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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:

– Manager

Base Description:

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

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates proficient ability in work design, project management, financial planning and development of goals for accomplishing unit assignments. Reviews and guides work to ensure conformity to policy and effective approaches. Evaluates employee performance and recommend development opportunities. Demonstrates ability to coach employees. Presents and communicates key university indicatives and connects it to unit contributions. Provides broad guidelines. Develops, evaluates, enhances, and/or implements quality improvement practices. Recommends innovative solutions.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees a team (typically 4 or more; no fewer than 2) full
– time direct reports of individual contributors and/or first level supervisors.

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Monitors and tracks department/area budget
– May plan, forecast, and/or assist in developing budgets
– May have final signature authority for specific area

Problem Solving:

– Encounters varied and complex problems
– Helps to develop creative and/or novel approaches to resolve problems that are difficult in nature but within limited scope
– Modifies, adapts, or refines guidelines if necessary to resolve issues or problems

Independence of Action:

– Works independently on complex or strategic assignments
– Uses existing practices and advanced working knowledge to determine appropriate work methods for the team
– Reviews completed work of others for conformity to policy, and effectiveness of approach
– Delegates 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
– Prepares written and/or verbal presentations or proposals on complex issues and delivers to a broad variety of audiences
– Communicates key university initiatives and how unit’s work contributes to their achievement
– Presents ideas, concepts and instructions in a clear manner, and uses persuasion and negotiation to build consensus and cooperation
– Establishes and maintains networks to facilitate successful communication among units

• Comp Grade – 11
• Minimum – $72,300.00
• MidPoint – $90,312.00
• Maximum – $108,444.00

• Academic support
• Advising
• Business relationship management
• Coaching
• Collaboration
• Continuous improvement
• Crisis management
• Cultural competency
• Data Analysis
• Data reporting
• Policy analysis
• Policy implementation
• Stakeholder engagement
• Student Development
• Talent Management