Assistant Dean for Administrative Advising

Accountabilities:

• ensuring students receive effective support while promoting the development of self-advocacy and problem-solving skills;
• articulating an advising approach that encourages students to achieve a sense of responsibility for their personal growth and academic success; a firm and fair approach is required;
• effective outreach to students and proactively ensuring students have access to high quality, consistent, accurate and timely advice regarding University policies and procedures and other academic regulations, deadlines, and processes;
• execution of crisis response consistent with policy and plan;
• understanding student needs and collaborating with other stakeholders and resource providers to make these needs known; and
• accurate capture and maintenance of records relating to student interactions, including advising notes;
• serve on academic-related standing committees;
• participating in the after-hours on-call rotation with other deans in the Dean of the College Division (approximately one-two weeks per semester);
• adherence to University budget practices; and;
• serving on other Divisional committees as requested.

Professional Experience/Qualifications:

• Professional experience in a higher education setting;
• Demonstrated strong sense of ethics and sound decision-making skills, exhibits mature judgment and capacity to maintain confidentiality;
• Demonstrated capacity to work as an effective collaborator with students, staff, and faculty;
• Demonstrated commitment to educating students and knowledge of student development;
• Demonstrated outstanding attention to detail;
• Demonstrated excellent oral, written, and presentation skills;
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Ability to stay calm and function well in a high-paced office environment.
• Experience working with faculty.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently.
• Capacity to work as a member of an on-call rotation and with some night and weekend availability.

Preferred Qualifications:

• In-depth knowledge of student development theory.
• Experience within a college residential environment and/or liberal arts environment.
• Demonstrated experience in assessment or skills in collecting and/or analyzing data.

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