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Req #: 245651

Department: UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

Appointing Department Web Address: https://advising.uw.edu/

Posting Date: 05/01/2025

Closing Info:

Open Until Filled

Salary: $5,400 - $5,562 per month

Shift: First Shift

Notes:

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, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-contract-covered-exempt-20250130-a11y.pdf) **Although open until filled, priority application date is May 18, 2025.**

_This position has received funding through June 2026, and there is a possibility for extension based on funding._

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.

Undergraduate Academic Affairs has an outstanding opportunity for an Academic Adviser to join their team.

Within UAA, UAA Advising provides academic planning services and support for students, including helping them explore academic opportunities and working with them to connect their personal strengths and interests with curricular (including co- and extra-curricular) experiences. UAA Advising works primarily with students who are exploring and undecided or preparing for entrance into a major. UAA Advising is a primary campus contact for prospective transfer students, working closely with the community and technical colleges in Washington State. UAA Advising is the UW’s centralized advising office, providing leadership and support to advisers, departments, and student service units around the institution in the areas of academic advising practice and policy.

UAA Advising works closely with First Year Programs, Academic Support Programs, and other campus partners to support advising and orientation programming along with tutoring and course support for students. UAA Advising collaborates extensively around campus, particularly with college and departmental advisers, student services offices, and key campus event organizers. Along with Academic Support Programs and the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity’s Academic Counseling Services, UAA Advising is physically located at the heart of the university, within the Center for Undergraduate Advising, Diversity, and Student Success (CUADSS) at Mary Gates Hall.

Reporting to the Assistant Director, the Academic Adviser will have the following responsibilities:

**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES** 70% Advise and Assist Students

In a variety of direct advising settings (1:1, drop-in, group, remote), in understanding academic options, degree requirements, and university policies and procedures. Guide and support students in making informed choices, developing their academic identities, and crafting successful academic plans. Foster innovation in advising practicing by experimenting with new models and methods of advising the large and diverse UW pre-major student population. Work with a diverse cohort of pre-major students, providing:

+ Advising support to general pre-major students

+ Advising and information resources for new and prospective transfer students

+ Advising and special programming for international students

+ Advising and post-graduate preparation for pre-professional students (pre-law, pre-health).

+ Advising, outreach and support to low scholarship and at-risk students, and guidance to those seeking reinstatement to the University.10% Administrative Management of Advising Work

+ Recording of notes

+ Appointment preparation

+ Appointment follow up

+ Referrals

+ Responding to advising-related email and other documentation10% Support the Goals and Functions of the Advising Office

+ Administrative tasks and projects

+ Support and coordination of events

+ Collaboration with partners across campus

+ Other duties as assigned10% Support Programming

+ Experiential learning

+ Academic and career integration

+ Scaled advising initiativesAll UAA Advising Staff will demonstrate and integrate the following Undergraduate Academic Affairs Competencies:Accountability and IntegrityRace, Equity, and DifferenceConstituent FocusCollaboration and Teamwork **MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS**

+ Bachelor's degree

+ Two years of advising, student counseling, teaching experience, or related experience. _Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration._ **ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS**

+ Excellent organizational and time-management skills, and superlative attention to detail

+ Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing, and to collaborate effectively with people representing diverse perspectives, approaches, and job roles.

+ Demonstrated familiarity with, and ability to adopt and implement diverse technology, communications and social media platforms and applications.

+ Ability to appropriately manage sensitive information.

+ Superlative ability to provide an empathic, yet professional and efficient approach to working with students from extremely diverse backgrounds and those with a spectrum of personal and academic challenges.

+ Experience working with diverse student populations including students considered to be at-risk, low-scholarship, international students, or transfer students. **DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS**

+ Experience as a UW student or staff member.

+ Experience with Excel, EARS and UW SDB.

+ Experience working in areas related to career counseling, and familiarity with career exploration and job search tools.

+ Familiarity with contemporary concepts in student development. **Cover letter prompt** Please include a cover letter that addresses the following:Why do you want to work in UAA Advising?Why do you want to work with pre major (undecided/exploratory) students? **Application Process:** The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are access ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.