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Senior Academic Advisor - School of Arts and Sciences
Tufts University
Application
Details
Posted: 09-May-26
Location: Medford, Massachusetts
Internal Number: 23116
Overview
The professionals in Undergraduate Education foster student growth, empowerment, and success by serving, advising, guiding, nurturing, and celebrating our students, and working with them and our faculty to solve problems so that students may successfully navigate the university. We focus on the academic aspect of students? lives at Tufts, providing information, advice, and support to help them successfully complete their degrees in a timely manner while ensuring that our students have an enriching and rewarding academic experience. To that end, we provide students with tutoring, advising, academic support, direction, and accurate information. We also provide academic enrichment programs and opportunities so that students may reach their full potential and achieve their best. We collaborate with faculty and other departments to advocate for students and improve the academic experience for all students as well as the policies governing undergraduate study at Tufts.
What You'll Do
The Senior Academic Advisor serves as a proactive academic advisor to undeclared undergraduate students. The Senior Academic Advisor supports students in their engagement with the curriculum, helps them navigate university procedures and make informed decisions about choice of major, and acts as an accessible source for information about curriculum requirements, course selection, and campus resources. Supporting the Dean of Undergraduate Studies and the Associate Deans of Undergraduate Advising, the Senior Academic Advisor provides logistical support, programming, research, and data analysis for a team-based approach to pre-major advising, New Student Orientation, the First Year Experience, and undergraduate retention efforts at Tufts. This is a hybrid position. This position will work in person for at least half the work week during the fall and spring semesters while classes are in session, with more flexibility for remote work over the summer and during school breaks. There are periods of time and events in which in-person participation is required. Occasional evening or weekend hours may be required.
Counsels and advises students on academic program including course selection and requirements for majors and areas of concentration; develops and provides expertise on a disciplinary group of majors
Assists students in making appropriate educational choices and decisions
Provides advice and coordination with Career Services for research, internship and employment opportunities.
Provides advice and resources for study abroad.
Conducts group information sessions as well as individual counseling
Collaborates with and identifies University resources to support student and faculty advising
Guide students as they adjust to college life and learning and help navigate university policies and procedures.
Manages advising for special student constituency or program area. *Support curriculum-based advising of undecided students.
Collaborates with Office of Student Affairs to proactively identify students of concern
Participates in Students of Concern weekly meeting
Maintaing discretion and student privacy when communicating with faculty, staff, and other students
Deploys resources (web, print, personnel) to better communicate academic policies
Maintains and updates text for school section of Tufts Bulletin
Writes and updates orientation materials and documentation
Reviews and approve student petitions, forms
Conducts degree certification with student records team
Creates and distributes reports for faculty and administration
Works with technology services to streamline review processes (degree certification, academic standing, internal transfer) and to move toward digital student records
Works with technology services to implement and verify SIS rules changes related to new credit system
Works with technology services to streamline review processes (degree certification, academic standing, internal transfer) and to move toward digital student records
Works with technology services to implement and verify SIS rules changes related to new credit system
What We're Looking For
Basic Requirements: Knowledge and experience typically acquired by:
Bachelor's Degree
Two or more years? experience in college or university setting as an instructor, advisor, tutor, mentor or administrator
Commitment to advising, mentoring, and guiding college students
Superior interpersonal skills, including flexibility and approachability
Excellent skills in written and oral communication; able to write, edit, and proofread educational documents and other publications. Confidence and experience in teaching, public speaking, or giving effective presentations before large groups
Proficient with technology, including various software programs and applications for writing documents, making spreadsheets, creating databases, producing brochures and slideshows, and communicating through web-based audio-video services
Ability to work independently, think on one?s feet, set priorities, and manage time effectively.
Preferred Qualifications:
Master's Degree in Education, Higher Education, Counseling or relevant field
Additional experience working in the arts or other areas of university student services, such as student affairs, campus life programs, college learning center, multicultural affairs, bridge programs, and retention programs is beneficial
Dedication to serving and supporting a diverse student population, including students of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, students with disabilities, and students who do not conform to gender stereotypes
Proficient with a variety of social media platforms and tools for sharing documents, images, and video online
Pay Range
Minimum $54,500.00, Midpoint $68,100.00, Maximum $81,700.00
Salary is based on related experience, expertise, and internal equity; generally, new hires can expect pay between the minimum and midpoint of the range.
This is Tufts.
Tufts is a student-centered research university with a constellation of world-class schools encompassing undergraduate, graduate, professional, and lifelong learning programs. Across the university, students satisfy their intellectual curiosity, jump-start rewarding careers, and unlock bright, promising futures. Through rigorous academics, groundbreaking research, and a commitment to civic engagement and leadership, our community of students, faculty, and staff collaborate across four Massachusetts campuses to build a brighter world (Medford/Somerville, Grafton, Boston-Chinatown, and Boston-Fenway).
Our employees light the way.
Tufts develops innovative solutions for the most complex global challenges of our time through teaching, research, and an unparalleled investment in civic engagement. In administration and operations, in dining centers and in labs, every employee plays a role in our mission for a better, brighter world.
At Tufts, the work you do matters. So do you.
Enjoy flexible and remote opportunities, innovative benefits, and an inclusive, welcoming, collaborative culture that supports you. Develop your skills. Take classes. Advance your career. ...Do work that makes you proud in a community you love. All while taking great care of yourself and the people who matter most.
We’re all in on creating an anti-racist culture of belonging.
Across Tufts, we’ve deepened our commitment to making the university a truly inclusive place. Where every member of our community contributes and feels like they belong. Where diverse perspectives are seen as our strength, and great ideas are always heard. In offices, labs, classrooms, and beyond, we’re doing this work together, knowing it is the foundation of our mission to create a brighter world.
An innovative university needs resourceful people who make things happen.
Here, collaboration isn’t just a buzzword, colleagues actually care, and community means everything. Sound appealing? Come join us. Choose a campus and find the role that fits you. Tufts University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our faculty and staff and fostering their success when hired. Members of underrepresented groups are welcome and strongly encouraged to apply.
See the University’s Non-Discrimination statement and policy here https://oeo.tufts.edu/policies-procedures/non-discrimination/.
If you are an applicant with a disability who is unable to use our online tools to search and apply for jobs, please contact us by calling the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) at 617-627-3298 or at oeo@tufts.edu. Applicants can learn more about requesting reasonable accommodations at https://oeo.tufts.edu/