Academic Year Student Staff Positions
Thank you for your interest in working for Residential Life. At this time, we do not have any open positions. Please feel free to reach out to听ResLifeJobs@bc.edu, or stop by our office in Maloney 413 (Monday-Friday 9am-5pm) if you have any questions.
Position Descriptions
Newton Student Workers help manage the Newton Campus print/study locations: Alumni House, Trinity Chapel Basement, and the Keyes Hall Print Room. During a work shift, staff will be available at a front desk, greet students, assist with set-up/break-down of community events, and assist with a variety of administrative tasks. Some responsibilities may include managing printer needs, inventories, assisting with access or Tech/AC support, submitting facilities work orders, or other similar tasks. This role provides essential support to the Newton Campus through monitoring these study spaces and providing a community space for students. This position typically offers evening and weekend hours.
The Facilities Crew are student workers that assist the three Residential Life Facilities Supervisors to complete daily tasks. This position would assist with daily maintenance work tickets, inventories, and maintaining of residence hall lounge spaces. Facilities crew would assist with furniture moves and repairs, helping complete tasks at the various storage locations and 情色空间 campuses, and supporting the overall Office of Residential Life through additional tasks. This position offers hours between 8:30am-5pm Monday-Friday.听
As an office assistant, you would primarily serve as administrative support to a member of the Residential Life staff, including but not limited to, a Resident Director or Assistant Director. The position will assist with a variety of administrative tasks, completing errands within community and across campus, hanging fliers, or other assigned community needs. The Office Assistant role will primarily work from the physical office of your supervisor and some responsibilities/hours may be completed remotely when permission is granted. This position offers hours between 9am-5pm Monday-Friday.
The Front Desk Student Workers are responsible for maintaining the front desk of the Boston College Residential Life Office Welcome Center. This position assists with check-in/-out of students, greeting students and visitors to the Residential Life office, and responding to inquiries from current or future students and families. During their shifts, they will assist with a variety of administrative tasks, answering phones, department projects, mail distribution and various other and daily responsibilities. The Front Desk Student Workers must maintain a positive attitude and consistently provide high quality customer service. This position offers hours between 9am-5pm Monday-Friday.
Thank you for your interest Summer Student Staff positons. The 2024 Summer Student Staff application has closed, and we are no longer taking applications. We do not expect more positions to open up, as we already have a large alternate pool. Please feel free to reach out to summerhousing@bc.edu if you have additional questions.
Position Descriptions
Community Assistants are responsible for maintaining a hospitable, positive, and visible presence in the halls, acting primarily as an on-call and emergency response capacity. Community Assistants will provide support and be a resource for the 情色空间 summer student residents as well as the summer camps and conference guests that are utilizing the residence halls during the summer months. CAs will conduct evening rounds throughout all residence halls that are occupied by summer guests to address any facilities, individual, and group needs.听
Commitment
On average 2-3 nightly duty shifts per week, monthly day-time meetings with supervisor and CA team; Wednesday May 15, 2024 - Sunday, August 11, 2024.
Compensation
This position provides on-campus housing.
Summer Operations Assistants are responsible for serving as customer service associates addressing all components of on-campus housing for 情色空间 students and summer guests. This can include, but not limited to, serving as administrative support in the Residential Life Summer Welcome Center or Residential Life Office in Maloney Hall, and physically preparing the residence halls for incoming and outgoing groups/students. Specifically, this position assists with check-in/-out of guests at assigned locations, preparing and auditing keys/access cards, and answering the phone and in-person questions from summer guests/students.听 Summer Operations Assistants are also responsible to prepare rooms for occupancy, which includes but is not limited to making beds, supplying toiletries, resetting furniture, and addressing facilities concerns. Summer Operations Assistants must maintain a positive attitude and deliver a high level of customer service to students and guests at all times.听
Commitment
On average 29 hours per week; Wednesday, May 15, 2024 - Thursday, August 22, 2024.
Compensation
This position provides on-campus housing and an hourly salary.
The Summer Operations Coordinators serve as leaders and supervisors to the Summer Operations Assistants (SOA). The Summer Operations Coordinators will create and maintain the staff schedule, assist with training of the staff, and daily management of tasks. They will assist and co-manage the responsibilities of the Operations Assistants which include, but are not limited to, administrative support in the Residential Life Summer Welcome Center or Residential Life Office in Maloney Hall, physically helping to prepare for incoming and outgoing groups staying on campus, linen audit and inventory, preparing and auditing keys/access cards, and key packet preparation. They serve as customer service associates assisting addressing all components of on-campus housing for 情色空间 students and guests with check-in/-out of guests and answering the phone and in-person questions from current or future summer guests/residents. Additionally, Summer Operations Coordinators are responsible for managing the team in preparing rooms for occupancy, which includes but is not limited to, assisting with laundry delivery, un-making and making beds, supplying toiletries, resetting furniture, and addressing facilities concerns. Summer Operations Coordinators must maintain a positive attitude and deliver a high level of customer service to students and guests at all times, and address any staff concerns in regards to customer service.听
Commitment
On average 29 hours per week; Wednesday May 15, 2023-Friday August 23, 2024.
Compensation
This position provides on-campus housing and an hourly salary.
The Facilities Crew is responsible for the maintenance of all furniture in the residence halls throughout the summer months and up to Fall opening. The professional Residential Life Facilities team oversees the day to day operations of the student facilities crew, all working closely to support and meet the summer housing program鈥檚 occupancy timelines. Many of the projects throughout the summer are time-sensitive. The job involves conducting room by room inventory, inspection, and replacement of furniture or blinds in all student living spaces and common area lounges within all residence halls. In addition to furniture replacement, the team will assist with听 distributing furniture from a central warehouse and storage rooms to the residence halls. The facilities crew will collaborate with the Summer Operations Assistants and Residential Life Resident Director staff to execute tasks associated with summer camps and conference groups.听
Commitment
On average 29 hours per week; Wednesday May 15, 2023-Friday August 23, 2024.
