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Student Life Advisor(*Restricted)
Job Description
Student Life Advisor(*Restricted)
Agency: Northern VA Community College
Location: Alexandria - 510
FLSA: Non-Exempt
Hiring Range: $51,000 - $61,000
Full Time or Part Time: Full Time
Additional Detail
Job Description:
General Description:
The Student Life Advisor will assist in providing student engagement activities including, but not limited to, social and cultural events, involvement in student clubs and organizations, and developing student leadership opportunities to NOVA students. The advisor will work with the Student Life Coordinator to develop training and recognition programs for student leaders and coordinates travel and volunteer opportunities for NVCC students.
Duties and Tasks:
The Student Life Advisor:
The Student Life Advisor will assist in providing student engagement activities including, but not limited to, social and cultural events, involvement in student clubs and organizations, and developing student leadership opportunities to NOVA students. The advisor will work with the Student Life Coordinator to develop training and recognition programs for student leaders and coordinates travel and volunteer opportunities for NVCC students.
Duties and Tasks:
The Student Life Advisor:
- Is Responsible for assisting in the coordination of student clubs.
- Assists the Student Life Coordinator in providing program coordination oversight and travel arrangements for registered student organizations.
- Will assist in managing and reconciles student organizations club accounts.
- Assists the Student Life Coordinator in advising student leaders on academic issues and their development in their leadership roles.
- Assists the Student Life Coordinator in planning, implementing and evaluating major student life campus and college-wide educational and leadership programs including conferences, retreats and the leadership training workshop series.
- Assists with the development and revision of college-wide Student Life policy manuals.
- Advises students on club creation, development and renewals as well as the coordination of all recognition and procedural documents required of college student organizations.
- Other duties as assigned
- This position is restricted and is funded with non-continuous or non-recurring funding and is subject to continuation based on fiscal year funds and the needs of the College.
Minimum Qualifications:
Required KSAs:
- Ability to travel as needed.
- Ability to assist the Student Life Coordinator with campus/college-wide events as needed.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with students, parents and college personnel including administrators, faculty and staff .
- Ability to assist in advising students on program development and management, purchasing, college policies and procedures, and state and federal regulations related to student life programming.
- Ability to refer students to campus or community resources .
- Ability to assist in planning, implementing and evaluating student leadership training programs including retreats, conferences, and workshop series .
- Ability to teach transferable skills in organization/delegation, meeting organization, and ethical decision making.
- Ability to work with students and faculty advisors in campus organizations.
- Ability to work effectively with a highly diverse student population .
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a diverse student population.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks in a timely manner .
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills . Ability to work nights and weekends as needed.
- Ability to coordinate and facilitate collaborations with student groups, academic departments, administrative departments, and the community .
- Working knowledge of current trends in Higher Education Understanding of Social Justice issues on college campuses
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
- Experience working collaboratively with a wide variety of college students, faculty, and staff members
- Experience event planning in a college setting
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in higher education, student affairs, counseling, education, social sciences or a related field
- Some experience working with college students in a student life, student activities, diversity and inclusion/multicultural services, or residential life department.
- Some experience advising and overseeing college student organizations.
- Significant experience in event planning
- Purchasing experience, preferably Commonwealth of Virginia purchasing experience using eVA
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