Student Academic And Career Advisor

Your mission

To guide the student through their entire journey at Schiller, from the time they enroll, providing them orientation as they begin their studies, until they graduate, making sure all their requirements are fulfilled. The Advisor will be the primary contact for student requests and will coordinate with all departments within Student Services and Academics to ensure the student’s needs are met. The Advisor will actively engage with students in mentorship and keep ongoing regular communication, lead initiatives to increase retention, graduation rates, and student employment rates, actively leading career services and placement initiatives and keeping updated data for compliance and regulatory needs. This position serves as the leader for student life initiatives on campus such as welcome weeks or other campus engagement events.

Reports to: Campus Director and Dean of Students

Subordinates: The position has no supervisory responsibilities

Department: Academics | Student Experience Department

Your profile

Main responsibilities and functions:

• Advise students on a regular, pro-active basis.
• Any other duties as assigned by the Campus Director and Dean of Students
• Coordinate with Program Leads, Advisory Board members and external employers to engage students in career opportunities.
• Provide students with training in career areas (writing a resume, interviewing, presentation skills) to increase their employability.
• Coordinate with Registrars where academic planning is concerned.
• Provide information to Students regarding academic requirements on a regular basis.
• Communicate regularly with students regarding their requirements to complete studies.
• Participate in Institutional Assessment and Improvement plans.
• Lead and promote on site student life events alongside the global Student Life Coordinator to promote student experience within key learning areas and values at Schiller.
• Work collaboratively with university administrative and academic leadership, Marketing department, faculty, students, academic support, and external stakeholder groups to support realization of the university objectives where academics and student experience are concerned.
• Work with operational systems and procedures to improve data gathering and archiving of student information, working closely with the IT team.

Position requirements

• Other languages (French, German, Spanish), desirable
• Three years of overall experience in higher education student information systems management
• Achieving Results
• Driving Innovation and Managing Change
• Global Mindset
• Core Competencies
• Learning and Development
• Master’s Degree in Psychology or similar field preferred
• Communication Connection and Service
• Either native English speaker or proficiency level of English competency

About us

For over 50 years, we have firmly believed in experiential learning, an educational model that combines knowledge and skills acquisitions with solid humanist values. A combined learning process that guaranteed to all our students not only proficient professional capacities but also an international mindset to build inclusive and realistic scenarios that unify people, nations and cultures.

At SIU we are aware that our students will be part of a global, borderless and hyper-connected world. Thus, our 4 International Campuses provide undergraduate and graduate students with a high-quality variety of degrees valid both in the USA and Europe. All our programs are instructed in English and designed to be customized to each personal scenario. Additionally all our students are encouraged to study abroad at any time during their education to complete their professional expertise with truly life experiences that turn them in truly holistic profiles.

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