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Academic Advising

The Academic Advising Manager oversees advising programs; directs professional/faculty adviser training; ensure students are equipped to make well-informed academic decisions through assessment of alternatives, use of academic resources, and navigation of University, college, and departmental policies.

• Direct and provide academic planning and advising for assigned college/campus students; develop and implement assessment plans
• Administer testing, consulting, advising and related programs/services for designated student populations; may be responsible for provisional enrollment programs
• Direct academic advising training and development for faculty and professional advisers
• Direct the creation and appropriate dissemination of changes in program curricula, policies, procedures, and other academic information
• Direct unit assessment; analyze data and recommend policy/procedure modifications; propose process and technology improvements
• Direct recruitment and retention activities
• May teach in accordance with academic unit/campus policies
• May speak on behalf of the unit as prescribed by senior administration; work with peers from across the University to discuss common issues
• May direct strategic planning for the unit
• Provide budget information; assist in forecasting staffing and program resource requirements; exercise established expenditure authorization; may delegate responsibility for developing budgets to lower-level manager(s); ensure accuracy
• Plan and carry out complex assignments; recommend new methods, approaches, and procedures; provide advice and guidance on issues impacting programs and policies
• Supervise, hire, evaluate, and train staff, students, and volunteers

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 – 11
• Minimum – $68,200.00
• MidPoint – $85,200.00
• Maximum – $102,300.00