Residential Life & Restorative Practices Coordinator

Position Title: Residential Life & Restorative Practices Coordinator
Reports To: Dean of Restorative Practices and Residential Life
Employment Status: Full time, exempt

About Eagle Rock

Eagle Rock School is a full-scholarship, year-round boarding school located in Estes Park, Colorado. With an enrollment of up to 72 high-school students, our supportive, community-focused environment fosters a transformative learning experience where students can thrive. We implement effective and engaging practices that nurture each student’s unique potential, empowering them to think critically and connect deeply with their education and the world around them. Our school primarily serves adolescents from historically marginalized communities who have the desire and commitment to excel in academics, leadership, and personal growth. Eagle Rock is also a Professional Development Center, supporting innovative educational practices across the United States. Eagle Rock supports students and educators to become catalysts of change in their lives and communities. 

Position Summary:

The Residential Life & Restorative Practices Coordinator (RL-RP Coordinator) is a vital member of Eagle Rock’s Restorative Practices and Residential Life team. This role supports students’ holistic development by designing and facilitating meaningful residential programming during evening and weekend hours that centers belonging, leadership, and student voice. Coordinators collaborate closely with house parents and duty staff to support a safe, inclusive, and engaging living village environment. They help sustain a culture of restorative practice across campus by modeling, coaching, and evaluating community-centered approaches to relationship building, accountability, and repair.

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree required / Master's degree preferred
• Three (3) years of demonstrated experience in the following:
  • youth development, advocacy, and direct services
  • program coordination and after-school programing
  • restorative practices, trauma-informed approaches, and equity-centered frameworks.

Required Abilities & Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to build trusting, generative relationships with high school students from a wide range of backgrounds
• Experience mentoring and supporting young people through transitions, challenges, and identity development
• Commitment to restorative justice, trauma-informed care, and cultivating belonging through systems of accountability and repair
• Skill in designing and facilitating engaging, identity-affirming programming in a residential or youth development setting
• Ability to model and coach restorative practices with both youth and adults; strong facilitation skills for circles, dialogues, and conflict transformation
• Capacity to act as a first responder in residential life settings, including managing safety concerns, conflicts, and emergencies with calm and care
• Ability to give and receive feedback in a culture of learning, equity, and shared leadership
• Proficiency in assessing program impact and using student feedback to guide continuous improvement
• Demonstrated commitment to personal growth and reflection, particularly in areas of antiracism, equity, gender, and power
• Organizational skills to manage logistics, systems, communication, and details related to duty coverage, student records, and programming
• Familiarity with Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Forms, etc.) and willingness to learn school systems

Responsibilities:

• Design, facilitate, and evaluate engaging evening and weekend programming that centers wellness, creativity, student leadership, and belonging
• Actively support students’ holistic development in the Living Village through mentorship, advisory, and informal interactions
• Collaborate with house parents and duty teams to ensure safe, inclusive, and developmentally appropriate residential environments
• Model and coach restorative practices with students and staff; support the implementation of proactive and responsive strategies for community building, accountability, and repair
• Co-lead community processes such as circles, mediations, harm and repair conversations, and student restoration plans
• Participate in duty rotations, including weekday, weekend, and on-call responsibilities
• Help lead orientation and ongoing training for house parents and staff related to restorative practices and residential life
• Supervise and mentor student leaders and fellows assigned to residential or restorative practice roles
• Assess and improve Living Village systems, ensuring they align with student needs and Eagle Rock’s values
• Foster student voice through formal and informal mechanisms; ensure students have meaningful input into the residential and restorative culture
• Participate in school-wide events, house retreats, intramurals, community meetings, and other programming essential to communal life
• Share your personal passions and skills (e.g., music, movement, art, hiking, mindfulness, etc.) with the Eagle Rock community
• Engage in ongoing personal and professional development related to identity, equity, and restorative practices
• Perform other duties related to supporting a thriving, inclusive, and values-aligned residential high school

Essential Job Functions: 

Hold a valid driver’s license. Must be able to sit and drive for approximately 4-5+ hours in a day if needed. Sitting and standing during school events including lifting, bending, pushing, pulling and squating. Going up and down stairs and walking on trails on campus. This position requires the ability to lift heavy luggage or camping gear (30-50+ lbs) when traveling with students. 

Compensation:

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package: 

• Salary range for this position: $50,000-$80,000 (based on education and experience; the higher end of the range is reserved for candidates with advanced degrees or certifications)
• Annual Bonus
• Medical/dental/vision plan 
• Vacation/sick time/additional paid time off
• 401(k) 
• Attractive vehicle lease and purchase program 
• Educational assistance program available

How to apply: 

Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, resume, and 3 professional references (phone number and email address) as one document submitted through https://forms.gle/eJQd8svFtoyXVhwQ6. Clarifying questions can be sent to Christi Kelston, ckelston@eaglerockschool.org.  

Eagle Rock is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and does not tolerate any form of unlawful discrimination. All employment decisions at Eagle Rock are based on merit and to the principle of equal employment opportunity. In keeping with both the letter and spirit of this policy, Eagle Rock will continue to recruit, hire, train, and promote into all job levels the most qualified persons without regard to race, color, religion, genetic information, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran’s status or any other protected characteristic. Members of racial/ethnic minorities and other protected classes are encouraged to apply.

Hiring Timeline

We are committed to finding the right person. This timeline is offered to give applicants a sense of our ideal process. We intend to do as much as we possibly can to stick to this plan. However, we do realize that there might be a circumstance with the best candidate that would require us to shift our plan. We hope the right person is not dissuaded from applying by incongruence between their commitments and our timeline.

• Application Deadline: Open until filled
• Phone Interviews: May 2025
• Onsite Interviews: May-June 2025
• Start Date:  Ideally by July 2025