Piedmont Triad, NC30+ days ago
Key Responsibilities: • Advising students interested in education abroad programs from the initial advising phase to return • Recruiting, advising, selecting, and conducting orientation for outbound education abroad students • Maintaining student exchange balances, administering travel grant programs, and coordinating transfer of credit • Maintaining the Terra Dotta platform for application and program management • Assisting in the development of promotional and informational materials, including web pages, social media sites, brochures, handbooks, and videos that enhance student advising • Providing insight on best practices in academic integration, diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, intercultural components, travel, and security, and risk management • Providing support to department liaisons and fostering peer-to-peer engagement among faculty liaisons • Developing workshops, presentations, and class visits • Supervising student assistants • Ensuring evaluations of all education abroad programs • Assisting with global agreements to build partnership relationships as needed • Implementing requisite administrative procedures. General Education Abroad Operations Essential Tasks • Supporting the Study Abroad and Exchanges team as an education abroad advisor as needed • In addition to working one-on-one in an advising role with students, the advisor will follow students all the way through the initial advising phase and continue as advisor through pre-departure and upon return and transfer of credit • The person will also be responsible for supporting all activities relating to education abroad, including recruiting, interviewing, selecting, and conducting orientation for outgoing education abroad students, as well as maintaining student exchange balances, administering the travel grant program, and coordinating transfer of credit • Assisting in the development of promotional and informational materials, including web pages, social media sites, brochures, handbooks, and videos that enhance student advising Percentage Of Time 30.