Lead Academic Advisor

Office Location
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
1201 W. University Drive
Human Resources
MASS Building 2 nd Floor
Edinburg, TX 78539

Edinburg:
Brownsville:
Office hours:
Monday-Friday
8:00a.m.

- 5:00p.m.

Faculty Recruitment:
College of Engineering & Computer Science: cecs

Robert

C. Vackar College of Business & Entrepreneurship: cobe

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Posting Number SRGV
9169

Working Title LEAD ACADEMIC ADVISOR

Number of Vacancies 1

Location Edinburg, Texas

Department Academic Advising Center

FTE 1

FLSA Exempt

Provides leadership, professional development, and supervision for academic advising staff while maintaining an advising student caseload. Analyzes data from currently adopted solutions to monitor and evaluate the progress of target student populations.

• Provides informative and collaborative academic advising for assigned student populations as well as assists Academic Advisors in complex cases.
• Teaches students strategies related to academic planning and monitoring, major selection, and academic success.
• Provides extensive and/or complex advising to assist students in self-evaluation and choosing a major in relation to their career and life goals.
• Manages the process of planning, implementing, and evaluating interventions for targeted populations.
• Supervises and mentors’ staff within their assigned area. Develops specialized trainings as needed.
• Collaborates with colleges and departments to develop advising tools and resources related to major selection, academic planning and academic success based on up-to-date degree plans and admission/graduation policies and criteria.
• Organizes and analyzes data from adopted technologies to monitor student progress toward completion.
• Develops, provides and coordinates presentations for orientations, trainings, university events and activities regarding academic advising, retention initiatives, mentoring and academic success.
• Maintains a working knowledge of best practices in advising for retention and timely progress to degree.
• Staff who have been approved to be assigned to a department other than Academic Advising will attend all advising staff meetings and trainings, offer services in alignment with, and will have a dotted reporting line back to the centralized department.
• Participates in professional development programming, assessment, and mentoring opportunities to enhance skills and knowledge in academic advisement and related fields.
• Coordinates special advising programs and initiatives.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

General supervision from assigned supervisor.

Direct supervision of assigned staff.

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university.

Master’s degree from an accredited university.

None.

Three (3) years of experience in academic advising or other closely related student service experience in a higher education setting.

Experience leading teams of and/or initiatives in a higher education setting.

Use of standard office equipment.

Needs to be able to successfully perform all required duties. Office Environment; some travel and weekend work is required. UTRGV is a distributed institution, which requires presence at multiple locations throughout the Rio Grande Valley. Work is performed primarily in a general office environment across the Rio Grande Valley.

Ability to use computers for word processing, calendar sharing, emailing, accessing student academic information. Ability to successfully collaborate with faculty,…