Temporary Full-Time Advisor
Schoolcraft
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Job summary
Schoolcraft College invites applications for an Advising position on the Livonia, MI campus. This temporary full-time role supports new, current, and former students, delivering academic and career advising and helping students navigate transfer pathways.
The successful candidate will work 40 hours per week, on-site, with a focus on student advocacy, applying development theories, and collaborating with faculty and college departments to promote student success.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university.
- Demonstrated communication skills.
- Demonstrated student advocacy.
- Understanding of student development theories and models.
Responsibilities
- Use the academic advising best practices to build relationships with students to increase student persistence, retention, certificate/degree completion and successful transfer.
- Provide career advising to students and utilize Schoolcraft approved career assessment tools (e.g., Career Coach), as an integral tool to support career selection, during the appropriately scheduled advising appointment.
- Assists students in interpreting assessment results and high school transcripts or other external transcripts with regard to course selection.
- Inform students of restricted enrollment application processes.
- Provide students with information about college supported resources (e.g., orientation, student email, WebAdvisor, and Blackboard).
- Create and update academic and transfer plans when needed.
- Track the academic progress for all assigned students through the student planning tool.
- Perform outreach to students minimally twice per fall and Winter semesters and minimally once per Spring and Summer session.
- Assist students with transitioning to college and understanding applicable Schoolcraft College policies and procedures.
- Develop and advise students about student success plan.
- Serve as a student advocate, acting as liaison among students, faculty, college departments, and community resources.
- Document interactions with students as they pertain to advising
- Attend training, Advising and Transfer meetings, and other assigned meetings and college events, unless excused by the designated administrator, or use of a leave day, and as agreed to by the Advisor for events that occur outside working hours. Applicable notes will be shared with the other advisors and designated administrators within two weeks of attendance.
- Participate in pertinent growth activities, conferences, and organizations such as MIACADA or NACADA conferences as approved by the designated administrator.
- Attend and participate in transfer information events hosted by colleges and universities as approved by the designated administrator.
- Take thorough notes and share them with the other Advisors
- Consult with teaching faculty, instructional administrators, and other appropriate staff regularly for information exchange and rapport building.
Skills
Education
Job description
The Advisors report to the designated administrator. Student populations served by Advisors include new, current, or former students. This will be temporary full-time employment for up to one (1) year. The hours will be 8:30-5:00pm, Monday through Friday, and work will be in-person from our Livonia, MI campus. Schoolcraft is a comprehensive, open-door, community-based college. The mission of the College is to provide a transformational learning experience designed to increase the capacity of individuals and groups to achieve intellectual, social, and economic goals.
- Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university.
- Demonstrated communication skills.
- Demonstrated student advocacy.
- Understanding of student development theories and models.
- Master’s degree in student personnel, higher education, educational, or comparable.
- Experience in student services at a community college.
- Academic advising experience at a community college or four-year university.
Schoolcraft College is an AA/ EEO Employer.
- In-Person: This position requires the employee to be onsite at Schoolcraft College.
- Writing Skills: Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations.
- Communication Skills: Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from prospective and current employees, and groups of managers.
- Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide with all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percentage and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
- Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Office Environment: This role may involve being in a stationary position in front of a computer, using a keyboard, mouse (or applicable equipment) and telephone. Communicating and exchanging information with individuals electronically or in person. This role may also involve standing and walking for periods of time, and the use of hands and moving objects on occasion, of up to 10 lbs.
- Noise Level: The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Work Hours 40 hours/week
Salary $30.37-$46.96/hour, per Faculty Contract
Job Duty Name
Job Duty Name 1
Description of Job Duty
Use the academic advising best practices to build relationships with students to increase student persistence, retention, certificate/degree completion and successful transfer.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of Time
Job Duty Name
Job Duty Name 2
Description of Job Duty
Provide career advising to students and utilize Schoolcraft approved career assessment tools (e.g., Career Coach), as an integral tool to support career selection, during the appropriately scheduled advising appointment.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of Time
Job Duty Name
Job Duty Name 3
Description of Job Duty
Assists students in interpreting assessment results and high school transcripts or other external transcripts with regard to course selection.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of Time
Job Duty Name
Job Duty Name 4
Description of Job Duty
Inform students of restricted enrollment application processes.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of Time
Job Duty Name
Job Duty Name 5
Description of Job Duty
Provide students with information about college supported resources (e.g., orientation, student email, WebAdvisor, and Blackboard).
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of Time
Job Duty Name
Job Duty Name 6
Description of Job Duty
Create and update academic and transfer plans when needed.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of Time
Job Duty Name
Job Duty Name 7
Description of Job Duty
Track the academic progress for all assigned students through the student planning tool.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of Time
Job Duty Name
Job Duty Name 8
Description of Job Duty
Perform outreach to students minimally twice per fall and Winter semesters and minimally once per Spring and Summer session.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of Time
Job Duty Name
Job Duty Name 9
Description of Job Duty
Assist students with transitioning to college and understanding applicable Schoolcraft College policies and procedures.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of Time
Job Duty Name
Job Duty Name 10
Description of Job Duty
Develop and advise students about student success plan.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of Time
Job Duty Name
Job Duty Name 11
Description of Job Duty
Serve as a student advocate, acting as liaison among students, faculty, college departments, and community resources.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of Time
Job Duty Name
Job Duty Name 12
Description of Job Duty
Document interactions with students as they pertain to advising
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of Time
Job Duty Name
Job Duty Name 13
Description of Job Duty
Attend training, Advising and Transfer meetings, and other assigned meetings and college events, unless excused by the designated administrator, or use of a leave day, and as agreed to by the Advisor for events that occur outside working hours. Applicable notes will be shared with the other advisors and designated administrators within two weeks of attendance.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of Time
Job Duty Name
Job Duty Name 14
Description of Job Duty
Participate in pertinent growth activities, conferences, and organizations such as MIACADA or NACADA conferences as approved by the designated administrator.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of Time
Job Duty Name
Job Duty Name 15
Description of Job Duty
Attend and participate in transfer information events hosted by colleges and universities as approved by the designated administrator.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of Time
Job Duty Name
Job Duty Name 16
Description of Job Duty
Take thorough notes and share them with the other Advisors
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of Time
Job Duty Name
Job Duty 17
Description of Job Duty
Consult with teaching faculty, instructional administrators, and other appropriate staff regularly for information exchange and rapport building.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of Time
Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).
- * Do you have a bachelor's degree?
- Yes
- No
- * Do you have a working understanding of student development theories and models?
- Yes
- No
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