Student Success Advisor

The Student Success Advisor facilitate s student success by defining and implementing proactive strategies that help students stay on track to fulfill their educational goals. Advisors build supportive and personalized relationships with students and provide them with opportunities to stay connected to our educational community. They advise students on institutional policies and procedures, support students through academic and personal barriers s, and provide strategies and referrals to support their path towards graduation.

The Student Success Advisor work s closely with other institutional support teams to ensure that student inquiries are addressed in a timely and effective manner.

• Connect with new students to ensure overall readiness and accelerate outstanding matters that would affect their ability to have a smooth and successful start.
• Lead, organize, and plan new student onboarding and orientation processes for assigned population of students.
• Advise students on institutional policies and procedures, program requirements and related academic matters.
• Monitor attendance and engagement for assigned student population.
• Collaborate with Faculty Advisors, Program Directors, and appropriate university staff and faculty on any issues regarding student advisement.
• Provide comprehensive outreach to students who are at risk of not meeting satisfactory academic progress including follow up to those on midterm or other academic warning.
• Closely monitor students to proactively identify at-risk scenarios and identify opportunities to develop, implement, measure, and improve student success strategies.

• Working in collaboration with academic program leadership, contribute to the achievement of acceptable licensure pass rates, reducing fallbacks, and positive retention rates for the assigned program(s).

• Guide students to develop accountability for their decisions and an understanding of how those decisions impact their success.
• Empower students to maintain effective connections to the institution and its community of learners.
• Must be willing to work up to 10 hours per week outside of M-F 8a-5p in order to accommodate students’ needs.
• Support the student experience through collaboration with other support services including tutoring services, writing center, student wellness and accommodation services.
• Assist with the delivery of orientation, wellness initiatives, commencement, and enrollment events as needed.

May perform other duties and responsibilities that management may deem necessary from time to time.

REPORTS TO:

Asst. Director, Advising

POSITIONS SUPERVISED:
None

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Incumbents will be evaluated, in part, based on performance of each essential function. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience working in a service-oriented environment or educational setting.
• Master's degree in higher education, student affairs or related field required.
• Must have a strong commitment to education and have the counseling or coaching skills required to effectively keep students on track.
• Strong problem solving and time management skills.
• Ability to effectively multi-task.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Ability to successfully resolve student issues from request through escalation and or…