College Recruitment Advisor

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Department

What we want

Are you passionate about guiding the next generation towards their dreams

As aCollege Recruitment Advisor youll play a pivotal role in helping high school students navigate the exciting journey of researching applying to and enrolling in colleges that will shape their futures. If youre ready to make a difference we invite you to apply and join our dynamic team!

What you need to know

Salary: $16.39/Hourly (Nonnegotiable)

Cover Letter & Resume: Acover letter and resume are strongly recommended

Position Details: Ability to coordinate and attend events and meetings at times beyond usual working hours. Employment will begin with a training period of approximately three to four weeks (July/August). Upon successful completion of training employees will be assigned to a specific high school typically beginning the assignment in late August. Contingent on funding and acceptance by the program manager the employee may be allowed to continue working an additional month to complete excess processing. At the end of this first contract period advisors may be allowed to renew this contract for one additional term only contingent upon funding and acceptance by the program manager.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelors degree from an institution in the state of Texas

• No experience required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with high school students

• Experience working with Admissions and/or Financial Aid

• Background in general office conditions with significant time spent working with high school students

• Bilingual in English and Spanish

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to relate well with a high school student population

• Ability to work as a regional/offsite team member in a dynamic organization possessing a positive attitude and excellent customer service orientation

• Must be literate in the English language and able to comprehend and follow both written and verbal instructions

• Perform accurately in a detailoriented environment with good interpersonal and communication skills

• Ability to make decisions independently and at times with little to no direction

• Selfdirected initiator and problemsolver

• Ability to work urgently on multiple tasks at once in a fast paced and results oriented environment

• Commitment to the success of high school students through the college application process

Responsibilities

Advising:

• Provides oneonone admissions and financialaid advice to any student or family seeking assistance. Encourages each student to consider a broad range of appropriate college choices.

• Develops for each student a comprehensive college timeline including application deadlines for admissions and financial aid.

• Helps each student complete and submit admissions scholarships and financial aid applications. Assists each student in interpreting correspondence from colleges including offers of admission and financial aid.

• May travel to various high schools and other locations to perform advising and program work.

Coordinating:

• Organizes group events that encourage students and their families to consider plan for and apply to colleges and universities.

• Visits classrooms assemblies and club meetings to offer Advise TX services and emphasize the importance of college.

• Visits feeder middle schools to encourage early planning for college.

• Works with local community groups and other socialservice providers to offer group events outside school setting and community service hours.

Assisting:

• Assists in the efforts of other Advise TX advisers within the service area and in the assessment and longterm sustainability of the program.

• Visits other high schools in their assigned service area during school days.

• Helps organize provide support for and attend evening and weekend events organized by other adviser(s).

• Assists the program manager and evaluation staff to identify collect and interpret key progress and outcome variables to evaluate the effectiveness of the Advise TX program.

• Submits monthly progress reports to the program manager documenting progress and outcome data.

• Meets as appropriate with evaluators from the National Office or Texas A&M.

• Represent Advise TX as requested by the program manager to potential supporters and to other interested parties.

Partnerships:

• Establishes productive working relationships with principals counselors and teachers in the assigned high school.

• Assesses in consultation with the Advise TX program manager and school personnel the particular needs of each school and adapts programs and activities to meet these needs.

• Actively seeks the advice and counsel of the onsite supervisor at each partner high school.

Knowledge:

• Maintains expertise in admissions and financial aid advising.

• Participates fully in four weeks of residential training each summer on the Texas A&M campus.

• In consultation with the program manager seeks out and participates in other opportunities for professional development.

Who we are

The Undergraduate Strategic Partnerships collaborates with the College Advising Corps (CAC) to ensure every student has an opportunity to enter and complete college. We serve more than 50 high schools spread across the state in Dallas/Fort Worth San Antonio Houston Brazos Valley and Rio Grande Valley regional areas. In an effort to increase the number of lowincome underrepresented and firstgeneration students pursuing higher education the Texas A&M program hires trains and places exceptional recent college graduates from all fields of study to serve as full time nearpeer college advisers in underserved high schools.

Why Texas A&M University

We are a prestigious university with strong traditions Core Values and a community of caring and collaboration.Amenities associated with a major university such as sporting and cultural events stateoftheart recreation facilities the Bush Library and Museum and much more await you. Experience all that a big city has to offer but with a reasonable costofliving and no long commutes.

• Health dental vision life and longterm disability insurance with Texas A&M contributing to employee health and basic life premiums

• 1215 days of annual paid holidays

• Eight hours of paid sick leaveand at leasteight hours of paid vacationeach month

• Automatically enrollment in theTeacher Retirement System of Texas

• Health and Wellness: Free exercise programs and release time

• Professional Development: All employees have access to freeLinkedIn Learningtraining and webinars

• Employee Tuition Assistance and Educational Release time for completing a degree while a Texas A&M employee

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All positions are securitysensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation and employment is contingent upon the institutions verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institutions procedures including the completion of the criminal history check.

Equal Opportunity/Veterans/Disability Employer.