Senior Academic Advisor, Transition and Transfer

Incoming Student Support

• Use extensive knowledge and experience to serve as a frontline contact and dedicated guide to build meaningful, formative relationships that empower incoming students, drive engagement, and support personal and academic success.
• Simplify and convey to students complex information that contributes directly to their improved retention, successful university transition from initial engagement to orientation, integration into academic college, and graduation.
• Evaluate transfer credit to determine how prior coursework meets degree requirements and provide clarification on procedures and requirements of programs or majors.

Continuing Student Support

• Support current students by helping them set realistic academic and career goals, choose appropriate courses, and explore majors and minors.
• Monitor progress toward degree completion, advise on satisfying requirements, and assist students facing academic challenges through action plans and resource referrals.
• Sustain student success by identifying current and potential needs or problem areas and guide them through their decisions, including the possible outcomes and implications of their choices.

Institutional Coordination

• Serve on university committees or similar as a subject matter expert to initiate change and resolve transfer and transition related academic issues.
• Work to influence others within the outside of advising and the Division of Undergraduate Education regarding policies, practices, and processes.
• Communicate, collaborate, and coordinate efforts across colleges with leadership, external partners such as AZTransfer, and other key stakeholders such as Enrollment Management.

Professional Development

• Lead transition and transfer professional development efforts on campus by building and delivering training, developing specialized programs, guiding or mentoring staff and advising personnel.
• Improve advising practices by staying current on institutional policies and national best practices to enhance student success.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, improvement, and innovation around transition and transfer advising.

Additional Duties as Assigned

• Work closely and collaboratively with leadership to administer, facilitate, and/or coordinate assigned programs and projects that accomplish Undergraduate Education''s priorities.
• Improving four-year graduation rates.
• Closing attainment gaps.
• Improving communication and collaboration among units in support of undergraduate student academic success.
• Defining and curating impactful and sustainable academic programs for undergraduate students.
• Reducing bureaucratic complexity experiences by students.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Effective academic advising abilities through being able to effectively communicate relevant content to transfer students and apply a strong understanding of transfer articulation advising to support desired academic and career outcomes.
• Knowledge of student development theory and understanding the development of students as they progress through an undergraduate degree.
• Flexibility and adaptability skills to solve complex problems working through the ambiguity with new approaches, methods, or techniques requiring innovation and creativity.
• Skills in working proactively without appreciable direction, exercising considerable latitude to support students as needed, consulting with supervisor in highly unusual or complex situations, or for sound judgment and accuracy.
• Effective communication skills to support different individuals to foster campus connections and coordinate undergraduate advising efforts.
• Time management skills to manage projects under pressure, ensuring that deliverables are completed on time while maintaining high quality standards.
• Ability to be tactful and practice discretion while handling confidential and sensitive information, including under the Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act (FERPA).