Professional Academic Advisor
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Job Summary
The Office of Undergraduate Student Services at the Leeds School of Business encourages applications for a Professional Academic Advisor! The Advisor joins a team committed to supporting the education of the whole student and integrating student life with learning. In the process of generating and disseminating academic information and personalized requirements, we share knowledge through policies, practices, and programs for current students and their families, prospective students and their families, faculty, and other student affairs and academic affairs professionals campus wide. This position exists to educate the whole student through a developmental, student-focused approach. This includes individual, group, and electronic interactions that enhance academic success, promote personal and professional development, and foster a sense of community.
This position is one of the first-year advisors at CU Boulder who work in a collaborative team setting. First-year advisors work to support and educate students through a developmental, broad approach and are charged with developing and implementing advising strategies and interventions to enhance the performance and persistence of students, throughout their first year on campus and beyond, through the successful transition to their best-fit academic path.
Who We Are
At Leeds, we have an unprecedented vantage point, and while we’re located at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, we’re not talking about the scenery. Set in the heart of Boulder, Colorado—one of the nation’s most vibrant business communities—Leeds offers unparalleled access to world-changing entrepreneurs, national research institutions and award-winning faculty!
What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be
Academic Advising
This position works within the first year advising team and has an advising caseload comprised of first-year Leeds students.
- Advises students with a life design coach approach regarding academic requirements and co-curricular opportunities. Advising responsibilities include: evaluating incoming credit, creating customized degree plans, proactively providing student interventions, intrusive outreach, and design/delivery of required advising workshops. Advising may be done in person, on the phone/Zoom or via email. Having a student-focused developmental approach to advising is required, and an understanding of how career goals and opportunities impact academic decisions. Provide comprehensive advising support that focuses on exploration, discovery, goal-setting, and supportive connection.
- Proactively communicates with Leeds first-year faculty to identify and support at-risk students.
- Works with the Director and Assistant Director to develop and implement retention initiatives.
- Collaborates with Leeds Career Advisors on a comprehensive process of exploration and decision making.
- Must have an understanding of developmental and academic issues that first-year students face, and be able to support students’ transition to Leeds and CU Boulder.
- Actively oversee academic milestone progress and retention using Salesforce and other available student data. Monitor dashboards with integrated student success milestones and perform outreach/intervention when students are off track.
- Proactively track, contact, and work with special student populations (e.g., early alert, high-risk, first generation, students who have not been in for an appointment, students in academic difficulty, high-achieving students, etc.) Uses data to make informed decisions about interventions and program evaluation.
Teach BADM 1250 Designing Your Leeds
- Participate in annual Designing Your Leeds instructor training.
- Provide advising support and deliver advising module in multiple sections.
- Collaborate with instructor team on standard processes around teaching, grading, classroom management, etc.
- Must be knowledgeable about Design Thinking and experienced in teaching Life Design concepts.
- Hire and train a peer innovation coach to help facilitate in-class activities.
- This position will instruct a minimum of two sections of BADM 1250.
New Student Onboarding
- Manage summer advising for incoming students in caseload.
- Assist with developing advising related communication for incoming students and content for online orientation.
- Assist with development, coordination, and assessment of programming for Leeds new student welcome events, onboarding, and course enrollment process.
Program Administration
- This position works closely with the First Year Experience team on all initiatives that support student success.
- Support coordination of FYE programming including planning, marketing and execution of events.
- Collaborate with Leeds faculty to support student success.
- Participate in FYE team meetings and trainings.
Other Duties as Assigned
- Every position in the Undergraduate office will be called upon to help with various tasks such as orientation, graduation confirmation, commencement ceremony, academic alert and warning, advising non-business and prospective students, preparing and communicating oral presentations, training and mentoring new employees, and acting as an outreach resource to the rest of the campus or community. This position may assist with leading training and professional development activities for staff and may represent Leeds on departmental and university committees that relate to issues broader than their assigned caseload.
What You Should Know
- The schedule is typically Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm. An occasional evening or weekend day may be required (approximately 3 per semester).
What We Can Offer
- $54,060 - $55,000. Relocation is available within department guidelines.
Benefits
Be Statements
What We Require
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution. Equivalent combination of education and experience may substitute.
- One year of academic advising or related experience.
What You Will Need
- Proven effectiveness in strong written and oral communications.
- Ability to work both independently as well as on a team.
- Confident to tackle problems and create solutions.
- Outstanding interpersonal and relationship building skills.
- Demonstrated high-quality approach with providing customer service.
- Attention to detail and ability to multi-task.
- Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point).
- Promotes creating an inclusive environment to reflect our values and vision at Leeds.
- Willingness and skill in public speaking.
- Willingness to work in an environment which may demand some flexibility or evening work.
What We Would Like You to Have
- Master's Degree or equivalent experience in counseling, higher education, business, or a related field.
- Experience in career counseling.
- Experience with advising technology/programs (Degree Audit, Campus Solutions/PeopleSoft, Salesforce, TES).
- Experience teaching first year seminar course.
Special Instructions
- A current resume.
- A cover letter that specifically addresses how your background and experience align with the requirements, qualifications and responsibilities of the position.
Posting Contact Information
Posting Contact Name: Boulder Campus Human Resources
Posting Contact Email: Recruiting@colorado.edu