Associate Manager, League Housing
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Overtime Elite (OTE) is searching for an Associate Manager of League Housing to supervise the residential experience and implement the resident life programming for twenty-four elite high school basketball players. This person will support student-athlete development while having the opportunity to execute a comprehensive residential education program that intentionally contributes to athletes’ learning, growth, and success. They will have the overall responsibility for maintaining a safe, secure, and learner-centered environment. This position requires frequent and meaningful interactions with athletes in a variety of settings. They must be accessible and on-call outside of regular operating hours to provide crisis intervention and mental health/ wellness support.
All student-athletes live off-campus in student accommodation in Atlanta. Though they are high school-aged students, they will experience a college living environment and a personalized learning experience. The student-athletes will require a balance of guidance, structure, and autonomy to achieve their academic, athletic, and professional aspirations. To ensure that the athletes thrive in such an environment, they will incorporate opportunities to develop and practice essential executive functioning skills, including flexible thinking and self-control. Developing these skills will enable athletes to effectively balance priorities in a highly autonomous, nontraditional high school setting.
In collaboration with the League Housing Manager and League Housing Director, this person will execute daily, weekly, and monthly cutting-edge initiatives that appeal to driven and talented athletes. Using focus groups, surveys, and formal and informal interactions, this person will elicit student-athlete voices to ensure that residence life experiences are relevant, supportive, and fun. To create a culture of team and family, they will proactively implement restorative justice practices as a means to conflict resolution. Through restorative justice practices, student-athletes practice OTE's Keys for Success and develop accountability and community responsibility.
About Overtime Elite
OTE is a transformative global sports league built to serve, educate, and empower the most talented basketball players on their path from proficiency to pro. The next generation of basketball superstars do not have a league to call their own - here is where OTE comes in. We are creating a catered solution FOR these athletes to be EMPOWERED.
Overtime has been able to fill the gaps and needs within the market and it’s given us exposure to those unserved in the ecosystem. We’re untethered to any past norms so we can aggressively service. Where other leagues failed to develop storylines behind unknown players, Overtime is internationally known for discovering the next generation of basketball superstars. There is an opportunity to serve the underserved elite athlete and challenge the ecosystem.
What you'll do:
Student, Family, and Community Engagement
- Develop and nurture strong relationships with families to consistently communicate athlete progress and socialization.
- Respond to concerns and issues of students, parents, staff, and others in a manner that provides exceptional service, accurate information and fosters relationship-building.
Mental Wellness/ Student Management
- Implement residential life programming that provides opportunities for athletes to engage in joyful and supportive residential life experiences that embody the core values of OTE.
- Supervise residential extracurricular, social, and academic activities.
- Supervise student-athletes in the residence hall and, as required, during away and home basketball games and recreational outings.
- Implement restorative justice practices to aid student-athletes in repairing and transforming relationships through conflict resolutions.
- Model and incorporate executive function skills within residence life experiences to build student-athlete agency.
- Collaborate with the Mental Wellness Advisor to integrate counseling and mental health/wellness programming and interventions into residence life.
Health and Safety
- Serve as a member of the essential personnel in crises, be knowledgeable of departmental and campus protocol and resources, prepare staff and students for potential emergencies, and address daily community concerns.
Facilities Management and Logistic
- Serve as OTE staff on duty at night and on weekends on a rotating basis.
- Reside in the residence hall on a full-time basis, except scheduled days off and holiday periods when the residence hall is officially closed.
- Monitor, maintain and mend residence hall furniture and cosmetic work.
- Maintain occupancy/roster and maintain key control/inventory.
- Liaise mail deliveries
- Provide the student-athletes with local transportation (in OTE's school bus and vans).
Who you are:
OTE seeks a candidate with experience in the field of residence life operations, education, social-emotional learning, with a passion for executing and monitoring comprehensive residential education programs designed to contribute to student learning, growth, and success intentionally. Candidates must possess an authentic ability to build relationships with young men ages 16-18 and have experienced success mentoring motivated adolescent males. The ideal candidate understands the essential nature of their role in executing daily, weekly, and monthly residence life functions to enhance athletes' quality of life at OTE. Successful candidates are good role models and can set boundaries and establish norms. They are respectful, patient, and supportive and are enthusiastic about creating a "home away from home" that supports a group of twenty-four of the most talented and elite basketball athletes in the world.
The ideal candidate can build strong and positive relationships with athletes, colleagues, families, and community members/stakeholders and has strong written and oral communication skills. Candidates must possess expertise in residence life coordination and implementation of community building systems and structures that align with OTE’s mission, vision, and values.
Necessary skills/ attributes Include:
- Experience working in a dormitory.
- 2+ years of experience in residence life administration, student affairs, or leadership in an academic setting
- Worked at a high school or an institution serving teens
- Student conduct experience
- Bachelor’s degree in higher education, general administration, and leadership, or social services
- Problem-solving
- Mentoring
- Operations and logistics
Preferred skills/ attributes include:
- Curriculum design and development
- Deep understanding of restorative practices
- Emergency response and crisis management
- Advanced degree/ certification in higher education, general administration, and leadership, or social services
- Worked in professional sports
- Mental health direct services
- Training design and facilitation
