Academic Advisor

About the role

The Academic Support department at Indiana University Northwest is dedicated to enhancing student success through personalized advising. Advisors work closely with faculty, academic units, and campus support services to provide comprehensive guidance throughout a student's educational journey.

Responsibilities

• Provides proactive academic advising to undergraduate and graduate students through individual appointments, group advising sessions, and outreach initiatives.
• Maintains accurate, timely advising notes, student records, and degree-planning documentation using university systems.
• Collaborates with faculty, enrollment management, financial aid, student affairs, and other campus partners to address student needs and remove barriers to success.
• Serves on departmental and campus committees that support academic success and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Represents the advising function as a presenter at campus meetings and recruiting functions.
• Assists in developing written advising materials for use in student events.
• Researches, recommends, or creates best practices for unit or campus initiatives, projects, processes, or programs and may provide guidance to other Academic Advisors.

Requirements

• Master's degree in a related field.
• 2 years of experience in student affairs, teaching, academic advising, or related field.
• Experience advising undergraduate or graduate students in a college or university setting.
• Experience interpreting degree requirements, curriculum, and academic policies.
• Experience working with a variety of student populations, including first-generation, transfer, adult, military-affiliated.
• Experience utilizing student information systems, degree audit software, or customer relationship management (CRM) platforms.
• Experience planning and facilitating workshops, orientation programs, or student success initiatives.
• Experience collaborating across multiple academic departments and administrative offices.
• Experience using student success data to identify trends and develop targeted outreach strategies.

Qualifications

• Proficient communication skills.
• Maintains a high degree of professionalism.
• Demonstrates time management and priority-setting skills.
• Demonstrates a high commitment to quality.
• Possesses flexibility to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Seeks to acquire knowledge in the area of specialty.
• Highly thorough and dependable.
• Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure.
• Uses and learns new technology proficiently, and adapts practices as technology changes.
• Meets Best Practices and National Standards for Academic Advising.
• Understands and meets FERPA requirements.

Skills

• Proficient communication skills.
• Maintains a high degree of professionalism.
• Demonstrates time management and priority-setting skills.
• Demonstrates a high commitment to quality.
• Possesses flexibility to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Seeks to acquire knowledge in the area of specialty.
• Highly thorough and dependable.
• Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure.
• Uses and learns new technology proficiently, and adapts practices as technology changes.
• Meets Best Practices and National Standards for Academic Advising.
• Understands and meets FERPA requirements.

Benefits

This role offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Comprehensive medical and dental insurance.
• Health savings account with generous IU contributions.
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
• Basic group life insurance paid by IU.
• Voluntary supplemental life, long-term disability, critical illness, and supplemental accidental death & dismemberment insurance.
• Base retirement plan with generous IU contributions, subject to vesting.
• Voluntary supplemental retirement plan options.
• Tuition subsidy for employees and family members taking IU courses.
• 10 paid holidays plus a paid winter break each year.
• Generous paid time off plans.
• Paid leave for new parents and IU-sponsored volunteer events.
• Employee assistance program (EAP).

Pay

$44,766.00 annually

Schedule

Part-time position

Contact Information

To learn more about Indiana University's Job Framework, visit Indiana University. For full-time staff employees, Indiana University offers a wide array of benefits including:

• Comprehensive medical and dental insurance.
• Health savings account with generous IU contributions.
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
• Basic group life insurance paid by IU.
• Voluntary supplemental life, long-term disability, critical illness, and supplemental accidental death & dismemberment insurance.
• Base retirement plan with generous IU contributions, subject to vesting.
• Voluntary supplemental retirement plan options.
• Tuition subsidy for employees and family members taking IU courses.
• 10 paid holidays plus a paid winter break each year.
• Generous paid time off plans.
• Paid leave for new parents and IU-sponsored volunteer events.
• Employee assistance program (EAP).