Housing Assistant

**Regular/Temporary**
- Temporary
- **Job Title**- Housing Assistant - Casual
- **Job ID**
- 72479
- **Location**- Central Campus
- **Open Date**
- 10/29/2025
- **Job Type**
- Casual
- **Close Date**
- 11/11/2025
- **Employee Group**
- Interim
- **Favorite Job**
- **Department**
- Housing Residences Central Adm
- **Contract Duration**
- 10 Months
- **Hours per Week**
- 20- **Posting Details**-
Housing and Conference Services (HCS) plays a vital role in supporting McMaster University’s mission to advance human and societal well-being and its overarching vision of educating for capability. We are committed to delivering a distinctive living and learning environment that prioritizes community building, personal development, academic success, wellness, and inclusion. HCS provides a transformative residential experience for approximately 3,900 students, with a focus on key educational priorities.
HCS concurrently drives a positive McMaster experience for guests, alumni, staff, faculty, and students by providing accommodation and event coordination, which meet the highest standards of service excellence. HCS is a proud and significant ancillary contributor to the financial health of the University and the core academic and research mission of McMaster.
HCS is currently undergoing a period of significant expansion, increasing capacity by 66% over the next several years. Moving from 3,900 to 6,000 bed spaces across 15 buildings. This growth will diversify the housing portfolio beyond its traditional focus on first-year undergraduate students to include upper-year, graduate, and family housing, as well as a constantly evolving internal and external client base.
The department operates with an annual pre-expansion budget of approximately $31 million and employs over 100 full-time and 250 part-time staff. HCS reports directly to both the Divisions of Student Affairs and Operations & Finance.
- The Housing Assistant will act as an ambassador of Housing and Conference Services. This position provides a visible and accessible front line presence in order to anticipate, understand and act upon all guest, resident and stakeholder needs on McMaster's Main Campus as well as the 10 Bay Street Graduate Residence location**. This role offers casual / on call shifts and must have some day shift, afternoon, and weekend availability.**
The Housing Assistant must have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and be willing to commit their efforts to delivering an outstanding experience for all guests at McMaster University. This position requires an individual who is self-motivated, takes intiative and is capable of functioning both independently and in a team setting. The Housing Assistant is professional, communicates effectively with others, and has a positive attitude. They are organized, detail oriented, and demonstrative creativity and sound problem solving skills.
This role acts as a support to residents, hotel & conference guests as well as our many partners at McMaster. An understanding of privacy and security are a necessity of the position.
** Job Summary**:

Performs a range of administrative duties and acts as primary contact for Housing and Conference Services. Responds to inquiries and provides information to students, parents and guests, or refers them to appropriate departments.
** Purpose and Key Functions**:

-- Receive and resolve student and guest concerns.
- Provide information to students and guests on filling out various forms and sign-in sheets.
- Gather and compile support materials for residence students and guests.
- Assemble and prepare outgoing mailings and packages.
- Write a variety of documents such as correspondence, guides, directions and instructions.
- Gather information and input data regarding requests for maintenance, repairs, and cleaning for residence facilities.
- Issue security access cards and keys to appropriate users based on established safety and security requirements.
- Monitor inventory of access cards and keys and references moving records to confirm accuracy.- Deactivate reported lost or stolen cards.
- Monitor alarms and contact security services to report issues.
- Monitor and reconcile cash transactions and prepare daily fund deposits.
- Calculate fees for guests and students attending conferences and staying in residence accommodations.
- Attend and participate in a variety of meetings.
- Inspect student rooms for damages. Track student damage charges.
- Use a voice recorder to transcribe information.
- Maintain filing systems, both electronic and hard copy.
- Conduct web searches for information on travel, entertainment, and other visitor inquiries.
- Update, maintain, and verify information in a variety of databases and spreadsheets.
- Contact security to report issues.
- Sort incoming mail.
- Maintain confidentiality of residence information.
** Requirements**:

Secondary School diploma. Requires 18 months of relevant experience.
** Assets**:

- Hamilton tourism a