Rhode Island College invites applicants for the position of Assistant Director, Facilities and Operations, Off-Hour Operations. This is a full-time, calendar year, continuing position.

Rhode Island College is a regional comprehensive public college that serves approximately 6,400 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students through its five schools: the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Feinstein School of Education and Human Development, the School of Business, the School of Nursing and the School of Social Work. Established in 1854, we are Rhode Island’s first public institution of higher education. The college is located on a beautiful 180-acre suburban campus in the vibrant city of Providence, and has satellite locations at the Rhode Island Nursing Education Center in Providence’s Innovation District and the Rhode Island College Workforce Development Hub in Central Falls, RI. We are known throughout the Northeast for high-quality academic programs, small class sizes, personalized, hands-on learning experiences, world-class faculty, and high value compared to other four-year institutions. Rhode Island College highly values candidates who are adept at communicating with and meeting the needs of today’s diverse college communities. Successful candidates will possess the cultural competency and the emotional agility to respond to issues of diversity and inclusion while advancing the College’s strategic pillar of Inclusive Excellence.

This position has primary management and supervision of the second shift housekeeping crew, but will also provide emergency inspection and or supervision of Maintenance and Grounds issues that arise during off hours for those crews. The Department of Facilities and Operations is responsible for the maintenance of all campus buildings and property and contractor supervision.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum of five years of managerial experience in the area of custodial services and or facility maintenance
• Valid Driver’s License
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Competency with current business and trades technologies
• Ability to physically negotiate the campus buildings under all environmental conditions.
• Technological skills with facilities-related software and computers.
• Ability to physically negotiate the campus buildings under all environmental conditions.
• Good understanding of current cleaning technology.

• Experience in a unionized setting
• Bilingual