonal communication skills when mediating conflicts between competing interests, some of whom may at times express strong emotions such as anger.
- Ability to use computers and computer systems (hardware and software) to set up functions, to enter data, to retrieve and process information and to create documents.
- Ability to retrieve information from written documents and from computer-generated reports.
Regular Work Hours/Travel Requirements
- Standard office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., though some evening and weekend hours are required.
- Routine on-call periods requiring staying on campus including holidays and university closings.
- Area Coordinators are required to live on campus in order to be active with and available to the USI community.
- Area Coordinators are allowed to leave Evansville up to two weekends a month in coordination with department policies and practices.
- Emergency response periodically required to area hospitals during on-call rotation.
- Occasional travel may be required to regional, state or national conferences.
About USI
The University of Southern Indiana is a public higher education institution located on a beautiful 1,400-acre campus in Evansville, IN. We offer employees exceptional benefits! Benefits for this position include:
- Affordable medical, dental, vision, life and short term and long-term disability insurance plans.
- Retirement plan where the University makes the total contribution equivalent to 11% of annual salary.
- Full tuition fee waiver for employees/75% for spouses and dependent children.
- Vacation and sick time
- Holiday pay
- Free access to Recreation, Fitness & Wellness Center.
- Access to on-campus University Health Center and Dental Hygiene Clinic.
For more information about the benefits that USI offers, please visit www.usi.edu/hr/benefits.
Application Process
Click “Apply Now!” near the top right of this page to complete an application and upload application materials to the attention of the Search Committee Chair. Application materials should include:
Search Committee Chair:
If you have questions about the open position, please contact Alex Brennan, search committee chair, at akbrennan@usi.edu.
Best Consideration Date:
For best consideration, please submit materials by May 25, 2026.
Pre-Employment Screening
A background check will be required for employment in this position.
Authorization to Work in the United States
USI will not sponsor an employment-related visa for this position.
Interview Accommodations
Persons with disabilities requiring accommodations in the application and interview process please contact the Associate Director of Human Resources, Constance Hermann, at cjhermann1@usi.edu or (812) 461-5363. Contacting the Associate Director of Human Resources is intended for use in seeking disability-related accommodations only. For general applicant inquiries, contact Human Resources at HumanRes@usi.edu or (812) 464-1815.
EEO Statement
USI is an Equal Opportunity Employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities
