Senior Academic Advisor - School of Arts

Overview

The professionals in Undergraduate Education foster student growth, empowerment, and success by serving, advising, guiding, nurturing, and celebrating our students, and working with them and our faculty to solve problems so that students may successfully navigate the university. We focus on the academic aspect of students' lives at Tufts, providing information, advice, and support to help them successfully complete their degrees in a timely manner while ensuring that our students have an enriching and rewarding academic experience. To that end, we provide students with tutoring, advising, academic support, direction, and accurate information. We also provide academic enrichment programs and opportunities so that students may reach their full potential and achieve their best. We collaborate with faculty and other departments to advocate for students and improve the academic experience for all students as well as the policies governing undergraduate study at Tufts.
What You'll Do

The Senior Academic Advisor serves as a proactive academic advisor to undeclared undergraduate students. The Senior Academic Advisor supports students in their engagement with the curriculum, helps them navigate university procedures and make informed decisions about choice of major, and acts as an accessible source for information about curriculum requirements, course selection, and campus resources. Supporting the Dean of Undergraduate Studies and the Associate Deans of Undergraduate Advising, the Senior Academic Advisor provides logistical support, programming, research, and data analysis for a team-based approach to pre-major advising, New Student Orientation, the First Year Experience, and undergraduate retention efforts at Tufts.

Counsels and advises students on academic program including course selection and requirements for majors and areas of concentration; develops and provides expertise on a disciplinary group of majors
Assists students in making appropriate educational choices and decisions
Provides advice and coordination with Career Services for research, internship and employment opportunities.
Provides advice and resources for study abroad.
Conducts group information sessions as well as individual counseling
Collaborates with and identifies University resources to support student and faculty advising
Guide students as they adjust to college life and learning and help navigate university policies and procedures.
Manages advising for special student constituency or program area.
*Support curriculum-based advising of undecided students.
Maintaining discretion and student privacy when communicating with faculty, staff, and other students
Deploys resources (web, print, personnel) to better communicate academic policies
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An employee in this position must complete all appropriate background checks at the time of hire, promotion, or transfer. Equal Opportunity Employer minority/females/veterans/disability/sexual orientation/gender identity.