Graduate and Pre-Health Success Advisor

Goucher College • Towson, MD

20d

About The Position

The Graduate & Prehealth Success Advisor (GPSA) supports the success of Goucher College students in several programs by providing academic advising within select graduate and prehealth programs to facilitate career advising, course selection, and registration. The GPSA also serves as a link between students, their instructors, support services, and program directors. Within the Graduate Programs in Education, the GPSA is chiefly responsible for advising graduate students, monitoring their progress, and assisting with degree conferrals. Within the Prehealth Program, the GPSA is primarily responsible for advising undergraduate studentsorganizing relevant programming, and preparing them for their health professions application.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• One year of experience in graduate, undergraduate, or career/professional setting advising.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree
• Three years of experience in graduate, undergraduate, and/or career/professional setting advising.
• Experience working with and/or advising adult educators in a PreK-12 academic system and working with graduate students in an academic program.

Responsibilities

• Provide live or virtual academic advising to active graduate students in the Graduate Programs in Education (approximately 300). This includes, but is not limited to, academic planning; monitoring and facilitating course selection, registration, add/drop, and withdrawal; and conducting student outreach to update and maintain accurate and detailed advising records and meeting notes that are accessible to the programmatic teams.
• Assist students with academic plan adjustments and navigating the resources, expectations, and challenges of being a Goucher College graduate student, and connect students with appropriate college resources/services, as needed.
• Manage active and inactive graduate students (those expected to return) and assist with readmittance and petition processes.
• Assist with graduate program degree conferral reviews and confirmations of programmatic requirements.
• Assist program directors with student announcements, outreach, and/or marketing.
• Provide academic advising and career coaching to undergraduate prehealth students. This includes, but is not limited to, academic planning, course selection, programming, and helping students secure relevant clinical experiences in the following areas: medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, optometry, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and physician assistant programs.
• The advisor will also be responsible for application-related support, to include reading and editing application essays and personal statements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees