Senior Academic Advisor for Strategic Student Support
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content.
We need to parse the posting.
First, job title: Senior Academic Advisor for Strategic Student Support Academic Exploration Advising Office of Academic Programs (maybe title is "Senior Academic Advisor for Strategic Student Support").
We must not repeat job title as heading.
We need sections:
- About the role: likely from "About the Opportunity" paragraph. That's description.
- Responsibilities: from "Job Accountabilities" bullet list.
- Requirements: maybe from "Minimum Qualifications" and "Preferred Qualifications"? Usually Requirements includes minimum qualifications. Qualifications maybe includes preferred? But we have both Requirements and Qualifications sections. We need to decide what to put where. The instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have both Requirements and Qualifications. Likely Requirements = minimum qualifications, Qualifications = preferred qualifications. Skills could be extracted from preferred qualifications like technical skills, ability to work fast-paced, etc. But we might combine.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Pay: we have "The annual hourly range for this position is $34.35-$41.70". That's pay info. So we can include Pay section with that sentence.
Schedule: not mentioned. So omit Schedule.
Benefits: not mentioned explicitly. No benefits details. So omit Benefits.
We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from the posting, but we can structure them.
We need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So for responsibilities list (Job Accountabilities) we need a
. For qualifications (minimum and preferred) we can also use lists.
We need to use for prose.
We must not include boilerplate like Application Procedure, etc. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. Also remove "Application Procedure: To be considered for this opportunity, please submit a cover letter with your resume/CV." That's application instructions, remove.
Also remove "Job ID REQ20177321 Posted Date 08/28/2026 Apply Current employees apply here". That's metadata, drop or fold into short p? The instruction: do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. We can drop it entirely (since it's minor). Probably drop.
Also remove "About USC" paragraph? That's about the university, maybe considered substantive? It's about USC, could be considered part of About the role? Might be considered background. The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we should keep the About USC paragraph. Where to place? Could be part of About the role? Or we could make a separate section "About USC"? Not in allowed headings list. But we could include it under About the role as prose. The heading "About the role" is allowed; we can put the About USC and About the Opportunity under that heading.
Thus:
About the role
USC description + About the Opportunity paragraph.
Then Responsibilities: Responsibilities
- ... each accountability as list item.
Then Requirements: Requirements
maybe minimum qualifications list.
Then Qualifications: Qualifications
maybe preferred qualifications list.
Then Skills: maybe we can extract skills from preferred qualifications: Demonstrated strong technical skills in the use of USC’s Student Information System, Advise USC and Slate; Ability to work in a fast-paced environment; Flexibility in the face of changing priorities and information; Demonstrated experience with problem identification, novel solutions and conflict resolution; Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with students, staff and faculty across USC; Outstanding written and oral communication skills, able to distill and convey information to diverse audiences. Also from minimum qualifications: Outstanding written and oral communication skills etc. But we can combine.
But we need to avoid duplication. We could put skills as a list.
Pay: Pay
The annual hourly range for this position is $34.35-$41.70.
We must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
Now ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. Not using.
Now produce HTML fragment.
Let's extract details.
About USC paragraph:
"The University of Southern California (USC) is one of the world’s leading private research universities with approximately 45,000 students from all 50 states and internationally. USC is located in the heart of Los Angeles, a culturally rich metropolitan city, and is close to both beach and mountains, and offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment."
About the Opportunity paragraph:
"Academic Exploration Advising is seeking a Senior Academic Advisor for Strategic Student Support (Student Services Advisor II) to join our collaborative team, which empowers students to explore a growth- and goal- oriented mindset. Reporting to the Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Advising, this role will serve as a university wide referral point for complicated academic advising situations, ensuring consistency, fairness and supportive student outcomes. Complicated cases may involve undergraduate leave of absence policy and procedures; students dismissed from an academic major; students working with multiple administrative offices; students with a foreign language substitution accommodation; students who have had multiple withdrawals or failed classes. The Senior Academic Advisor for Strategic Student Support will also support a population of Undergraduate Success Program students, a population of Exploratory major students and collaborate with other academic advisors in the Academic Exploration Advising office on projects and tasks. The successful candidate must possess direct, related experience in student services and programming with an ability to collaborate across campus with multiple stakeholders. As part of a team, they will act creatively in both an individual role and in concert with others to initiate and to further develop programs that will enable the University to meet its strategic objectives for persistence and timely graduation. The position requires a strong, creative and flexible candidate."
