Student Success Advisor

Work Schedule:

General
Description:

Essential Functions and
Responsibilities:

• Maintain an advising caseload proportionate to number of advisors and incoming students, currently
  estimated at 150-200 per Student Success advisor, to provide professional advising and degree planning to students assigned to the Center
  for Student Success.
• Variable work hours to include evening and weekend hours to meet student needs and during peak days/weeks for
  the Center.
• Advise first-year and transfer students during registration periods.
• Assist with new student
  registration.
• Serves as a resource regarding advising and planning for PLU faculty and staff.
• Teach in the
  Student Success Course program as invited by FYEP.
• Help implement use of the advising syllabus.
• Support and interface
  with the SCN as reflected by student needs.
• Utilize the advising as teaching framework (helping students make meaning of
  the entire curriculum).
• Complete a series of consistent touch points with advisees each semester in order to assist in their
  transition (by connecting students with needed supports) and prepare them to select a major or a general academic interest area by the end
  of their first academic year..
• Create academic success plans for students in financial aid or GPA difficulty
  at PLU including providing alternative strategies and academic options.
• Understand, utilize, and collaborate with
  university offices and appropriately refer students to resources (learning support, mental health, physical health).
• Promotes
  timely degree completion through major exploration and multi-year planning.
• Creates and maintains records to keep track and support
  student progress and success.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and
Abilities:

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills and willingness to interact with students using a variety of
  methods (in-person, remote, working with faculty/staff who work with the student).
• A history of working with or a demonstrated
  commitment to students in all their diversity including race, gender, sexual orientation, disability and/or other issues of
  marginalization.
• High level of initiative and organizational ability.
• Good understanding of liberal arts education and
  PLU’s general education structure along with knowledge of all majors/minors and the degree-planning necessary to graduate
  from PLU in a timely manner.
• General understanding of student development theory and practice.
• Willingness to
  work in an ever-changing environment.
• Proficiency in word processing, spreadsheet, database applications and
  current PLU web-based apps.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Finalist applicants must satisfactorily complete pre-employment background checks.

Work Conditions:

• Office work.

Other Information: