Senior Academic Advisor, Enrollment Management

Job Overview

Advise current and prospective students about how to meet their educational, professional, and personal goals. May provide leadership for one or more student programs or services within a unit.

• Provide academic advising to facilitate students’ successful and timely educational planning and degree completion in alignment with their educational and career goals. Ensure accurate advice and quality support, contributing to persistence and a positive student experience. Please note, this position does not have an assigned caseload.
• Provide transition students (major changers, students transition between UC campuses, and non-matriculated students) with information regarding curriculum, policies, procedures, opportunities, and guidelines for academic programs.
• Evaluate student information and utilize data to facilitate enrollment and registration. Track office data regarding various student populations served by the Transition Advising Center.
• Evaluate student needs and provide appropriate resource referral to career, academic, counseling, and student life resources and opportunities.
• Support students through educational transition processes (e.g., orientation, exploration, and transition).
• Recommend actions related to program dismissals, re‑admission, course permissions, and other administrative policies and procedures.
• Utilize current advising and student success technologies for outreach to students.
• Serve as the lead for supporting senior audit students by providing strategic outreach and support while tracking the student progression through the registration process.
• Engage in ongoing professional development and training to maintain up‑to‑date knowledge about advising practices, policies, technologies, and student achievement needs at the university and in higher education.
• Function as a member of an advising team to ensure the proper workflow and outcomes of the unit. Collaborate with UC advising community colleagues to advance quality advising practice.
• May lead a programmatic area of oversight and planning for a student achievement program or function within a unit. Conceptualize, develop, implement, and evaluate the program. Train new academic advisors and other unit staff on key student service functions.
• Recommend policy to best meet student needs.
• Attend related meetings and functions.
• May teach one or more college‑level courses each year.
• May provide direct and/or indirect supervision to student workers and/or ambassadors (i.e., hiring, evaluation, disciplinary action, scheduling, etc.) May advise student organization groups.
• Perform related duties based on departmental need. This job description can be changed at any time.

Bachelor’s Degree

Three (3) years of academic advising

Master’s Degree

• Sitting
  - Continuously
• Repetitive hand motion (such as typing) - Continuously
• Hearing, listening
  - Continuously
• Talking
  - Continuously
• Standing
  - Often
• Walking
  - Often
• Reaching overhead
  - Seldom
• Pulling, pushing
  - Seldom
• Lifting - up to 20 pounds
  - Seldom

• Salary/Hourly Pay Rate Information: $53,240 - $56,350
• Comprehensive Tuition Remission: covers tuition costs for nearly all undergraduate and graduate programs offered by the university.
• Robust Retirement Plans: choice between state pension plans (OPERS, STRS) or an Alternative Retirement Plan (ARP). UC contributes 14–18% of salary based on position.
• Work‑life balance: generous time‑off policy, inclusive of vacation and sick time; 11 paid holidays and additional end‑of‑year paid time off (Winter Season Days); 6 weeks of paid parental leave for new parents.
• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription).
• Flexible spending accounts & wellness programs.
• Professional development & mentorship opportunities.

To apply you must create a profile and submit a complete job application through the UC applicant portal. We are unable to consider “easy apply” applications submitted via other websites. For questions about the UC recruiting process or to request accommodations with the application, please contact UC HR at jobs.

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UC is an E-Verify employer. If hired into this position, you will be required to provide satisfactory proof of employment eligibility by providing acceptable, original forms of identification for employment verification via the Federal I-9 employment verification process.

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