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Student Athlete Advising

The Student Athlete Advising Manager is responsible for leading and managing a team of Student Athlete Advisers who provide academic support, advising, and eligibility tracking for student-athletes; ensures the successful implementation of academic support strategies that promote student-athlete development, retention, and graduation, while maintaining compliance with institutional, conference, and NCAA regulations; serves as a liaison to Athletics, Faculty, Compliance, and campus partners; oversees program assessment, staff development, and service delivery.

• Provide leadership and support to Student Athlete Advisers, including hiring, onboarding, training, performance evaluation, and ongoing professional development
• Establish clear expectations and goals aligned with departmental and institutional priorities
• Oversee staff workload, training, team assignments, and coverage for assigned sports
• Coordinate and communicate with student athlete development and enrichment team, ICA administration, coaches, prospective students on new student
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and student-centered advising culture
• Ensure consistent delivery of high-quality academic advising, academic progress monitoring, and eligibility services for student-athletes
• Oversee the implementation of individualized academic support plans in collaboration with tutorial and learning services staff
• Coordinate efforts to support student-athletes facing academic or personal challenges, including crisis management and referrals
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of academic support and enrichment programs, including study halls, life skills workshops, orientations, and bridge programs
• Assist with the Nittany Lion Degree Completion Program in coordination with Intercollegiate Athletics administration, the Morgan Academic Center Director, and sport administrators
• Guide the development and assessment of student success outcomes, including metrics that may be leading indicators of student retention and persistence
• Oversee systems for tracking NCAA academic metrics, including graduation success rate and academic progress rate
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting of academic progress, eligibility status, and degree audits in collaboration with the Athletics Compliance Office and the Registrar
• Interpret and enforce NCAA, Big Ten, and institutional academic policies and procedures
• Collect, analyze, and report data on academic performance, retention, graduation rates, and program outcomes to inform strategic improvements
• Contribute to the development of departmental goals, policies, and procedures
• Identify and address systemic barriers to student-athlete academic success
• Serve as a key liaison to coaches, faculty, college academic advisers, and other campus stakeholders
• Promote cross-departmental collaboration to support the holistic development of student-athletes
• Represent the department in meetings, committees, and recruiting events
• Provide oversight and support for the delivery of first-year seminars or academic courses taught by staff; assist with curriculum development and instructional planning

Level:

– Senior Manager

Base Description:

– Manages direct reports where primary duty is the management of a working unit.

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates advanced skills in critical functions related to unit's success. Demonstrates advanced knowledge of emerging technologies and processes. Monitors completed work of others to ensure effectiveness and adherence to requirements. Sets clear expectations and holds team accountable. Establishes a shared team/unit vision. Demonstrates ability to evaluate and enhance team/unit practices that promote a strong commitment to inclusionary practices. Coaches others using appropriate strategies. Demonstrates diplomacy. Demonstrates ability to serve as liaison between senior-level management and staff. Resolves complex, controversial, or unprecedented issues and problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees large team or teams of individual contributors and/or supervisors/managers
– Leads a department or functional area

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Monitors and tracks large budgets
– Plans, forecasts, and/or develops budgets
– May approve budgets for specific area
– Typically has final signature authority for specific area

Problem Solving:

– Encounters highly varied and complex problems that impacts the team and possibly the unit
– Develops creative and/or novel approaches to resolve problems that are difficult in nature
– Independently resolves complex and/or unprecedented issues and problems

Independence of Action:

– Work results are not clearly defined
– Generally sets own goals and determines how to accomplish results with few or no guidelines to follow
– Monitors completed work of others to ensure soundness of approach, effectiveness of meeting requirements, the feasibility of recommendations and adherences to requirements
– Delegates more advanced tasks to others

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– Collaborates closely with team members and various areas across the University
– Fosters collaboration between units and engages others' coordinated efforts to reach desired outcomes with broad scope

• Comp Grade – 12
• Minimum – $76,700.00
• MidPoint – $95,900.00
• Maximum – $115,100.00