ACADEMIC COUNSELOR
University of Washington
- Seattle, WA
- $4,447-6,671 per month
- Permanent
- Part-time
Req #: 232516
Department: COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Job Location: Seattle Campus
Posting Date: 03/27/2024
Closing Info: Open Until Filled
Salary: $4,447 - $6,671 per month
Other Compensation:
Shift: First Shift
Benefits: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website,Although open until filled, priority application date is April 10, 2024.As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty.The College of Arts & Sciences is the largest academic unit in the University (40 academic departments, 1400 teaching and research faculty, and more than 20,000 undergraduate students). By centering the student experience around major selection, career preparation, and professional growth, the College will better serve its mission to prepare our students to become leaders in an increasingly diverse society.The College of Arts & Sciences has an outstanding opportunity for an Academic Counselor (E S 6)
in the Humanities Division.A strategic goal of the College of Arts & Sciences is to improve and enrich the experiences of its undergraduates across the college. One substantive step towards accomplishing this goal is launching in the Division of the Humanities with the creation of an innovative integrated academic advising center to serve students majoring in any of its 12 academic departments: Asian Languages & Literature; Classics; Comparative History of Ideas; Cinema & Media Studies; English; French & Italian Studies; Germanics; Linguistics; Near Eastern Languages & Civilization; Scandinavian Studies; Slavic Studies; and Spanish & Portuguese Studies.Through the study of language, literature, and culture, Humanities students explore the human experience from diverse perspectives. Foundational to enriching the educational experience of these students is the undergraduate advising team, a group of committed and innovative professional staff who will provide timely, consistent, accessible, and comprehensive advising services to students majoring and minoring in any of the degree options offered within the Division. Through the Humanities Advising Center, coordinated outreach and recruitment efforts will be deployed to elevate the Humanities as valuable and valued areas of study for prospective students and premajors.This position will report to the Academic Services Director.DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Advising
- Through 1:1 as well as group academic advising, counsel undergraduate majors and pre-majors in the Division of Humanities concerning admission, academic fields of study, registration, barriers to college persistence, and degree planning.
- Answer inquiries by email, phone, and in person.
- Monitor student academic progress through a variety of reporting tools.
- Confer with the appropriate authority on the review and evaluation of transfer credit, including credit from study abroad programs.
- Review and process graduation applications.
- Review and process petitions (e.g. Hardship Withdrawal, Satisfactory Progress for Financial Aid, Graduation Petitions, Reinstatement).
- Work with Registrar's Office, Undergraduate Academic Advising and Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity, Admissions, First Year Programs, Graduation and Academic Records, and other campus organizations to address a wide variety of admissions, registration, advising, financial, and personal student issues.
- Refer students to appropriate campus resources and student support services.
- Maintain individual student records in accordance with appropriate security and legal requirements; develop and/or maintain tracking processes at individual student and aggregate (program) levels.
- Assist, as needed in class scheduling, course updates, and enrollment activities.
- Represent the Division at Freshman and Transfer Advising and Orientation (A&O). Support outreach and recruitment efforts for the Division, including yield events sponsored by the Office of Admissions (National College Fairs, UW Admitted Student Preview, UW Transfer Preview Day).
- Other duties as assigned.
- Bachelors Degree in the Arts, Humanities, Natural Sciences or Social Sciences.
- Minimum two years experience working in academic services (e.g. admissions, academic or career counseling) in a post-secondary educational setting.
- UW experience; familiarity with Student Data Base, Electronic Academic Records System, BI Portal, Enterprise Data Warehouse, MyPlan, Time Schedule Construction and Time Schedule Update systems.