Title: Liberal Arts Academic and Career Advisor (*Restricted)
Agency: Northern VA Community College
Location: Fairfax County - 059
FLSA: Exempt
Hiring Range: $65,000/yr
Full Time or Part Time: Full Time
Job Description:
General Description:
The Liberal Arts Career Advisor reports to the Mandel Grant Program Director; in this role the new Liberal Arts Career Advisor will: recruit and advise Languages, Arts, and Social Sciences (LASS) students on academic and career options; track student enrollment and forms, assist with event management and data compilation, and execute and develop student programming, while supporting the Project Director.
Duties and Tasks:
- Engage in direct interactions, relationship building for career related career related student recruitment, advising and coaching
- Keep accurate, up to date notes with the appropriate student tracking software
- Tracks student enrollment and student forms
- Collect data, track outcomes, and produce reports about students receiving career coaching
- Assist with event management
- Assists with data compilation
- Meet occasionally with colleagues on the career team to remain up to date on policy and processes related to career services.
- Work with internal and external stakeholders, including faculty, staff to update and share career information and opportunities related to assigned disciplines.
- Serve as a liaison to advising teams
- Participate in College task forces, committees, and working groups.
- Participates in regular professional development as required and/or relevant to the assigned work.
- Reports to the Mandel Grant Program Manager
- Ability to occasionally travel to off-campus work sites such as other campuses, college sites, local universities, or employee sites.
Special Assignments:
May be required to perform other duties as assigned. May be required to assist the agency or state government generally in the event of an emergency declaration by the Governor.
**This position is restricted and is funded with non-continuous or non-recurring funding and is subject to continuation based on fiscal year funds and the needs of the College.
Minimum Qualifications:
KSA's Requirements:
- Knowledge of coaching theory including career development and job search strategies
- Knowledge of recruitment, academic planning, course scheduling, transfer, career and student development advising.
- Knowledge of college readiness research, persistence/retention and completion research and best practices for traditional and non-traditional students.
- Ability to discern appropriate instances of confidentiality and effectively communicate this with students.
- Ability to promote inclusive advising and career sessions and a campus climate respectful of diversity and multiculturalism.
- Ability to utilize interpersonal and problem-solving skills to collaborate and negotiate with students, faculty, staff, parents, members of the community and college representatives.
- Ability to work with College faculty and staff in support of Mandel Grant outcomes
- Ability to understand, disseminate, interpret, and communicate college policies and regulations using approved and accepted processes and practices.
- Demonstrate outstanding oral and written communication skills, including the development of letters, emails, and workshop materials, and the ability to present to and instruct large and small audiences.
- Ability to design, implement, and evaluate programs including career workshops and events
- Ability to use and analyze data to evaluate and improve programs
- Knowledge of, and skill in, computer usage including Microsoft Office, e-mail, student information systems, such as Simplicity and CANVAS, ticket tracking software, Microsoft Suite Reader, social media, and use of the Internet to complete research.
- Ability to occasionally travel to off-campus work sites such as other campuses or workplaces
- Ability to manage multiple tasks in a timely manner in a fast-paced environment.
Minimum Requirements:
- Experience with providing advising/career advising for college students or adults as a primary job/role responsibility.
- Experience working and/or studying in the liberal arts.
- Experience with customer service
- Experience with student tracking data platforms.
- Experience in Microsoft office.
Preferred Qualifications:
Additional Considerations:
- Experience working in a higher education setting.
- Experience in recruiting in a higher education setting.
- Experience with tracking individual student progress through career development milestones.
- Experience with event planning, implementation, and evaluation.
- Bilingual with proficiency in a foreign language frequently spoken in Northern Virginia.
- Knowledge of relevant federal, state, VCCS, and college policies and regulations including the Family Education Rights Privacy Act (FERPA), Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Title IX, and VAWA/SaVE, and Clery legislation.
- Experience utilizing Navigate and PeopleSoft or other student information systems.