Description

The Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University is currently accepting applications for an Academic Advisor.

About the Opportunity

This position advises students and is responsible for ensuring that students are equipped with enough information to matriculate through the higher education system in general and the college in specific. This position aids in the total development of students by providing them guidance in developing social, educational, and career goals; formulating intelligent objectives; and selecting appropriate and realistic academic majors.

We strongly believe in work-life balance and keeping time for things we love outside our work. WVU offers generous benefits, including:

• 37.5-hour work week
• 13 paid holidays (staff holiday calendar)
• 15 annual leave (vacation) days per year
• 18 sick days per year (for when you're ill, for when you need time to care for sick family, for your own, or your family's, regularly scheduled medical appointments. Who is family for the purpose of this leave? A lot of people in your life including immediate relatives and in-laws as well as others considered to be members of your household living under the same roof)
• WVU offers a range of health insurance and other benefits (this position is a benefits-eligible, non-classified staff position)
• 401(a) retirement savings with 6% employee contribution match, eligibility to continue health insurance, and other retiree perks. Looking for more retirement benefits information? Check out retirement health insurance benefits, retirement income, and FAQ's.
• Wellness programs

Pay grade:15

What you'll do:

• Plan, implement, and coordinate programming that includes, but is not limited to, multi-year initiatives and academic support services.
• Provide timely and effective academic counsel to assist students with selecting, matriculating to, and completing baccalaureate and professional degrees.
• Coordinate with the college career services center staff and central student services to assist students in selecting a major, identifying career pathways and building a professional profile for eventual placement.
• Provide advising and counseling to students who are on probationary, on deferred suspension or who have been reinstated after suspension.
• Develop and maintain curriculum for the mid-year academy for those students who are on probation.
• Develop and prepare a four- or five-year academic plan for each advisee and records plan in degree audit system (i.e. DegreeWorks). Tracks and monitors persistence and completion in accordance with academic plan and revises when necessary.
• Employ a combination of appreciative, developmental, intrusive, and prescriptive academic advising to assist students in persistence and completion of degree.
• Research and interpret the WVU Undergraduate Catalog and Statler College policies and procedures for the purpose of assisting students matriculating to degree programs, academic majors, and academic minors.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's degree, preferably in a STEM discipline
• One or more years experience:
  
  
  • Advising or counseling
  • Academic or student support services
• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Knowledge of student information systems (i.e. Banner, Student Success Collaborative Campus)
• Application of degree audit/planning tools (i.e. DegreeWorks)
• Expertise in different forms of academic advising (appreciative, developmental, intrusive, etc.)
• Professional oral and written communications
• Demonstrated ability to apply critical reasoning and problem solving
• Ability to employ interpersonal communications and conflict resolution
• Analytical skills prudent to conducting research
• Ability to teach young adults through formal and informal instruction
• Ability to handle sensitive information with confidentiality