Residential Advisor

Job Description

Job Description

Position Location

This position in located in our Cleveland, Ohio office.

Job Overview

Responsible for providing a safe and positive living environment that delivers guidance to students to ensure positive group living relations and achievement in the program in compliance with government and management directives.

Responsibilities

Essential Job Duties:

• Maintain positive and effective relations with students. Provide guidance for students to achieve a positive attitude and proper behavior in the dormitory living situation, and to accomplish their goals and objectives.
• Determine and recommend student visits to the counselor and health staff as appropriate.
• Supervise, direct, and monitor dorm and student activities, as designated, including dorm government and peer court.
• Assist with dorm and recreational activities both on and off Center.
• Transport students, as needed, to and from recreational activities, airports, stores, bus stations, etc.
• Prepare the morning report; pass list, and other administrative correspondence relating to students, including evaluations.
• Direct students and assist in the cleanup and maintenance of the dormitory. Complete dorm and room inspections as assigned. Identify and communicate dorm maintenance needs to dorm supervisor or designee. Recommend or requisition supplies to provide needs for dorm living and safety of students.
• Conduct group counseling sessions and dorm meetings in accordance with the schedule. As assigned, participate in and conduct orientation activities as well as other Center committees and activities.
• Maintain dormitory and individual student files. Ensure files are complete, updated, and contain all required documentation.
• Participate in student training, as appropriate, and evaluate student progress as part of interdepartmental teams.
• Serve as CDO when assigned by management in absence of social development manager or dorm supervisors.
• Maintain accountability of students and property. Adhere to standard safety practices.
• Cultivate and maintain a positive Center climate that is free of harassment, intimidation, and disrespect, in order to provide a safe place for staff and students to work and learn.
• Promote student attainment of career success standards through modeling appropriate skills, mentoring students, monitoring skill acquisition and intervening when inappropriate behavior is observed.
• Assist with monitoring student clothing trips, as required.
• Perform all other related duties as assigned.

Key Responsibilities:

• Completing all mandated training requirements per government and management directives.
• Timely and cost-effective performance of duties.
• Communicating effectively verbally and in writing with all levels of Center staff and students.
• Ability to develop rapport and positive working relationships with all departments.
• Timely completion and accuracy of all departmental work.
• Dealing with a variety of people in a professional, courteous manner in diversified situations.
• Adherence to established company safety policies and ability to work in a safe manner, using any required personal protective equipment (PPE) as may be required.
• Compliance with company standard operating procedures and personnel policies and procedures.

Job Requirements

Mandatory:

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Successfully pass any background check and/drug test required on the contract.
• Ability to obtain & maintain valid Driver’s License and an acceptable driving record.

Preferred:

• Previous experience with Job Corps program.
• Previous experience within a residential youth program.
• Associate’s degree in counseling, social work, rehabilitation, or related field.
• Two (2) years working with youth.

**About Chugach: **

When you work at Chugach Government Solutions (CGS), you join a proud legacy of supporting missions while sustaining culture.

The federal division of Chugach Alaska Corporation, CGS has been supporting critical missions as a government contractor for over 25 years. Our focus is to support facility maintenance, IT/technical services, construction and education. We are proud to have built, and continue to foster, an incredibly talented team spanning across the globe in hundreds of different fields – each team member proud to serve our country with first-class business services, while also making a difference for our Chugach shareholders.

At CGS, empowering employees is a part of our core, and that focus is one of the ways we build and foster high-performing teams. We empower our employees through competitive compensation and benefits package, professional growth opportunities, truthful communication, and more!

If you are looking for an opportunity to serve something bigger than yourself; if you want your day job to be one that creates meaningful value; if you are looking for an environment that highly values employees and respects individual differences – then Chugach Government Solutions may be the right fit for you!

Disclosures

Chugach Government Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, disability, genetic factors, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Chugach will provide reasonable accommodations, according to applicable state and federal laws, to all qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities. In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with Chugach Government Solutions or any of its subsidiaries, please email View email address on ziprecruiter.com.

Chugach Government Solutions supports pay transparency and is committed to equitable and competitive compensation practices. Compensation for this role will be determined based on factors including job responsibilities, experience, skills, internal equity, geographic location, and applicable contract requirements. Where required by law, compensation ranges will be provided to candidates during the hiring process.