Academic and Career Advisor
Job Description
Position Summary
Located 45 minutes from the Nations Capital, nestled in a history-rich community of southern Maryland, The College of Southern Maryland (CSM) has been twice named in the top 150 community colleges by the Aspen Institute with academic programs in over 100 disciplines. CSM is among Americas top 100 producers of Minority associate degrees in twenty categories, according to Diverse Issues in Higher Education. CSM offers excellent health insurance benefits; State Retirement Pension plan; wellness programs; Code Green early closure Fridays in the summer; college closure for spring break and several major holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year; and for several days in March for Spring Break. We are an innovative institution committed to student success and well known for our flexibility to meet student and community needs.
Reporting to the Director of Advising and Career Services, the individual in this position provides logistical/analytical as well as academic and career advising support to the ACS department. Serves as a lead for Starfish and Student Planning concerns and projects. Runs reports and makes recommendations to the Director based on data analysis. Provides advising support during peak registration and other times of the academic year, as needed.
The College of Southern Maryland conducts background checks in order to ensure the safety and well-being of the College's staff and students. The final candidate for this position will be subject to the following background checks: Criminal History Check and Sex Offender Registry Check.
This position is open until filled. The College of Southern Maryland is an Equal Opportunity Employer.Specific Duties and Responsibilities
Essential Functions:
- Works closely with PIER to produce reports/surveys, etc.
- Assists students with registration as needed.
- Manages a caseload of students in a specified pathway (Trades, Transportation & Energy).
- Provides career advisement and registration for students, which requires ascertaining students goals and assisting in the planning for students attainment of these goals
- Assists students in interpretation of transfer requirements for articulation agreements and transfer options in general, if applicable
- Collects and reports monthly statistics to the Director of Advising & Career Services.
- Serves as campus contact for ACS Data.
- Promotes credit and continuing education courses and programs
- Serves on various committees that impact the vision of the department.
- Serves on task forces related to improving the delivery of student services
- Provides academic advisement for all students during peak registration periods and other times of the year as needed.
- Maintains accurate records and notes about student progress.
- Assists students with the interpretation of placement test and online advising resources.
- Provides referrals to campus and community resources regarding student issues both academic and personal.
- Keeps up to date with academic advising information, Colleague, and online advisor procedures.
- Provides assistance to students in the use on online and other web tools for academic and career advising.
- Attends academic advisor meetings and training.
Additional Duties:
Performs other related work as required.
Minimum Education and Training
- BS or BA degree required with two years experience in career development, education, advising or four years experience in related field.
- Knowledge and experience in assisting students in a college setting in academic and/or career development
- Community College experience, preferred
- Experience with data analysis and reporting, preferred.
Minimum Qualifications and Standards Required
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Abilities to lead group workshops
- Excellent communication skills, written and oral
- Ability to work with a diverse population with wide variety of needs
- Knowledge of community resources accessible to customers
- Ability to work with limited supervision
- Experience with computer data entry and Microsoft office suite
- Position requires high level of confidentiality
Physical Requirements:
The work is light work which requires exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force to move objects.
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