What are the responsibilities and job description for the Academic Advisor position at Northern VA Community College?
Title: Academic Advisor
Agency: Northern VA Community College
Location: Loudoun - 107
FLSA: Exempt
Hiring Range: $58,656 - $65,000
Full Time or Part Time: Full Time
Additional Detail
Job Description:
General Description:
The Academic Advisor will provide guidance to NOVA students about academic, transfer, career/workforce, and student development issues, needs, or experiences.
Duties and Tasks:
The Academic Advisor will provide guidance to NOVA students about academic, transfer, career/workforce, and student development issues, needs, or experiences.
Duties and Tasks:
- Provide academic planning and advising guidance to current, returning, and prospective NOVA students in-person, via phone, virtual face-to-face meeting, chat, and email.
- Manage a caseload of students to support the achievement of the students’ goals including, but not limited to, ensuring proper program placement, successful enrollment, course completion, retention, graduation, transfer and/or job placement.
- Conduct assessments of students’ needs to make referrals to supports and services.
- Facilitate programs and workshops to support academic planning and advising.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required KSA’s:
- Knowledge of academic planning, course scheduling, transfer, career and student development advising.
- Knowledge of college readiness research, persistence/retention and completion research and best practices for traditional and non-traditional students.
- Knowledge or awareness of trends in higher education, with a particular emphasis on community college trends.
- Skill in providing academic, career, and/or personal counseling to adolescents and adults.
- Clearly articulated oral and written communication.
- Skill in written communication, including the development of letters, memos, presentations, and course materials.
- Skill in oral communication, including large and small group presentations and/or class lectures.
- Skill in case management, including tracking of student caseload and the collection and reporting of data.
- Proficiently skilled in computer usage, including Microsoft Office, e-mail, PeopleSoft Student Information System, Adobe Acrobat Reader, and researching information online.
- Ability to independently plan and coordinate a variety of programs and projects.
- Ability to understand and interpret campus and program policies and regulations.
- Ability to maintain a professional demeanor respectful of diversity and multiculturalism.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Ability to maintain a professional approach to working with students, families, faculty, and staff.
- Ability to respond creatively and flexibly to changing needs and conditions.
- Ability to work occasionally at and travel regularly to various NOVA campuses.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with college personnel, including administrators, counselors, and staff.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a diverse student population.
- Availability to work required weekly evening and occasional weekend hours.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Experience in a college setting in an advising or student services capacity.
- Experience in computer literacy, video conferencing, Google Applications, MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint.
- Experience using a higher education learning management system (i.e., Blackboard, CANVAS, etc.).
- Must be able to travel to all NOVA campuses (this is not a remote position).
Additional Considerations:
- Prior advising experience.
- Experience working with student information systems (i.e., PeopleSoft, BANNER, etc.).
- Bilingual proficiency.
Each agency within the Commonwealth of Virginia is dedicated to recruiting, supporting, and maintaining a competent and diverse work force. Equal Opportunity Employer
Salary : $58,656 - $65,000
