About the role
Department: University Housing
Appointment Type and Duration: Regular, Ongoing
Salary: $44,000 - $47,500 per year
Compensation Band: OS-OA03-Fiscal Year 2026-2027
FTE: 1.0
Application Review Begins
November 9, 2026 open until filled
Special Instructions to Applicants
To ensure consideration, please include the following with your online application:
- A current resume or CV
- Cover letter
- Names and contact information for three professional references
Department Summary
Student Services and Enrollment Management’s mission is to build a diverse, exceptional, and inclusive campus community. The person in this role will work toward this mission in the following ways: Illustrate efforts at awareness and implementation with other individuals in the workplace; act as an advocate to assure efforts toward best practices, including support of trainings and serving as a resource for inquiries; act as a supporter to implement policy and/or establish procedures or guidelines for their school/college or VP area/Division; and act as a supporter to implement and/or establish procedures or guidelines for the University.
University Housing, a department within the Division of Student Services and Enrollment Management, is committed to support student success by cultivating inclusive communities. Our goal is to provide a robust living experience through accessible and affordable state-of-the-art housing, dining, social and academic programs for the entire student body to develop community leaders, innovators and change-makers who will enrich the future.
We value equity and inclusion, responsibility and integrity, innovation and learning, and safety and security. University Housing staff work hard to incorporate these values into daily work and practices to ensure an excellent UO experience.
University Housing units which include Business Services Operations, Dining Services, Facilities Services, Promotions & Student Recruitment, and Residence Life. University Housing is a $110-million dollar educational and business department that is a self-sustaining, self-liquidating agency of the University (receives no tuition or tax support for its operating budget).
Living on campus adds tremendous value for students and the University. Students who live on campus their first year have higher grades, are retained at the University of Oregon at higher rates, graduate at higher rates and graduate more quickly.
Position Summary
The Flex Community Director (FCD) is an essential services, live-in Officer of Administration position critical to ensuring operational continuity, departmental resilience, and the seamless delivery of the residential student experience. While the Flex Community Director is not assigned to a specific residence hall or student worker group this dynamic role functions as an immediate stopgap leader, deployed to manage residential communities and supervise as operational needs require (e.g., during peer absences, or unexpected vacancies). When not actively covering a community, the Flex Community Director focuses on filling operational need, advancing departmental special projects, co-constructing residential education initiatives, and cultivating community as an entity uniquely embedded in the flourishing community imperative of all resident students. They provide vital support for large-scale, community-wide operational procedures such as under enrollment, health and safety inspections, fire drills, community events, hall council, etc.
The position actively champions the university goal of fostering a flourishing community, defined as the holistic development and thriving of every individual in our diverse community, achieved through growth, well-being, resilience, trust, belonging, robust connection, and sense of purpose.
The incumbent of the Flex Community Director position exercises a significant amount of independent judgment and remains in the departmental on-call crisis response rotation; the incumbent is subject to regular relocation to different campus housing locations based on the ongoing assessment of operational needs.
The Flex Community Director is a fixed, permanent appointment and a term of employment, all Community Directors are required to sign a live-in/live-on agreement.
Minimum Requirements
- Master’s degree OR Bachelor’s degree plus two years of full-time experience in residence life.
- One year experience with direct supervision of student staff or student leaders.
Professional Competencies
- Ability to integrate knowledge of anti-deficit and social justice frameworks in dispositions, skills, and work.
- Knowledge of theory and techniques for advising and supporting diverse individuals or groups, including traditionally underrepresented and underserved students.
- Ability to build and develop an inclusive, cohesive team.
- Ability to interpret, communicate and enforce policies and procedures.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with designing or implementing assessment, evaluation, or research.
- Experience with ethical and equitable student conduct/residential conduct adjudication.
- Experience with emergency response, crisis management or postvention follow-up.
- Experience designing, facilitating, or implementing a residential curriculum.
- Experience consulting, collaborating, or liaising with faculty or academic partners.
- Experience co-constructing or facilitating living-learning communities, academic residential programs, or co-curricular environments.
FLSA Exempt: Yes
All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
The University of Oregon is proud to offer a robust benefits package to eligible employees, including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off. For more information about benefits, visit our website.
The University of Oregon is an equal-opportunity institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The University encourages all qualified individuals to apply and does not discriminate on the basis of any protected status, including veteran and disability status. The University is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. To request an accommodation in connection with the application process, please email us or call 541-346-5112.
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