Job Summary
The First-Year Engineering advising team serves approximately 3000 engineering students and helps students transition from high school to college and then from the First-Year Engineering Program to one of the Engineering professional schools. This advising role will include assistance with course selection, navigating Banner/MyPurdue Plan and the registration system, providing information to assist students with choosing an engineering major, career planning, and related advising duties. You will communicate with students having academic difficulty as well as work with a team of faculty, and other Purdue professionals to maximize student access and success in the First-Year Engineering Program as well as Purdue overall.
This is a hybrid position (4 days on-site / 1 day remote).
Who We Are
The School of Engineering Education (ENE) at Purdue University envisions a more inclusive socially connected and scholarly engineering education. This implies that we radically rethink the boundaries of engineering and the purpose of engineering education. Our mission to transform engineering education based on scholarship and research rests on three pillars: Re-imagining engineering and engineering education, creating field-shaping knowledge, and empowering agents of change. To learn more, please visit: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ENE
What We Are Looking For
Education and Experience:
- Master's degree in a field relevant to the position
- Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to:
- collaborate with faculty, staff, current and prospective students, parents, and families
- problem solve and utilize campus resources for individuals or groups
- willingness to work in a changing environment
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Preferred:
- Undergraduate student development and recruitment
- Programs and majors at Purdue University
- Field related to major advised
Additional Information
- The salary for this position is $46,000
- Purdue will not sponsor employment authorization for this position
- A background check will be required for employment in this position
- FLSA: Exempt (Not Eligible For Overtime)
- Retirement Eligibility: Defined Contribution Waiting Period
- Purdue University is an EOE/AA employer. All individuals, including minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply
Benefits of being an advisor at Purdue
- The Advisor Certification Program is a centralized professional development opportunity that allows new advisors to develop their foundational skills in a cohort with other new advisors. Advisors receive real-time feedback and training, including mentoring experience.
- Inclusive Advising is a unique learning experience for academic advisors that is grounded in the specific voices and experiences of Purdue students and advisors. Inclusive Advising learning opportunities are cohort-based and designed to encourage learning and intentional reflection. Inclusive advising centers the student in an asset-framed approach where the advisor differentiates educational guidance to meet students where they are and acknowledges the critical value of each student’s unique social capital.
- Purdue has an institutional commitment to an advising ratio of 225:1, providing one of the lowest advising caseloads in the country.
- PACADA, The Purdue Academic Advising Association, is the longest-standing allied membership in NACADA, with a proud tradition of 36 years of professional development support and community among Purdue advisors.
Career Stream
Professional 2
Pay Band S055
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Job Code #20002152
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Effective August 1, 2022, a background check will be required for all internal employees who have not had one within the last year.