We can combine these two paragraphs into About the role.
Now Responsibilities (Job Accountabilities) list:
- Assists in resolving non-routine problems and provides policy or procedural interpretations for matters which are not clearly defined.
- Intervenes with university central student services as necessary to connect prospective students with the right staff member or department.
- Evaluates student situations and requests and takes appropriate action.
- Provides academic counseling for undergraduate students.
- Advises on matters of curriculum, course and degree requirements.
- Monitors student progress.
- Researches demographics, plans outreach programs and events.
- Evaluates student problems, academic, administrative or personal, and refers student to appropriate student services office for additional counseling.
- Liaises with other offices on behalf of students to facilitate problem resolution.
- Maintains academic unit student records and coordinates registration activities, grading, degree progress, enrollment and transcripts with the USC Office of Academic Records and Registrar.
- Assists with Petition applications and letters of recommendation.
- Participates in committees at the college or university level which deal in student services issues.
- Provides administrative support for local committees and works on committee assigned projects.
- Maintains currency on policies, procedures and regulations pertaining to admission, financial aid, registration, transfer credit evaluation, course and degree requirements, graduation requirements, petitions and other student services.
- Maintains and compiles statistical data.
- Prepares reports for internal and external use.
We need to ensure each is a list item.
Now Requirements (Minimum Qualifications):
- Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum of 3 years of experience advising and developing student programs
- Combined experience/education can be used as a substitute for minimum education
- Academic advising experience in a non-profit, higher education setting
- Committed to working with a wide range of students interested in enriching their undergraduate experience
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills, able to distill and convey information to diverse audiences
Note: The line "Combined experience/education can be used as a substitute for minimum education" is a qualification.
Now Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications):
- Master’s degree in Student Affairs, Higher Education, Counseling or related field
- Demonstrated knowledge of USC programs, services and offices across campus including Campus Support and Intervention, Kortschak Center for Learning and Creativity, Student Life and Office of Student Accessibility Services
- Demonstrated strong technical skills in the use of USC’s Student Information System, Advise USC and Slate
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Flexibility in the face of changing priorities and information
- Demonstrated experience with problem identification, novel solutions and conflict resolution
- Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with students, staff and faculty across USC
Note: Also "Outstanding written and oral communication skills..." appears in minimum qualifications; we already have that.
Now Skills: Could extract from preferred qualifications: technical skills, ability to work fast-paced, flexibility, problem identification, conflict resolution, relationship building, communication skills. But we already have communication skills in requirements. Might duplicate. Perhaps we can put skills as a separate list summarizing those abilities.
But we must not invent or summarize away detail. If we create a Skills section, we need to include the specific skill statements from the posting. We can take those statements and put them as list items under Skills. That would be preserving detail, not summarizing.
Thus Skills list:
- Demonstrated strong technical skills in the use of USC’s Student Information System, Advise USC and Slate
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Flexibility in the face of changing priorities and information
- Demonstrated experience with problem identification, novel solutions and conflict resolution
- Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with students, staff and faculty across USC
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills, able to distill and convey information to diverse audiences
But note that outstanding written and oral communication skills also appears in minimum qualifications; we could still include it here but might duplicate. However duplication is allowed? The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Duplication is not prohibited but might be redundant. Better to avoid duplication by placing communication skills only in Requirements (minimum) and not repeat in Skills. But then Skills would miss that detail. However the skill is also listed under preferred qualifications? Actually not; it's under minimum qualifications. So if we put communication skills only in Requirements, we still preserve it. Skills section can include other skills not already covered.
Thus Skills list:
- Demonstrated strong technical skills in the use of USC’s Student Information System, Advise USC and Slate
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Flexibility in the face of changing priorities and information
- Demonstrated experience with problem identification, novel solutions and conflict resolution
- Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with students, staff and faculty across USC
Now Pay: we have the hourly range.
Now we need to ensure we don't include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
Now produce HTML.
We'll wrap everything in a fragment (no html/body). Use headings.
Let's craft.
Check for any other substantive info: The posting includes "Job Accountabilities" heading; we used that.
Also includes "Minimum Qualifications" and "Preferred Qualifications". Good.
Also includes "The annual hourly range for this position is $34.35-$41.70." Good.
Also includes "When determining an offer, the University of Southern California considers factors such as the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidates experience, education, training, key skills, internal peer alignment, applicable laws, contractual requirements, grant funding, and market conditions." That's substantive about pay determination. Should we include? It's about pay determination; we could include in Pay section as additional sentence. It's not filler; it's detail about how offer determined. So we should preserve it. So Pay section can have two sentences: the range and the factors.
Thus Pay:
The annual
- . For qualifications (minimum and preferred) we can also use lists.
We need to use
- ... each accountability as list item.
for prose. We must not include boilerplate like Application Procedure, etc. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. Also remove "Application Procedure: To be considered for this opportunity, please submit a cover letter with your resume/CV." That's application instructions, remove. Also remove "Job ID REQ20177321 Posted Date 08/28/2026 Apply Current employees apply here". That's metadata, drop or fold into short p? The instruction: do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. We can drop it entirely (since it's minor). Probably drop. Also remove "About USC" paragraph? That's about the university, maybe considered substantive? It's about USC, could be considered part of About the role? Might be considered background. The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we should keep the About USC paragraph. Where to place? Could be part of About the role? Or we could make a separate section "About USC"? Not in allowed headings list. But we could include it under About the role as prose. The heading "About the role" is allowed; we can put the About USC and About the Opportunity under that heading. Thus:
About the role
USC description + About the Opportunity paragraph.
Then Responsibilities:Responsibilities
Requirements
maybe minimum qualifications list. Then Qualifications:Qualifications
maybe preferred qualifications list. Then Skills: maybe we can extract skills from preferred qualifications: Demonstrated strong technical skills in the use of USC’s Student Information System, Advise USC and Slate; Ability to work in a fast-paced environment; Flexibility in the face of changing priorities and information; Demonstrated experience with problem identification, novel solutions and conflict resolution; Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with students, staff and faculty across USC; Outstanding written and oral communication skills, able to distill and convey information to diverse audiences. Also from minimum qualifications: Outstanding written and oral communication skills etc. But we can combine. But we need to avoid duplication. We could put skills as a list. Pay:Pay
The annual hourly range for this position is $34.35-$41.70.
We must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. Now ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. Not using. Now produce HTML fragment. Let's extract details. About USC paragraph: "The University of Southern California (USC) is one of the world’s leading private research universities with approximately 45,000 students from all 50 states and internationally. USC is located in the heart of Los Angeles, a culturally rich metropolitan city, and is close to both beach and mountains, and offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment." About the Opportunity paragraph: "Academic Exploration Advising is seeking a Senior Academic Advisor for Strategic Student Support (Student Services Advisor II) to join our collaborative team, which empowers students to explore a growth- and goal- oriented mindset. Reporting to the Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Advising, this role will serve as a university wide referral point for complicated academic advising situations, ensuring consistency, fairness and supportive student outcomes. Complicated cases may involve undergraduate leave of absence policy and procedures; students dismissed from an academic major; students working with multiple administrative offices; students with a foreign language substitution accommodation; students who have had multiple withdrawals or failed classes. The Senior Academic Advisor for Strategic Student Support will also support a population of Undergraduate Success Program students, a population of Exploratory major students and collaborate with other academic advisors in the Academic Exploration Advising office on projects and tasks. The successful candidate must possess direct, related experience in student services and programming with an ability to collaborate across campus with multiple stakeholders. As part of a team, they will act creatively in both an individual role and in concert with others to initiate and to further develop programs that will enable the University to meet its strategic objectives for persistence and timely graduation. The position requires a strong, creative and flexible candidate." We can combine these two paragraphs into About the role. Now Responsibilities (Job Accountabilities) list: - Assists in resolving non-routine problems and provides policy or procedural interpretations for matters which are not clearly defined. - Intervenes with university central student services as necessary to connect prospective students with the right staff member or department. - Evaluates student situations and requests and takes appropriate action. - Provides academic counseling for undergraduate students. - Advises on matters of curriculum, course and degree requirements. - Monitors student progress. - Researches demographics, plans outreach programs and events. - Evaluates student problems, academic, administrative or personal, and refers student to appropriate student services office for additional counseling. - Liaises with other offices on behalf of students to facilitate problem resolution. - Maintains academic unit student records and coordinates registration activities, grading, degree progress, enrollment and transcripts with the USC Office of Academic Records and Registrar. - Assists with Petition applications and letters of recommendation. - Participates in committees at the college or university level which deal in student services issues. - Provides administrative support for local committees and works on committee assigned projects. - Maintains currency on policies, procedures and regulations pertaining to admission, financial aid, registration, transfer credit evaluation, course and degree requirements, graduation requirements, petitions and other student services. - Maintains and compiles statistical data. - Prepares reports for internal and external use. We need to ensure each is a list item. Now Requirements (Minimum Qualifications): - Bachelor’s degree - Minimum of 3 years of experience advising and developing student programs - Combined experience/education can be used as a substitute for minimum education - Academic advising experience in a non-profit, higher education setting - Committed to working with a wide range of students interested in enriching their undergraduate experience - Outstanding written and oral communication skills, able to distill and convey information to diverse audiences Note: The line "Combined experience/education can be used as a substitute for minimum education" is a qualification. Now Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications): - Master’s degree in Student Affairs, Higher Education, Counseling or related field - Demonstrated knowledge of USC programs, services and offices across campus including Campus Support and Intervention, Kortschak Center for Learning and Creativity, Student Life and Office of Student Accessibility Services - Demonstrated strong technical skills in the use of USC’s Student Information System, Advise USC and Slate - Ability to work in a fast-paced environment - Flexibility in the face of changing priorities and information - Demonstrated experience with problem identification, novel solutions and conflict resolution - Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with students, staff and faculty across USC Note: Also "Outstanding written and oral communication skills..." appears in minimum qualifications; we already have that. Now Skills: Could extract from preferred qualifications: technical skills, ability to work fast-paced, flexibility, problem identification, conflict resolution, relationship building, communication skills. But we already have communication skills in requirements. Might duplicate. Perhaps we can put skills as a separate list summarizing those abilities. But we must not invent or summarize away detail. If we create a Skills section, we need to include the specific skill statements from the posting. We can take those statements and put them as list items under Skills. That would be preserving detail, not summarizing. Thus Skills list: - Demonstrated strong technical skills in the use of USC’s Student Information System, Advise USC and Slate - Ability to work in a fast-paced environment - Flexibility in the face of changing priorities and information - Demonstrated experience with problem identification, novel solutions and conflict resolution - Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with students, staff and faculty across USC - Outstanding written and oral communication skills, able to distill and convey information to diverse audiences But note that outstanding written and oral communication skills also appears in minimum qualifications; we could still include it here but might duplicate. However duplication is allowed? The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Duplication is not prohibited but might be redundant. Better to avoid duplication by placing communication skills only in Requirements (minimum) and not repeat in Skills. But then Skills would miss that detail. However the skill is also listed under preferred qualifications? Actually not; it's under minimum qualifications. So if we put communication skills only in Requirements, we still preserve it. Skills section can include other skills not already covered. Thus Skills list: - Demonstrated strong technical skills in the use of USC’s Student Information System, Advise USC and Slate - Ability to work in a fast-paced environment - Flexibility in the face of changing priorities and information - Demonstrated experience with problem identification, novel solutions and conflict resolution - Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with students, staff and faculty across USC Now Pay: we have the hourly range. Now we need to ensure we don't include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. Now produce HTML. We'll wrap everything in a fragment (no html/body). Useheadings. Let's craft. Check for any other substantive info: The posting includes "Job Accountabilities" heading; we used that. Also includes "Minimum Qualifications" and "Preferred Qualifications". Good. Also includes "The annual hourly range for this position is $34.35-$41.70." Good. Also includes "When determining an offer, the University of Southern California considers factors such as the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidates experience, education, training, key skills, internal peer alignment, applicable laws, contractual requirements, grant funding, and market conditions." That's substantive about pay determination. Should we include? It's about pay determination; we could include in Pay section as additional sentence. It's not filler; it's detail about how offer determined. So we should preserve it. So Pay section can have two sentences: the range and the factors. Thus Pay:
The annual