Job Description

The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences advances the discovery, dissemination, and application of knowledge and creativity and \xe2\x80\x93 by building the academic programs for tomorrow \xe2\x80\x93 educates students to be critical and imaginative thinkers and engaged citizens for a world increasingly characterized by diversity and change.

Our mission is supported by the values that inform the founding principles of liberal education:

Intellectual Integrity: In the pursuit of knowledge and creativity, we are committed to rigorous and authentic intellectual inquiry.

Community: As teachers, researchers, and engaged citizens, we recognize our interconnectedness to both local and global communities and our responsibility to improving their health and vibrancy.

Diversity and Inclusion: We encourage a culture of intellectual and personal inclusion that rises above simplistic labels, and provides the means for understanding and negotiating the range of perspectives, experiences, and traditions essential to living ethically in an interdependent global culture.

Access: We understand that access to higher education for all qualified students builds a self-reflective and informed citizenship. Further, a diverse cohort of people learning and working together constitutes the core of liberal education.

Ethical Behavior: We hold to the highest standards of honesty, truth, fairness, respect, and social responsibility, respecting the dignity, diversity, and rights of all individuals and groups of people.

Academic Freedom and Responsibility: The CLAS academic community of educators and scholars engage in the free search for truth and its free exposition in its various disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields of knowledge. Likewise, it understands its responsibility to adhere to legitimate intellectual and professional criteria, not personal beliefs, political views, religious or other individual preferences, except as these may demonstrably affect intellectual and professional achievement.

Innovation and Creativity: Innovation, measured risk-taking, meaningful novelty, honored traditions, and creativity are innate features of our collective. The college embraces an entrepreneurial ethos that situates our community at the vanguard of teaching, research and professional service in the liberal arts and sciences across our regional, national and global communities.


Primary Purpose of Position
Provide accurate academic advising to students with a major or minor in the Department of Psychological Science as well as to any student who is interested in pursuing the Psychology major or minor. Advising services encompass a range of interactions with students which include individual and/or small group in-person or virtual appointments to email and social media campaigns, among others.


Summary of Position Responsibilities

The primary role academic advisor is primarily an implementer of a developmental advising model that involves a tailored series of interactions and communications using advising tools and systems designed to address the specific needs of the students served by the Department of Psychological Science. This tailored, developmental approach acknowledges that individual student profiles and those of student cohorts may differ not only at the onset of the student academic experience, but throughout their academic career. The advisor must have the experience, education, and background necessary to serve the educational function of an advisor, however the advisor is doing so in a context developed by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and in collaboration with other departmental colleagues and the CLAS Director of Advising. Specific functional areas include:

• Academic advising.
• Orientation and outreach.
• Targeted advising.
• Instruction (Include teaching if part of position responsibilities).
• Other duties which may include evaluation of transfer course equivalencies, dissemination of advising updates to faculty advisors in the department, and serve as the substitute advisor in the faculty advisor\xe2\x80\x99s absence.

Minimum Education/Experience

• Master\xe2\x80\x99s degree, preferably in Psychology or a liberal arts and sciences discipline.
• Two years of experience involving student academic advising in a higher education setting. Attentive to detail, possess strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize while multi-tasking and manage tasks in an efficient and timely manner.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal problem-solving skills are a must.
• Ability to interact effectively with advisees, staff and faculty required.
• Comprehend and abide by federal and university student confidentiality requirements.
• Proficient use of computers (Microsoft Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and the Google suite of applications) is necessary.

Preferred Education, Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Two years of advising experience after the attainment of the Master\xe2\x80\x99s degree is preferred.
• Working knowledge of Banner and EAB is a plus.
• Experience teaching a freshman seminar or student success seminar is also preferred.
• Experience managing large case loads of students is a must.
• Experience with conducting group advising sessions is preferred.

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Special Notes to Applicants

UNC Charlotte Benefits Information: https://hr.charlotte.edu/benefits

The finalist will be subject to a Criminal Background Check.

Please upload reference information including names, position titles and company/institutions, phone numbers, and email addresses of at least two current/previous supervisors.

• The Search Committee will not contact references without first verifying permission with the finalist.

Please ensure your full range of knowledge, skills, abilities, experience, and education are listed on your application.

If you answer the questions at the end of the application, please ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills, abilities, and experiences to support your answers (see job duties section of previous employment).

• Failure to answer the questions at the end of the application will not preclude your application from being considered but may result in your application not receiving full consideration of your knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Please submit a resume and cover letter with your application.

• These documents will be used to evaluate your written communication skills as well as supporting documents of your knowledge, skills, abilities, education, and professional experience.

Posting Open Date
04/12/2023


Posting Close Date



Open Until Filled
Yes


Proposed Hire Date
05/08/2023


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