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Job Description
90% - Academic Advising:
- Provide proactive and holistic academic advising to assigned undergraduate prospective, new, and currently enrolled students.
- Guide student progress through academic milestones, including enrollment, career exploration and graduation.
- Advise students on the development and selection of course schedules consistent with students' educational goals.
- Assist students in developing appropriate educational goals and work towards those goals.
- Assist students with completion of financial aid appeals, probation agreements, graduation plans, etc.
- Provide outreach to students as needed in addition to providing appropriate follow-up and referral to university offices and resources.
- Provide advisement to all students as necessary including those that may not be assigned to the advisor.
- Facilitate student enrollment and approval processes such as petitions, enrollment changes, appeals, and applications for graduation in compliance with appropriate deadlines and approval channels; provide appropriate referrals to university offices.
- If appropriate for assigned caseload, provide prospective student advising providing new student support from inquiry through application.
- Maintain program information, student communication strategies, and transcript and progress review to provide one-on-one guidance to students to meet program admission goals.
- Uses Jayhawk GPS, Enroll & Pay, Planner, and other relevant communication and advising tools for student application coaching, student enrollment, degree audit, course prerequisites, etc. Complies with FERPA. Manages a caseload of students with provided academic advising software and tools in a manner that is consistent with office metrics and milestones.
- Support University efforts geared toward increasing recruitment and retention.
- Responsible for knowledge of and compliance with Board of Regents and University policies regarding daily job-related activities applicable to the position.
- May be cross trained in the responsibilities of other academic advisors and in other academic departments.
- Participate in University orientation efforts.
- Perform programmatic duties that best serve the students and supports the office mission (on occasion during evenings or weekends).
- Serve as a liaison to a specific department, college or school and share resources and knowledge with other JAA staff. Where appropriate, interacts with faculty to provide an exchange of information and to enhance advisement of students.
- Attend divisional, departmental, college or school meetings at the discretion of supervisor to facilitate embedded advising model goals and to enhance advisement of students.
- Assume other duties as assigned which may include:
- Taking on special projects, serving on or leading committees, or fulfill a specific role of program responsibilities based upon the strengths and interests of the advisor and the needs of the office.
- Deliver programs that assist in recruitment, transition, or retention efforts.