Enrollment and Advising Specialist, Decker College

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Job Description:

Budget

Title:

Senior Staff Assistant (SL-3)

Salary: $57,151

Binghamton University's Decker College of Nursing & Health Sciences, located at the health sciences campus in Johnson City, New York, is hiring a full-time Enrollment and Advising Specialist to join the Division of Advising & Academic Excellence to support students enrolled in exclusively online programs. The Enrollment and Advising Specialist will work collaboratively with Decker and Binghamton University faculty and staff to help students succeed academically and personally at Binghamton University, progress to graduation, and enhance the student experience.

Success in this role requires the capacity to thrive in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities include:

* Advising prospective, newly admitted, and current students

* Developing and maintaining a communication and check-in plan for assigned caseload of students

* Monitoring and responding quickly to early alert flags

* Monitoring progress toward degree for assigned caseload and making program adjustments whenever necessary

* Referring students to available on and off-campus support services

* Providing support for petition review and escalation

* Developing, planning, and participating in recruitment materials and events (some travel required)

* Creating and maintaining advising guides and transfer agreements

* Managing online program yield initiatives, including communication streams and calling projects

* Performing timely application review

* Managing transfer course equivalencies, evaluations, and articulations

* Facilitating timely degree conferral

* Serving on committees as assigned

* Maintaining thorough knowledge of degree requirements for current programs, including the University's General Education requirements and their application to each current and prospective student

* Effectively communicating with faculty, staff, students, and other departments to enhance the online student experience

* Assisting with the management of the shared email accounts

* Contributing to the maintenance of advising and academic information (electronic and print)

* Reading and sharing publications with advising staff to maintain knowledge about best practices in student advising

* Maintaining databases (such as Nursys and enrolled students)

The approximate allocation of time is:

* 50% Student advising (enrolled student caseload and prospective students)

* 25% Recruitment and yield initiatives (some travel required)

* 25% Administrative

Requirements:

* Bachelor's Degree (or higher)

* Demonstrated understanding of the role of academic advising in enhancing student learning, development, and outcomes

* Experience with public speaking and presentations

* Ability to effectively, professionally, and tactfully interact and communicate, both orally and in writing with students, faculty, staff and visitors

* Ability to maintain strict confidentiality

* Effective interpersonal skills

* Demonstrated understanding of and sensitivity to students' diverse socioeconomic, cultural, and developmental needs

* Organized, proactive and the ability to work independently as well, as collaboratively, within a team

* Valid driver's license to operate a vehicle in NYS

* Ability to work occasional evening and weekend hours.

Preferred:

* Master's degree in a field related to academic advising or healthcare

* Academic advising experience

* Experience supporting online or nontraditional students

* Experience with G Suite by Google,…