Senior Academic Advisor - School of Arts and Sciences

The professionals in Undergraduate Education foster student growth, empowerment, and success by serving, advising, guiding, nurturing, and celebrating our students, and working with them and our faculty to solve problems so that students may successfully navigate the university. We focus on the academic aspect of students’ lives at Tufts, providing information, advice, and support to help them successfully complete their degrees in a timely manner while ensuring that our students have an enriching and rewarding academic experience.

To that end, we provide students with tutoring, advising, academic support, direction, and accurate information. We also provide academic enrichment programs and opportunities so that students may reach their full potential and achieve their best. We collaborate with faculty and other departments to advocate for students and improve the academic experience for all students as well as the policies governing undergraduate study at Tufts.

• Counsels and advises students on academic program including course selection and requirements for majors and areas of concentration; develops and provides expertise on a disciplinary group of majors
  • Assists students in making appropriate educational choices and decisions
  • Provides advice and coordination with Career Services for research, internship and employment opportunities.
  • Provides advice and resources for study abroad.
  • Conducts group information sessions as well as individual counseling
  • Collaborates with and identifies University resources to support student and faculty advising
  • Guide students as they adjust to college life and learning and help navigate university policies and procedures.
• Manages advising for special student constituency or program area.
• Support curriculum-based advising of undecided students.
• Collaborates with the office of the Dean of Student Life to proactively identify students of concern
  • Maintains discretion and student privacy when communicating with faculty, staff, and other students
• Deploys resources (web, print, personnel) to better communicate academic policies
  • Maintains and updates text for school section of Tufts Bulletin
  • Writes and updates orientation materials and documentation
• Reviews and approve student petitions, forms
  • Conducts degree certification with student records team
  • Creates and distributes reports for faculty and administration
  • Works with technology services to streamline review processes (degree certification, academic standing, internal transfer) and to move toward digital student records
  • Works with technology services to implement and verify SIS rules changes related to new credit system
• Works with technology services to streamline review processes (degree certification, academic standing, internal transfer) and to move toward digital student records
  • Works with technology services to implement and verify SIS rules changes related to new credit system

Knowledge and experience typically acquired by:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 2 or more years’ experience in college or university setting as an instructor, advisor, tutor, mentor or administrator
• Commitment to advising, mentoring, and guiding college students
• Superior interpersonal skills, including flexibility and approachability
• Excellent skills in written and oral communication; able to write, edit, and proofread educational documents and other publications. Confidence and experience in teaching, public speaking, or giving effective presentations before large groups
• Proficient with technology, including various software programs and applications for writing documents, making spreadsheets, creating databases, producing brochures and slideshows, and communicating through web-based audio-video services
• Ability…