Assistant Director​/Honors Advisor, Academic Affairs University Honors Scholars Program

Position: Assistant Director / Honors Advisor, Academic Affairs University Honors Scholars Program
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Job Title:

Assistant Director / Honors Advisor, Academic Affairs University Honors Scholars Program

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Start Date:

7/16/26

Work Arrangement:
Hybrid

Current UC employees must apply internally via Success Factors

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Job Overview

Mentor and coach current University Honors Program (UHP) students through their experience, guiding students in identifying interests and opportunities, setting goals, reflecting on experiences, and telling their stories. Assist in developing global citizen scholars who lead innovative efforts toward solving the world's complex problems.

Essential Functions

* Serve as advisor/mentor/coach for 300-350 UHP students in specific disciplines. Integrate UHP vision, student learning outcomes, and Bearcat Promise into all engagement with students. Advise students and help them feel welcome in the UHP. Facilitate mandatory first-year, mid-point, and final-year advising.

* Coach students in exploring the meaning of global citizen scholar and complex problems they want to contribute to solving. Guide students in critical reflection to identify and articulate their goals and coach students in identifying honors experiences to achieve them. Mentor students in updating their goals as they move through their UC and UHP experience. Coach students in developing resiliency and reflective capacity to make sense of their growth and apply their learning.

Integrate the Bearcat Promise by coaching students to critically reflect on and make meaning out of their experiences, articulate their learning, inform their next steps, and share their story (written, verbally, and through their honors learning portfolio).

* Mentor students through completing UHP requirements, including individualized planning for honors experiences, development and completion of self-designed honors experience proposals, review and feedback on required reflections on honors experiences, review of honors experience showcases in learning portfolios, ongoing holistic development of each student's learning portfolio, and review and feedback on each student's annual Year-In-Review. Complete a formal progress review for every student each summer.

Keep detailed records of communication with students in UHP database.

* Develop collaborative relationships with stakeholders from colleges and units across campus to increase opportunities for students and success of students in UHP. Focus on increasing honors opportunities and UHP retention and graduation rates for students in assigned colleges. Notify students of specific honors opportunities related to their colleges/majors. Facilitate connections and networking for students across campus and in the community.

* Manage short-term and long-term projects, as assigned. Projects include: managing the Biomedical Research and Mentoring Program, managing UHP Discover research program, managing the UHP Welcome Experience, managing UHP signature programs, managing UHP engagement in Bearcats Bound Orientation, managing pre-approved honors experiences,…