Graduate Advisor

Job Title: Graduate Advisor
Reports To: Dean of Graduate School
FSLA: Exempt
Salary: $38,000 - $42,000

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
The Graduate Advisor is responsible for reviewing transfer work, providing academic advice, and assisting incoming students with enrollment for the current semester

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following:
• Understands all ECU degree requirements
• Understands all ECU program articulations
• Admits students to Graduate Program
• Compiles advising files for each student assigned
• Develops a degree plan for student
• Provides academic advice and helps students enroll in recommended courses
• Performs degree auditing and graduation processing
• Helps with Graduate Commencement
• Travels for necessary training

BENEFITS AND FRINGES
• Employees experience competitive paid holidays, including:

• 2 weeks for Winter Break
• 1 week for Spring Break
• 2 days at Fall Break

• Employees accrue both vacation and sick leave.
• ECU pays both the employer and the employee portion of Oklahoma Teacher’s Retirement.
• ECU contributes up to $698 to employee health insurance every month.
• Employees and their dependents qualify for a tuition waiver at ECU.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

• Demonstrate working knowledge of office practices and methods.
• Coordinate work with other employees.
• Organize work effectively, conceptualize and prioritize objectives and exercise independent judgement based on university policy and procedures.
• Establish and maintain effective work relationships with all stakeholders—faculty, staff, students, and the community.
• Provide a friendly, customer-service environment.
• Maintain confidentiality regarding protected information.
• Manage deadlines on multiple projects.
• Ability to work unsupervised
• Effectively use office equipment and software including, but not limited to, the Microsoft Office 365 Suite.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Preferred: Master’s degree or bachelor’s degree with appropriate experience in the field of academic advising highly desired.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will work in multiple types of environments, inside, outside, quiet, loud, etc.