Senior Academic Advisor, Center Student Success

Academic Advisor/Senior Academic Advisor, COM Center for Student Success

Job Overview:
The College of Medicine Center for Student Success is seeking an Academic Advisor/Senior Academic Advisor to work with Medical Sciences undergraduate students, staff, and faculty to meet the program’s objectives. The Center for Student Success (CSS) identifies and recruits a student body of future leaders in clinical practice (including medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and other healthcare professions), medical research, and public health.

The selected candidate will provide academic advising, intervention, support services, and programming to students. The position requires a high degree of accountability, responsibility, a student‑centric approach, and a collaborative mindset, and involves exercising sound judgment with students, faculty, staff, administrative personnel, and parents.

• Advise both in person and online current and prospective students on how to meet their educational and career goals through best practices in advising and appropriate referrals to student support services.
• Create academic plans, maintain accurate and up‑to‑date student records, meet with students to assess and discuss progress, and support students in meeting COM Undergraduate Program requirements.
• Evaluate student information and utilize data to facilitate enrollment and registration.
• In partnership with faculty, assess advanced standing credit, substitute courses to meet graduation requirements, create degree audit exceptions, and facilitate and/or complete degree certification.
• Give presentations to various classes and populations, provide new student advising at orientation, and may give admissions presentations to prospective program applicants.
• Work closely with faculty and staff on programmatic and student issues.
• Engage in ongoing professional development and training at UC and through professional organizations to maintain up‑to‑date knowledge about advising practices, policies, technologies, and student success needs at the university and in higher education.
• Function as a member of the Center for Student Success team to ensure proper workflow and outcomes.
• Collaborate with UC advising community colleagues to advance quality advising practice.
• 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, including hiring, evaluation, disciplinary action, scheduling, etc., and may advise student organization groups.
• May lead a programmatic area of oversight and planning for a student success program or function within the Center for Student Success; conceptualize, develop, implement, and evaluate the program; and train new academic advisors and other unit staff on key student service functions.
• The Advisor must be detail‑oriented and have strong interpersonal communication and problem‑solving skills, retain a high volume of programmatic, college, and university‑related information, and critically think through complex situations.

Required

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree

Required Experience:

Zero to one year of student service or related experience.

Required

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree

Required Experience:

Three 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

UC offers an exceptional benefits package designed to support your well‑being, financial security, and work‑life balance.

Salary/Hourly Pay Rate Information are based on experience.

Comprehensive Tuition Remission: UC provides tuition remission for you and your eligible dependents, covering tuition costs for nearly all undergraduate and graduate programs offered by the university.

Robust Retirement Plans:
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