Mentor​/Advisor Specialist

Mentor/Advisor Specialist

Position Title:

Mentor/Advisor Specialist

State:
Wisconsin

Employment Status:
Part Time

Position Status:
Limited Term

End Date of Assignment, Project, or Grant: 07/31/2027

Position Type:
Staff

Job Family:
Student Support, Advising, and Career Development

# Hours Per Week: 20

Position Overview:

Be The Difference Begins with Great People. Are you looking for a new opportunity where you can make the difference in the lives of students and faculty? We're always looking for highly talented individuals to join our team – people who think big, care deeply, and believe in being the difference in their work and community. We prioritize student success, access to education, and service in our work to educate well-rounded servant leaders who transform their fields, our society and the world.

Our Catholic, Jesuit approach emphasizes student engagement with the world around them and formation of the heart and mind. We believe in our mission:
The search for truth, the discovery and sharing of knowledge, the fostering of personal and professional excellence, the promotion of a life of faith, and the development of leadership expressed in service to others. These core values guide our relationships with our students, each other, and our community. Marquette University offers a rich and competitive Total Rewards package including medical, dental, vision, 403(b) with up to 8% university match, generous time off package, and tuition benefits for employees, spouses, and dependents with no payback requirement!

For more information, please view our Total Rewards guide. This is your next opportunity to join an organization that invests in their employees' career journey by diversifying their skills, deepening their expert knowledge, encouraging a healthy work-life balance, focusing on personal wellbeing, providing leadership training, and sustaining a culture of respect and inclusion.

The Mentor/Advisor Specialist (MAS) serves as mentor/advisor for students in the Project-Beyond-2 (PB2) program. Additionally, the MAS in this position supports structured project and peer mentoring activities for project participants and community partners in the PB-2 Program. The PB2 program functions to recruit, retain, and graduate nursing students from disadvantaged and underrepresented minority (URM) backgrounds to improve health workforce diversity. The role will include monitoring, tracking, and maintaining accurate records of all mentoring activities and student project participants' academic records.

The objectives of this job include fostering recruitment, retention, academic success, and graduation of disadvantaged and under represented minority (URM) nursing students to improve health workforce diversity. Additionally, the MAS will support a pre-admission intensive program and structured academic and leadership activities for incoming disadvantaged and URM nursing students.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Provide individual advising and mentoring for project participants
2. Support professional nurse mentoring program for project participants (PP) 3. Coordinate structured activities for project participants
4. Support summer Preadmission Intensive Program for incoming freshmen
5. Conduct group & one-to-one mentoring training sessions for project participants and mentors
6. Track mentoring activities, including peer mentoring, & maintain a mentor-mentee network
7. Link students with professional minority nursing organizations and community partners
8. Coordinate and keep records of structured activities for BSN participants (BSNPP) 9. Coordinate and keep records of efforts made in addressing social determinants of education & health (SDE/SDH) 10. Support summer Preliminary Academic Intensive (PAI)…