Academic Advisor

Bryant & Stratton College; Hampton (VA); On-site; USD 47,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Bryant & Stratton College in Hampton, VA is seeking a full-time Academic Advisor to sustain an environment of academic and professional excellence by supporting students and the educational team. The advisor advocates for students, provides coaching, customer service, and campus referrals.

You will meet with advisees, discuss curriculum and registration, monitor outcomes for compliance, and help students build academic and career plans. Strong communication and interpersonal skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills with faculty, staff and student populations.
• Understand open‑ended questioning, non‑verbal communication and active listening.
• Presentation and public speaking skills.
• Strong computer and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain direct and proactive contact with student advisees.
• Convey curriculum, course sequencing, registration, and financial responsibilities.
• Monitor program outcomes for compliance with the Official College Catalog.
• Teach and model decision‑making and problem solving to help students become self‑advocates.
• Schedule regular campus visits to engage with students and build relationships.
• Utilize advisement theories to improve student readiness and outcomes.
• Maintain relationships with admissions, financial aid and faculty.
• Uphold processes and programs supporting student cohorts.
• Support curricular and co‑curricular involvement through referrals and opportunities.
• Participate in orientation and other student services duties as assigned.
• Maintain knowledge of advisement practices through professional associations.

Skills

Strong communication

Interpersonal skills

Active listening

Presentation skills

Computer skills

Job description

The Hampton Roads Market is seeking a full-time Academic Advisor. The Academic Advisor will be responsible for sustaining an environment of academic and professional excellence for students and educational team members. The Academic Advisor supports students and learning through student advocacy, academic coaching, customer service, and campus and community referrals. The Academic Advisor works closely with all campus departments utilizing BSC’s personalized education approach to support student success and retention endeavors.

• Maintain direct and proactive contact with student advisees. This includes meeting with individuals as well as small groups on an ongoing basis to build rapport, identify barriers to success, set, and review (and revise when necessary) academic and career goals and develop action plans for related success.
• Convey to and discuss with students, the necessary aspects of curriculum, course sequencing, academic status, registration, financial responsibility related to educational loans and the importance of long‑term career and academic planning.
• Monitor program outcomes and requirements to ensure compliance with the Official College Catalog and to assure current knowledge of program offerings from a career and employment perspective.
• Teach and model decision‑making and problem solving skills to help students to become their own self‑advocates and make independent, informed decisions regarding their academic and career future.
• Schedule regular campus presence visits to hallways, student lounge and classrooms to proactively reach out to students and elicit regular and purposeful conversations to build student relationships, help student to affiliate with the College and to respond to emerging concerns.
• Utilize and know when and where to apply appropriate academic advisement theories to help students strengthen their academic and career readiness skills and abilities.
• Maintain professional relationships with admissions representatives, financial aid representatives and faculty to assure that they are easily accessible when needed to help address a student related concern.
• Uphold processes, programs, activities or workshops that support student cohorts such as new students, Former Students Returning (FSR), At‑risk students, Transfer students, Military students and other special populations.
• Support curricular and co‑curricular involvement through referral, participation and advertisement of available opportunities to students.
• Participate in the coordination of new student orientation, new student reception, transition teams, First Year Experience, Portfolio Development Days, graduation, and other campus/department activities and other academic/advisement/student services duties as assigned by the Dean.
• Maintain knowledge of current advisement practices through participation in professional advisement associations and maintaining commitment to regular review of scholarly academic reading within the advisement discipline.
• Maintain an active professional (electronic) advisement portfolio.

Skills

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with faculty, staff and student populations
• Understand open‑ended questioning, non‑verbal communication and active listening
• Presentation and public speaking skills
• Strong computer and analytical skills

Abilities

• Ability to work independently or in a team. Interact effectively and work collaboratively with other departments.
• Ability to listen and positively respond to student and co‑worker requests.
• Ability to exercise judgment in the application of college policies and procedures.
• Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, or schedule form.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks, adapt to changing assignments and successfully meet deadlines.

SALARY :

$47,000-50,000 (salary range)

This position is eligible for overtime.

Please note that the compensation information is a good faith estimate of the base pay for this position. The selected candidate’s actual base pay for this role will take into account a wide range of non‑discriminatory factors including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. At Bryant & Stratton College, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Information about the total compensation package for this position will be provided during the interview process.

Bryant & Stratton College is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Preferred

• Team Player Novice
• Multitasking Novice
• Flexible Novice

Required

• Enthusiastic : Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest
• Detail Oriented : Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well

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