Lead Academic Advisor - Health and Public Safety Division

Lead Academic Advisor - Health and Public Safety Division

Overview:

The Lead Academic Advisor is responsible for managing the advising team within the Academic Division, providing guidance and oversight to the Division's part time advisors. The Lead Academic Advisor ensures the advising team employs a holistic, intrusive advising approach, using data analytics, to maximize students' credit momentum and academic success. The Lead Academic Advisor collaborates with the Program Chairs to ensure accurate advisement and seamless transition for students as they move towards advisement by the Program Chairs upon entering the program. The Lead Academic Advisor collaborates and support the College's recruitment, enrollment, and program events.

Essential Duties:

• Provides supervision and management to the Academic Division's advising team, including hiring and onboarding, coordinating schedules, training new advisors, evaluating advisor performance, organizing meetings and facilitating communication between Program Chairs and the advising team.
• Represents the Division on college-wide advising workgroups, committees, and other initiatives.
• Employs best practices of intrusive and holistic academic advising that results in student success and enrollment momentum.
• Assesses the development and personal growth of students in establishing realistic and attainable academic and career goals.
• Collaborates with administrators, faculty and staff to advise an ethnically, culturally, socially and economically diverse student population.
• Prepares and guides students through the selective admissions process.
• Advises students not selected through the selective admission process of academic options and alternatives.
• Monitors the academic progress of students toward degrees, certifications, and/or educational goals to identify current and potential needs or problem areas (i.e. study skills, tutoring) and refers students to appropriate campus resources for assistance.
• Presents, participates, and/or facilitates various campus activities and enrollment events as well as attends and/or engages with various members of the campus community in sharing nursing pathway information.
• Encourages students to engage in opportunities across campus relevant to their needs.
• Interprets and explains college policies and procedures.
• Participates in new student information sessions, presenting academic information to new students and parents.
• Provides updates to student files, databases, and records in accordance with federal guidelines (FERPA) and documents interactions with students, using systems prescribed such as StarFish.
• Supports data collection and analysis.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Academic advising experience
• Demonstrated understanding of student development theory and the purpose and advantages of the technical and general education, academic transfer, experiential and cooperative education and workforce development programs in the community college environment.
• Strong organizational, technological, and communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and advising management software such as Starfish.
• The ability to work collaboratively within the divisional team of experts while maintaining the primary focus on student success.
• Ability to work occasional evening or Saturday.
• Other duties as assigned.

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience working with allied health programs.
• Master's degree from an accredited institution.
• Two years college-level academic advising experience with ethnically, culturally, socially and economically diverse student populations.
• Experience with Datatel/Colleague, Informer, Starfish, and Tableau.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities.

Details:

Reports to: Dean, Health and Public Safety Division

Salary: $55,690.00/Year

Contractual Affiliation: Non-Bargaining

Exempt Classification: Exempt

Status: Full-time