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This job was posted by https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov : For more information, please see: https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/11836230 Student Success Advisor - Advising & Mentoring

Office of Minority Student Affairs

(MULTIPLE POSITIONS)

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is seeking applications for multiple Student Success Advisors for the Advising and Mentoring Unit in the Office of Minority Student Affairs (OMSA). Founded in 1867, the University of Illinois is one of the nation\'s original 37 public land-grant institutions. The University of Illinois is home to approximately 56,000 students and 12,000 faculty and staff.

The Office of Minority Student Affairs (OMSA) provides leadership in developing, implementing, and delivering student support services to improve the retention, academic achievement, graduation, and success of undergraduates at Illinois, particularly, students who identify as first-generation, historically underrepresented, low-income, and/or educationally disadvantaged. OMSA promotes and develops educational opportunities and enrichment activities to help facilitate the educational and personal growth of student participants through organized activities and collaborative efforts with Student Affairs departments, the colleges and academic departments, and other campus and community partners. The OMSA is comprised of two administrative areas: The Academic Services Center (ASC) which includes Advising and Mentoring (A&M), First-Generation Student Initiatives (1GEN), and Tutoring and Academic Services (TAS); and TRIO, Administrative, Outreach, and Business Services (TAOBS). The OMSA\'s administers four TRIO programs which include two programs for undergraduates: TRIO Student Support Services, TRIO McNair Scholars Program, and two additional programs for pre-college populations: TRIO Upward Bound and TRIO Talent Search.

As a part of Student Success, Inclusion, and Belonging within Student Affairs, OMSA provides support for students to reach their personal, academic, and professional goals through curricular and co-curricular engagement opportunities. OMSA reports to the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Success, Inclusion, and Belonging (SSIB).

Job Summary

The Student Success Advisor is responsible for providing advising, mentoring and coaching to select freshmen and transfer students in the Advising and Mentoring unit of the OMSA, as well as providing supervision for a cadre of graduate staff. This position will work closely with academic units to investigate and troubleshoot barriers that prevent student success..

Duties & Responsibilities

Advising

Serves as an advocate and resource for assigned students and maintain frequent, systematic contact with those students.

Collaborates with the colleges and departmental academic advisors to identify students whose behaviors align with early alerts and refer students for academic retention services.

Collaborates with the colleges and departmental academic advisors to assists students in understanding and negotiating the academic rules and regulations that govern academic eligibility, progress, and successful degree completion.

Builds, fosters and maintains intentional relationships with the colleges departments and/or relevant campus units to ensure accurate dissemination of information.

Assist with the coordinating the OMSA communication strategy and shares said information with colleges, departments and/or relevant campus units.

Directs purposeful discussion with students to identify academic strengths and challenges, gauge adjustment to academic and social life on campus, and provide advice regarding viable pathways that may lead to enhanced student success.

Assists students in developing a student success plan, an informal co-curricular transcript and a realistic career pathway plan.

Maintains detailed and thorough notes n individual advising sessions using unit and campus level reporting mechanisms.

Assists with the development of reports, data analysis and assessment of students\' first year term by term engagement

Participates in the drop-in rotation to advise students seeking assistance but are not specifically targeted to receive assigned mentoring services.

Maintains awareness of a variety of institutional information including new majors, minors, certificate programs, deadlines and important dates etc.

Maintains awareness of current trends and best practices regarding student outreach and/or retention; assist with developing retention strategies, and work closely with staff in implementing, evaluating, and improving retention strategies.

Assigned Area of Specialization and Supervision

Identifies and coordinates the logistics and operations relating to the assigned area of specialization including but not limited to structure, planning, outreach and execution, and budget requests. Assigned areas may include but are not limited to academic success/GRIT teaching and/or programming, continuing student experience, service learning and leadership, career development and engagement, admissions, diversity, equity and inclusion etc.

Participates in hiring of undergraduate student volunte