Student Success Advisor

Southern Utah University • Cedar City, UT

17h

About The Position

Student Success Advisors provide academic advising, career guidance, and holistic support focused on students’ well-being beyond the classroom. They build meaningful relationships that help students make informed educational decisions and inspire, motivate, and challenge them to achieve on-time degree completion. The role contributes to student retention, persistence, and completion by helping students plan for academic, personal, and career goals. The position is contingent on funding.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Demonstrated ability to build rapport and meaningful relationships with students and campus colleagues.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to build strong, authentic relationships with students from a variety of backgrounds.
• Ability to collaborate with teammates and work independently in support of institutional and team goals.
• Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to synthesize data and act on complex information.
• Experience using and comfort with technology, including student information systems and basic Office programs, and ability and willingness to learn new computer-based programs quickly.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in higher education, counseling, or a closely related field.
• Experience working in a higher education setting; at least two years of academic advising experience is strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of current and emerging trends related to student affairs, retention, and completion.
• Knowledge of student development theories and their application in an advising setting.
• Knowledge of or experience with the specific academic area of assignment.

Responsibilities

• Provide holistic advising by building relationships with students and empowering them to make effective decisions about their education.
• Help students understand academic requirements, degree audit tools, registration, and enrollment processes.
• Meet individually with students to identify strengths and challenges and develop success plans that address their needs and offer academic, personal, and campus engagement opportunities.
• Proactively contact new and continuing students to create or modify completion plans that support their personal, career, and academic goals.
• Advise incoming first-year and transfer students throughout enrollment, including occasional recruitment events, to help prepare them for success at SUU.
• Function as a Strong Certified Practitioner and conduct career assessments to help students refine career goals and plans.
• Maintain knowledge of university resources for student finances, holistic wellness, academic support, and other high-need services; refer students and follow up as needed.
• Collaborate with college faculty, staff, administrators, and campus colleagues and partners on enrollment, retention, and completion initiatives.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time