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The College of New Jersey Hiring for Director, Advising Support Center at Ewing, NJ Full Time
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Description Final offer of employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check and reference checks.
To enrich education through diversity, TCNJ is an Equal Opportunity Employer. TCNJ has a strong commitment to inclusive excellence and is working to promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and racial justice among our faculty, staff, and students. We strongly encourage a host of diverse, intersectional populations and cultures to apply including, but not limited to, identities based on race, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, disability, national origin, and veteran status.
Job Title: Director, Advising Support Center
Job Category: Non-Unit Administrator
Post Date: August 15, 2023
Close Date: N/A
Salary Range: $95,000 – $115,000
For non-unit positions, salary commensurate with experience and is accompanied by a competitive benefits package.
Position Summary:
The Division of Academic Affairs at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) seeks candidates for the position of Director of the Advising Support Center. Reporting to the Vice Provost, this inaugural role will provide campus-wide strategic leadership, expertise, and oversight in best-practice undergraduate advising for a new, campus-wide Advising Support Center. The college has an overall decentralized academic advising structure, and the center’s director will work collaboratively with school deans and assistant deans, department chairs, faculty advisors, and professional staff whose responsibilities are related to academic advising, to foster excellence in advising and to strengthen the culture of advising. The director and center will work in collaboration with a number of offices, such as the Career Center and Center for Student Success and Mentoring, as well as the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning to provide campus-wide training events and community building. The director will also provide direct advising to students, which may include students who begin college without a declared major (i.e., undeclared, exploratory), students with declared majors from high-demand areas, and/or students with complex situations (e.g., transitioning between majors, experiencing academic barriers to graduation). The director will build the center; initially supervising, training, and mentoring one full-time staff member, two graduate student assistants, and student peer advisors. The director will also develop an assessment strategy that fosters continuous improvement in advising.
Main Responsibilities:
- Provide campus-wide leadership, expertise, and oversight in best-practice student advising.
- Develop strategic and long-term plans for the Advising Support Center, its mission and vision, its staffing, and its procedures and practices to optimize advising and support institution-wide initiatives.
- Lead, mentor, and supervise the persons serving in the Advising Support Center.
- Provide training opportunities in advising best practices to faculty, staff, and students, including developmental and inclusive advising.
- Serve as advisor for select populations of students.
- Design and implement a continuous improvement model for the assessment of advising by relying on institutional data and data collected within the Advising Support Center.
- Engage at the national level with the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA), participate in ongoing professional development/conferences.
Work Duties:
- 20% Weekly: Supervise staff and manage center, including budgets and professional development activities.
- 35% weekly: Collaborate with faculty, staff, assistant deans, and deans to develop and implement advising training, including new faculty, new chairs, whole departments or schools, new assistant deans/deans, and center graduate assistants and undergraduate student workers. Partner with Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning to offer advising workshops, at both introductory and advanced levels, and with Career Center to prepare advisors to support their advisee’s exploration of career and graduate school options. Collaborate with the Center for Student Success and Mentoring.
- 35% weekly: Provide direct developmental and transactional advising to select populations of undergraduate students. These may include: 1) undeclared general students, 2) undesignated transitional students, and/or 3) first- and possibly second-year students in select, overpopulated academic programs, as identified by the Office of Academic Affairs.
- 5% weekly: Serve on college governance committees, councils, and task forces that inform and support the work of the center.
- 5% weekly: Carry out other duties as assigned by the Vice Provost in support of strategic goals in Academic Affairs.
Required Qualifications:
· Education/Credentials
o Master’s degree from an accredited institution in an area related to the position, such as Counseling, Career Counseling or Development, Education and Human Development, Higher Education Administration, Higher Education Leadership, Psychology, Social Work, or a related field.
o Affiliation with the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA)
· Experience/Knowledge in Undergraduate Advising
o Five years’ experience of progressively responsible experience, demonstrating advising and higher education management experience.
o Significant experience with training others in advising best practices.
o Familiarity with the use of current technology in advising.
o Experience advising undergraduate students in a range of programs.
· Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
o Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively and respectively with persons with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
o Demonstrated understanding of the advising needs of diverse groups (e.g., low-socioeconomic, first-generation, underrepresented students of color, non-traditional, and individuals needing additional support for college-level work).
· Management/Leadership
o Demonstrated ability to foster a cooperative and team environment
o Record of setting strategic goals and working with teams to accomplish these goals.
o Experience with budgets, including involvement in developing budgets and managing expenses.
o A record of building productive and collaborative working relationships across campus.
o Demonstrated ability to lead change.
· General Skills
o Evidence of exemplary interpersonal and communication skills.
o Possess excellent planning and analytical skills, including the ability to make strategic decisions independently.
o Facility with current technology.
· Assessment
o Experience using data for program assessment and evaluation, and applying institutional data to promote actionable improvements.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Over 5 years of administrative experience in higher education, and 3+ years of direct supervisory experience in leading and managing a team within student success, academic advising, career development, or a related area in a college/university setting.
- Experience teaching at the college level.
Persons with disabilities may request reasonable accommodations in order to perform the essential functions of the position. If the requested accommodation(s) cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, the applicant may not be eligible for the position.
Employer Qualifications:
About TCNJ
Founded in 1855, TCNJ is a selective public institution that has earned national recognition for its commitment to excellence. TCNJ enrolls approximately 7,400 students, including 6,790 undergraduates and 610 graduate students, 30% of whom are self-described as members of groups traditionally underrepresented in academe. Strong curricular and co-curricular programming have helped foster a first-year to sophomore retention rate of 90%, a 4-year graduation rate of 75% (8th highest in the U.S. for public institutions), and a 6-year graduation rate of 87% (among the highest in the country). Five signature experiences are the hallmark of a TCNJ education: a personalized, collaborative, and rigorous education; undergraduate research, mentored internships, and field experiences; community engaged learning; global engagement; and leadership development. TCNJ has also received national recognition for the adoption and promotion of the teacher-scholar model for our faculty. A strong liberal arts core forms the foundation for programs offered through TCNJ’s seven academic schools—Arts and Communication; Business; Education; Engineering; Humanities and Social Sciences; Nursing and Health Sciences; and Science. TCNJ has a strong Phi Beta Kappa chapter—an honor shared by less than 10 percent of colleges and universities nationally.
Among other initiatives, a series of faculty/staff-based affinity groups (e.g., Minority Executive Council, Women’s Professional Network, Parent and Family Network, TCNJ PRIDE) supports a welcoming, supportive, and inclusive environment at TCNJ.
TCNJ is located within an hour of New York City and Philadelphia. The college’s campus is set on 289 tree-lined acres in suburban Ewing Township and is known for its natural beauty. In addition to its growing racial and ethnic diversity, the region offers excellent public schools, prestigious medical centers, restaurants, art and entertainment, as well as numerous cultural and recreational activities.
Application Instructions
Qualified candidates should apply online at: [email protected] and submit a letter of interest, resume (CV), as well as the names and contact information for three professional references. Applications will be considered until a viable candidate is selected.
Salary is competitive and commensurate with education and experience. This position includes a comprehensive benefits package and generous sick and vacation leave.
SAME Applicants
If you are applying under the New Jersey “SAME” program, your supporting documents (Schedule A or B letter), resume (CV), as well as the names and contact information for three professional references by the closing date listed above to: [email protected]. For more information on the SAME program visit their website at: https://nj.gov/csc/same/overview/index.shtml, email: [email protected], or call CSC at: 833-691-0404.
In accordance with the New Jersey First Act P.L. 2011 c.70, effective September 1, 2011, new public employees in certain positions (faculty exempt) are required to obtain New Jersey residency within one (1) year of employment. Applicants must meet the requirements listed.
Primary Location: Green Hall – Academic Affairs
Work Locations:
Green Hall – Academic Affairs (Green Hall – Academic Affairs)
2000 Pennington Rd
Ewing Township, 08628
Job: Staff
Organization: The College of New Jersey
Job Posting: Aug 15, 2023, 11:33:59 AM
