Health Sciences Academic Advisor – East Falls Campus (Part-Time 19 hours per week)

Job Details

Job Description

Essential Functions

• Interacts with co-workers visitors and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
• Provide advising support through regular and frequent communication with advisees and maintain accurate records of work including all interactions with students.
• Assist students to develop educational goals identify ways to achieve these goals and track progress to ensure students meet all requirements to graduate.

• Affirm students major choice or assist in identifying new major based on students interests and aptitude.

• Become familiar with university policies procedures and planning requirements including course frequency (e.g. every other year offerings) prerequisites and co-requisites program application deadlines study away course planning and internships.

• Refer students to campus offices/resources such as Career Development Accessibility Services tutoring Student Health Services Counseling Center Student Accounts Financial Aid

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelors degree in education/ student/career advising or equivalent (Masters degree preferred)

AND

Experience:

• Experience working with students majoring in health-related fields

• Teaching or academic coaching experience in college environment preferred

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Primary Location Address

Nationally ranked Jefferson which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65000 people strong dedicated to providing the highest-quality compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrows professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College Jefferson College of Nursing and the Kanbar College of Design Engineering and Commerce dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8300 students. Jefferson Health nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age race color religion creed sexual orientation gender gender identity marital status pregnancy national origin ancestry citizenship military status veteran status handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues including medical (including prescription) supplemental insurance dental vision life and AD&D insurance short- and long-term disability flexible spending accounts retirement plans tuition assistance as well as voluntary benefits which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues including those who work less than part-time(including per diemcolleagues adjunct faculty and Jeff Temps) have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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