Vinn Randazzo

Experience

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  Department of Residential Life

  Aug 2009 - Sept 2010

  Graduate Assistant

  • Supervise a student staff of six; oversee programming responsibilities and customer service.• Managed the Quad Office, answering phones, emailing updates, attending divisional meetings.• Spend three weekends on call handling situations that occur on the quad, and once a week every week.• Hold weekly 1:1 meetings with the staff.

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  University at Albany

  Jan 2010 - Dec 2013

  • Establish orientation training schedule.• Interview student staff for potential orientation leaders. • Train student orientation leaders on university policy, diversity, public speaking skills, team- building, and duty rotation. • Host parent and new student orientation• Supervise 20 student staff and oversight of the orientation program. • Contact multiple university offices for presentations.• Create an inviting environment for new students and new parents.• Serve on-call emergency duty rotation. Show less • Create and organize hiring cycles for student staff positions twice a year. • Advertise recruitment for departmental hiring and attend interest meetings. • Interview and evaluate 120-500 candidates and select new applicants for the department.• Guide applicants through filling out human resources paperwork.• Organize a training session and present for new and returning staff members.• Host monthly staff meetings and create social events for the department while balancing budgets.• Organize a professional staff holiday party.• Organize an end of the year semi-formal for the entire department and hosted.• Supervise a student staff of 50 and directly manage 14 Resident Assistants.• Manage a residential tower of 500 freshmen.• Hold judicial meetings and served on a weekly duty on call rotation for emergencies. • Coordinated departmental and present at divisional staff meetings. • Meet daily with students to discuss personal and academic issues.• Maintain a programming and allocate funds to staff accordingly.• Manage facility issues and room change request. Show less

  • Orientation Coordinator

    Jan 2013 - Dec 2013

  • Residence Hall and Staff Development Director

    Jan 2010 - Dec 2013
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  Pace University

  Jan 2014 - Sept 2020

  Managed residence hall room assignments of up to 2K students while supervising 2 professional staff members and an intern. Organized student accounts involving billing and room assignments. Liaised with Student Accessibility Services, The Honors College and The Counseling Center.● Oriented students about undergraduate Residential Life & Housing’s values, policies and protocol through presentations and seminars increasing awareness and minimizing conflict.● Regularly met with new, current and transfer students regarding room change requests, as well as academic issues. Provided outside referrals to support student(s) with personal concerns unrelated to academia.● Addressed “high-level conduct” cases and action plans with staff on a weekly basis to ensure a safe environment for students and staff.● Analyzed and presented data to the dean from housing satisfaction survey through multiple years, noting trends and implementing change for an enhanced quality of life experience in the residence halls. Show less Led operations of residence hall that accommodated up to 600 students; identified, hired, trained and supervised 19 Resident Assistants (RAs) and one intern while also meeting regularly with students.● Reorganized the conduct process resulting in less repeat offender; less cases overall. Also adjusted the sanctions to be more educational and restorative opposed to punitive.● Drafted updated residential education curriculum, presented to RAs, on how to administer program assessments and learning outcomes, increasing student involvement with the campus and the residence hall community. Show less

  • Manager of Student Assignments

    Aug 2017 - Sept 2020

  • Residence Hall Director

    Jan 2014 - Aug 2017
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  Year Up

  Feb 2022 - now

  Internship Services Manager

  Supervise 40+ interns across multiple corporate accounts within the NY and NJ Area. Conduct biweekly 1:1s to ensure successful conversion, meet with corporate partners for evaluations of current interns, and present on a variety of learning and development topics. Also, work alongside a Learning Community as a coach and mentor to new students in the learning and development stage of their internship experience. ● Track, analyze and report out on performance status across internship portfolio and highlight key trends for consideration. ● Organize New Student Orientation for incoming internship classes which entails inviting multiple speakers, presenting, and answering any questions.● Manage the planning of the bi-annual internship matching process and as necessary, align program and corporate engagement colleagues in gathering key information required during the process. ● Meet with high level managers from multiple corporate organizations to discuss feedback, internship progression, and development plans. Show less

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  The Jed Foundation (JED)

  Jul 2023 - now

  Data Analyst