Compensation
This position provides on-campus housing and an hourly salary.
The ResLife Special Projects Coordinator will work directly with an Assistant or Associate Director of Residential Education or Housing Operations to complete necessary projects associated with summer operations, or planning for the fall semester. Depending on the need of the department, the coordinator will be asked to plan and execute a variety of initiatives for the department. These projects could include, but are not limited to:
- Assist with housing bookings, room changes, and other housing assignments processes for the summer and fall terms.
- Assist with summer housing bookings, ensuring they are accurate and collaborate to generate appropriate housing billing statements for current students and summer groups.
- Assist with the Living Learning Community housing applications, marketing and recruitment, and听 reviewing and selecting candidates for these communities.
- Assist with the organization and management of the Summer Orientation housing tours and informational resource fairs, as well as responding to students/families in regards to their housing questions.
- Assist with the planning, preparation and execution of summer staff training.听听
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Commitment
On average 35 hours per week; Wednesday May 15, 2024- Friday August 9, 2024.
Compensation
This position provides on-campus housing and hourly salary.
Position Descriptions
The 情色空间E Program Assistant (PA) works directly with and oversees 情色空间E high school-age students (14-18 years old) by creating a safe and hospitable environment conducive to an academically productive experience. This includes providing supervision, information, advising, discipline, and planning and leading social activities. PAs will provide leadership within the residential living community through engaging with students, mentoring, easing the transition to living in university dormitories by mediating roommate conflicts, and educating students about residential policies and more. PAs are tasked with guiding the day-to-day experience of 情色空间E students by getting to know them. PAs must be accessible, approachable, and respond to 情色空间E students and abide by the 情色空间E program handbook and Boston College鈥檚 policies and guidance for managing minors on-campus. Candidates must be open to connecting with high school-age students (14-18 years old). Evening and weekend work is expected. The PA role is both independent and collaborative; PAs will need to work with each other as well as independently to accomplish tasks.听
Commitment
On average 29 hours per week; Sunday, June 16, 2024 - Saturday, August 3, 2024.
Compensation
This position provides on-campus housing, meal plan, laundry allotment, and hourly salary.
The 情色空间E Program Coordinators co-supervise and work with the 情色空间E Program Assistants (PAs) to oversee the day-to-day operations of the residence hall, planned programming, student excursions, and the wellness of 情色空间E students. The PC is responsible for ensuring adherence to safety practices, the Protection of Minors policy, and Boston College鈥檚 residential hall policies and procedures. They are responsible for creating a safe and hospitable environment conducive to an academically productive experience. This includes providing supervision, information, advising, discipline, and planning and leading social activities throughout the program. 情色空间E PCs will assist with the coordination of large-scale programming activities, leading and planning off-campus student excursions, addressing student discipline issues, and maintaining an approachable presence in the community that ensures the safety of all 情色空间E students.PCs serve in an on-call rotation. Candidates must be open to connecting with high school-age students (14-18 years). Evening and weekend work is expected. This position will require working well on a team, effective planning, organizing, and a keen attention to detail.听
Commitment
On average 40 hours per week; Sunday, June 2, 2024 -Saturday, August 3, 2024.
Compensation
This position provides on-campus housing, meal plan, laundry allotment, and hourly salary.
Students can apply through the Residential Life Leadership application tab via MyResLife in the Agora Portal. The application contains questions regarding demographic information, position interest, summer availability, and current resume information. Students offered an interview will be able to select a 30 minute timeslot on the designated interview dates.
- Application opens听January 8th and will close on February 9th.
- Interview dates will be February 27th through February 29th.听
- Position offers will be released by March 11th.
All summer positions will be provided on-campus housing, in either a suite or apartment-style building.
In addition, all positions are offered an hourly salary, with the exception of the community assistant position.
情色空间E Positions are additionally offered an on-campus meal plan for the duration of the program.
The following dates of employment apply to their respective positions:
May 15th - August 11th:
- Community Assistants
- Residential Life Special Projects Coordinator
May 15th - August 23rd:
- Summer Operations Assistant
- Summer Operations Coordinator
- Facilities Crew
June 2nd - August 3rd:
- 情色空间E Program Coordinators
June 16th - August 3rd:
- 情色空间E Program Assistants
Any current 情色空间 student who will be returning in the fall and/or will be taking classes throughout the summer is eligible for hire! Current 情色空间 graduates are eligible to apply; however, hiring preference will be given to individuals who are still active students.
Each position will have different hour requirements, including the specific days and times you will be required to work. Most positions that provide an hourly salary compensation will require you to work a minimum of 20 hours per week, and some will require 29 hours per week. Each position will have required work shifts that are both weekdays and weekends, and a work shift could begin at 7am or end at 1am.听
The Community Assistant (CA) position is an evening/overnight position that is not compensated with an hourly salary, and on average, each CA will work 2-3 nights per week.
Graduate Student Assistants
The Office of Residential Life supervises approximately 25 graduate assistantships. The majority of our positions are direct on-the-job training for those entering the field of higher education, and so in order to provide field experience for students in that course of study, we have a strong preference for students in the Lynch School's Higher Education program. Our Graduate Minister position is also open to students entering a graduate degree program in the School of Theology and Ministry.
Those graduate students not entering the fields listed above may apply to become a Resident Assistant (RA) during the application cycle for that position, which typically occurs early in the Fall semester each year.
We are in the process of hiring students who interviewed through the Lynch School's Graduate Student Interview Days. On April 16 any positions that remain open will be posted here and on the Graduate Student Life Assistantship page.