College Recruitment Advisor

Texas A&M University • College Station, TX

116d • $16

About The Position

As a College Recruitment Advisor, you'll play a pivotal role in helping high school students navigate the exciting journey of researching, applying to, and enrolling in colleges that will shape their futures. If you're ready to make a difference, we invite you to apply and join our dynamic team!

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an institution in the state of Texas
• No experience required

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with high school students
• Experience working with Admissions and/or Financial Aid
• Background in general office conditions with significant time spent working with high school students
• Bilingual in English and Spanish

Responsibilities

• Provides one-on-one admissions and financial-aid advice to any student or family seeking assistance.
• Encourages each student to consider a broad range of appropriate college choices.
• Develops for each student a comprehensive college timeline, including application deadlines for admissions and financial aid.
• Helps each student complete and submit admissions, scholarships, and financial aid applications.
• Assists each student in interpreting correspondence from colleges, including offers of admission and financial aid.
• May travel to various high schools and other locations to perform advising and program work.
• Organizes group events that encourage students and their families to consider, plan for, and apply to colleges and universities.
• Visits classrooms, assemblies, and club meetings to offer Advise TX services and emphasize the importance of college.
• Visits feeder middle schools to encourage early planning for college.
• Works with local community groups and other social-service providers to offer group events outside school setting and community service hours.
• Assists in the efforts of other Advise TX advisers within the service area and in the assessment and long-term sustainability of the program.
• Visits other high schools in their assigned service area during school days.
• Helps organize, provide support for, and attend evening and weekend events organized by other adviser(s).
• Assists the program manager and evaluation staff to identify, collect, and interpret key progress and outcome variables to evaluate the effectiveness of the Advise TX program.
• Submits monthly progress reports to the program manager documenting progress and outcome data.
• Meets, as appropriate, with evaluators from the National Office or Texas A&M.
• Represents Advise TX, as requested by the program manager, to potential supporters and to other interested parties.
• Establishes productive working relationships with principals, counselors, and teachers in the assigned high school.
• Assesses, in consultation with the Advise TX program manager and school personnel, the particular needs of each school and adapts programs and activities to meet these needs.
• Actively seeks the advice and counsel of the on-site supervisor at each partner high school.
• Maintains expertise in admissions and financial aid advising.
• Participates fully in four weeks of residential training each summer on the Texas A&M campus.
• In consultation with the program manager, seeks out and participates in other opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life and long-term disability insurance with Texas A&M contributing to employee health and basic life premiums
• 12-15 days of annual paid holidays
• Eight hours of paid sick leave and at least eight hours of paid vacation each month
• Automatically enrollment in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas
• Health and Wellness: Free exercise programs and release time
• Professional Development: All employees have access to free LinkedIn Learning training and webinars
• Employee Tuition Assistance and Educational Release time for completing a degree while a Texas A&M employee

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Educational Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree