Careers Job Description
General Description
Academic Advisor
Lehman College is seeking an Academic Advisor for a recently awarded 5-year grant: Pathways to Student STEM Success: Using High Impact Practices to Improve STEM Enrollment, Retention, Transfer and Graduation. The advisor, cross-trained in advisement, admissions, and financial aid policies, will be located at Lehman College to meet with cohort and individual students on a regular basis. The primary responsibility is to advise students on academic policies, degree requirements, admissions processes, and financial aid procedures to ensure that students stay on track and are successful in completing their degree.
About the Pathways to Student STEM Success Program
Pathways to Student STEM Success (PTS3) is a coherent and collaborative program that will engage senior and community college students in activities designed to build their social and cultural capital through: intensive advisement; master of academic content and skills; and participation in STEM activities that are central to STEM interest, efficacy, and success. PTS3 will also address administrative barriers that plague transfer students through joint planning and collaborative implementation with Bronx Community College (BCC) and Hostos Community College (HCC).
Other Duties
- Meet with STEM cohort and individual students on a regular basis.
- Facilitate the admissions application process for high school students
- Counsel applicants and students on eligibility for financial aid programs and assist them in the application process
- Schedule and host events on a regular basis at academic partner institutions and at Lehman to promote transfer
- Develop and maintain relationships with faculty and staff at all campuses and partner institutions
- Expand and promote STEM articulation agreements between community colleges and Lehman College
- May require evening hours
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate area of specialization required, Master’s degree preferred
- Two years of academic advising experience, preferably with at-risk students
- Excellent communication skills
- Computer skills including MS Office (required) and PeopleSoft (preferred)
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.
RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
HSI:STEM Grant
Full Time
$46,000.00
Dec 18, 2016 (Or Until Filled)