Academic Advisor
SUNY Empire State University
Saratoga Springs, NY
Full-time
Education
Posted on April 28, 2024
About Empire State University:
Founded in 1971 as the innovative campus of the State University of New York (SUNY), Empire State University empowers learners from diverse backgrounds to achieve their educational goals. We have decades of experience providing educational access through online teaching and learning, individualized instruction, mentoring, and prior learning assessment. We build on our students' experiences to promote their growth and drive upward mobility and economic development in New York state and beyond. SUNY Empire's 97,000 alumni are teachers, nurses, entrepreneurs, and leaders in their communities and their fields. Visit www.sunyempire.edu and follow us on social media @SUNYEmpire.
SUNY Empire is committed to creating a multicultural, inclusive academic and work environment. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We believe that having diverse faculty and staff is critical to academic excellence and prepares students to live and work in an increasingly global world.
Job Description:
Empire State University seeks experienced and dedicated Academic Advisors (State Title: Academic Advisor) to provide academic advising services to our undergraduate students. Working as part of an experienced advising team, the successful candidates will develop expertise across a range of advising and mentoring activities in support of our students. These activities include transcript review, recommending appropriate courses, cultivating relationships with assigned students, referring students to appropriate university resources, and helping students build academic degree programs that align with their professional and personal goals.
Specific job duties include:
- Manage an active caseload of advisees from first enrollment to graduation, participating in proactive outreach and advisement.
- Develop and maintain mastery of the university's academic program requirements, policies, and procedures.
- Work closely with students to develop sound associate and/or bachelor's degree programs that are built around a student's academic, professional, and intellectual goals.
- Develop an understanding of, and guide students through, identification of university level prior learning that may be eligible for academic credit, following established university procedure.
- Teach sections of the university's course on Educational Planning to one's assigned advisees/mentees where applicable by program.
- Conduct unofficial transcript reviews for prospective students.
- Provide first term course advising to incoming students and collaborate with various departments and individuals to help promote first term enrollment.
- Participate in regularly scheduled meetings for department updates, team building, professional development, governance, and university development.
Requirements:
Required Qualifications:
- Master's Degree from a regionally accredited US university or comparable non-US university.
- A minimum of 2 years of professional experience in the higher educational setting with a role specific to academic advisement or student development.
- Excellent and effective communication and organizational skills.
- Ability to work within a collaborative academic environment with faculty and staff from multiple departments.
- Desire and skills to engage with undergraduate learners who may not regularly visit campus locations.
- Knowledge of adult learning, learning technologies and online pedagogies.
- Experience with computer databases and web-based communications platforms including Banner, CRM, or other data management and tracking tools.
- Previous college teaching experience, preferably in one of the academic disciplines offered in the School or Business or the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
- Prior knowledge of and experience working with bilingual and emergent bilingual learners, particularly in online settings.
- Prior experience working effectively with faculty, staff, and students from diverse linguistic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
- May involve occasional travel.
- Regular involvement in governance and committee work is expected.
- VISA sponsorship is not available for these positions.
- SUNY Empire provides employees with robust remote and flexible work options to meet the needs of students, faculty, and staff in a dispersed work environment. University locations that may be considered include Saratoga Springs, Rochester and Selden, NY.
Additional Information:
Rank/Salary: SL3 / $55,000
Empire State University is an EOE employer.
We are pleased to offer our employees an excellent benefit package which includes NYS health insurance, free dental and vision, competitive retirement options, and generous vacation, sick and holiday accruals; and a strong emphasis on work-life balance. We also offer professional-development activities for professionals and support staff.
IF YOU NEED A DISABILITY-RELATED ACCOMMODATION, PLEASE CALL THE ADA COORDINATOR AT (518) 587-2100, ext. 2240. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TITLE II CRIME AWARENESS AND SECURITY ACT, A COPY OF OUR CRIME STATISTICS IS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST BY CALLING (518) 587-2100, ext. 2800. IT CAN ALSO BE VIEWED ON-LINE AT THE SAFETY AND SECURITY WEBSITE AT www.sunyempire.edu/safety-security.
Application Instructions:
Applications Due By: Applications accepted until positions are filled.
If you are interested in applying for this position, please submit the following documents, which are required for consideration by clicking on the APPLY NOW button:
- Resume
- Cover letter
- Name and contact information of three references
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