Job Description
General Description
Academic Advisor
Lehman College is seeking an Academic Advisor for a recently awarded 5-year grant: Pathways to Student STEM Success: Using High Impact Practices to Improve STEM Enrollment, Retention, Transfer and Graduation. The advisor, cross-trained in advisement, admissions, and financial aid policies, will be located at Lehman College to meet with cohort and individual students on a regular basis. The primary responsibility is to advise students on academic policies, degree requirements, admissions processes, and financial aid procedures to ensure that students stay on track and are successful in completing their degree.
About the Pathways to Student STEM Success Program:
Pathways to Student STEM Success (PTS3) is a coherent and collaborative program that will engage senior and community college students in activities designed to build their social and cultural capital through: intensive advisement; master of academic content and skills; and participation in STEM activities that are central to STEM interest, efficacy, and success. PTS3 will also address administrative barriers that plague transfer students through joint planning and collaborative implementation with Bronx Community College (BCC) and Hostos Community College (HCC).
Other Duties
- Meet with STEM cohort and individual students on a regular basis.
- Counsel applicants and students on eligibility for financial aid programs and assist them in the application process
- Schedule and host events on a regular basis at academic partner institutions and at Lehman to promote transfer
- Develop and maintain relationships with faculty and staff at all campuses and partner institutions
- Expand and promote STEM articulation agreements between community colleges and Lehman College
- Conduct outreach to prospective and accepted students
- Assist PTS3 team with special events
- May require evening and weekend hours occasionally
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate area of specialization required, Master’s degree preferred
- Two years of academic advising experience, preferably with at-risk students
- Excellent communication skills
- Computer skills including MS Office (required) and CUNYfirst (preferred)
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) was established as a not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the State of New York in 1963. RFCUNY supports CUNY faculty and staff in identifying and obtaining external support (pre-award) from government and private sponsors and is responsible for the administration of all such funded programs (post-award).
RFCUNY stands between CUNY’s principal investigators (PIs) and the sponsors who support them and strives to fulfill its essential responsibilities to both groups. Working closely with individual PIs and Grants Officers on the campuses, RFCUNY oversees employment, accounting, audit, reporting, purchasing, and special responsibilities that include management of a planned giving program; liaison with governmental agencies and foundations; negotiation of agreements; facility construction and renovation; protection and commercialization of intellectual property; and compliance with applicable standards in research involving human subjects, animal care, environmental and radiological safety, and conflicts of interest.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
Enrollment Management
Full Time
$51,000.00 - $51,000.00
Sep 23, 2018 (Or Until Filled)