"Academic Advisor, Pathways"

Job Details

Compensation Type: Salaried

Compensation: $51,101.40

Job Summary

The Academic Advisor - Pathways serves the critical role of being the primary point of contact from enrollment to completion for in-depth, wrap-around, holistic support that spans academic, career, and personal dimensions. The Advisor is responsible for developing strong relationships with individual students within their caseload, and through these relationships, the Advisor will provide sustained, strategic, integrated, proactive, and personalized support for students. This role also builds community and seeks to connect students with one another, fostering a strong sense of belonging.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Holistic & Proactive Program Advising

• Manages a caseload of students in an assigned academic pathway, with the goal of understanding and helping students progress through their educational journey to completion. Proactively communicates with students, providing announcements, weekly updates, information on pop-up visits, etc., to enhance the holistic student experience.
• Coaches students to develop academic, career, and financial plans that promote their success. Provides guidance to students on a range of academic matters, including academic programs, course selection, prerequisites, re-sequenced programs of study, and eligibility. This advising also covers the evaluation of transfer credit and transfer opportunities, and is available in person, by phone, via email, or virtually, depending on the student's needs.
• Coordinates student support and outreach with an identified network of care, including Financial Aid Advisors, Student Services staff, and community partners, to assist students having academic difficulties, including warnings, probation, and academic dismissal.
• Serves as the primary liaison between the advising department and faculty, facilitating curriculum and resource updates (including advising hub), assisting prospective students exploring majors within the designated Pathway, managing "deep dive" content, and coordinating with the Pathways Career liaison on resources and requests.

Academic and Career Coaching

• Provides high-level academic and career coaching to Pathways students. Provides individual support and group coaching for students in assigned caseload on topics related to goal setting, time management, study skills, and other relevant student success topics.

Programming and Student Engagement

• Actively plans and/or participates in student-centered programming. Participates in onboarding events for incoming students within assigned pathways. Contributes to the successful orientation of pathways students. Participates in summer engagement opportunities for returning students.

Administrative

• Completes and maintains required documentation, using technology and systems, including electronic case management tools, case notes, evaluation, test results, attendance, status reports, and other confidential student records to document support provided. Maintains confidentiality of student files and other sensitive subject matter.
• Reviews and interprets advising and related data, identifying trends and assisting the team in developing strategies to improve advising efficiency and quality. Prepares weekly advising reports for the Pathways Advising Director, Program Manager, and leadership team.

Culture of Respect

• Fosters and maintains a safe environment of respect and inclusion for faculty, staff, students, and members of the community.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in education, counseling, human services, or related field
• One (1) year of teaching, tutoring, and/or academic support experience in a college environment; can include work done in a graduate assistant role as professional experience
• State Motor Vehicle Operator's License or demonstrable ability to gain access to work site(s)

An appropriate combination of education, training, coursework, and experience may qualify a candidate.

Full Time/Part Time: Full time

Scheduled Hours: 40

Additional Information

In order to ensure your application is complete, you must complete the following:

• Please ensure you have all the necessary documents available when starting the application process. For all faculty positions (Instructor, Annually Contracted Faculty, and Adjunct), you will need to upload an unofficial copy of your transcript when completing your application.
• Prior to submitting your application, please review and update (if necessary) the information in your candidate profile as it will transfer to your application.

If you are a current employee of Columbus State Community College, please log in to Workday to use the internal application process.