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Pre-college Advisor, TRIO TALENT SEARCH (136415)

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location
Champaign, IL

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Institution Type
Four-Year Institution

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Description:

Pre-college Advisor

TRIO Talent Search

Office of Minority Student Affairs

University Of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Office of Minority Student Affairs (OMSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is accepting applications for the Pre-college Advisor positions. The Pre-college Advisor will work with a team of professionals to improve and sustain a college going culture for its target schools and target areas and to improve parents’ capacity to prepare their child/children for college. We invite individuals with specialized training, skills, and experience helping students succeed to apply.

The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or veteran status. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO.

Primary Position Function/Summary:

The Pre-College Advisor is responsible for assisting with the implementation of the TRIO Talent Search program in compliance with the approved grant proposal, federal legislation and regulations, state law, and university policies. Responsible for contributing to the development, implementation, and evaluation of precollege services that increase achievement, persistence, and graduation rates for participants. Delegated the responsibility for ensuring the attainment and reporting of the program’s objectives and outcomes.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

(65%) ADVISING
  • Assist the director in implementing the Plan of Operation and Evaluation for the approved Talent Search grant.
  • Assist in developing, implementing, and evaluating innovative, responsive, and empirically grounded academic and enrichment services for participants that meet the TRIO Talent Search program objectives.
  • Assist with recruiting, hiring, training, supervising, and evaluating personnel to fulfill the Talent Search objectives.
  • Identify participants experiencing academic challenges and develop appropriate interventions to bolster their academic success.
  • Assist in monitoring participants’ academic progress from their date of admission through their college graduation.
  • Maintain accurate, audit-ready program records and service delivery reports as requested.
  • Apply appropriate professional judgment, discretion, and autonomy to deliver high quality services to participants and their parents or guardians.
  • Collaborate with target schools to deliver pre-college services that meet the critical academic needs of participants.
  • Trouble-shoot student related issues proactively and provide appropriate solutions.
  • Collaborate with TRIO Upward Bound and TRIO Student Support Services to provide coordinated service for participants.
  • Keep abreast of current trends related to pre-college and collegiate success by participating in professional organizations (e.g., state, regional, and national TRIO associations).
  • Contribute to monthly and annual reports of the use and effectiveness of service delivery.
  • Assist with planning major department activities.
  • Assist with the data entry, filing and organization of student file and information
  • Assist in meeting operational needs by performing other duties including, but not be limited to instruction, writing, presenting, and consulting activities.
(20%) OUTREACH

  • Screen, recruit, recommend, and retain eligible participants for the TRIO Talent Search program.
  • Assist admitted students with their orientation and acclimation to the program.
  • Maintain ongoing communication with students to ensure the delivery of services.
  • Be available to participants and parents to assist with the college preparation and selection process.
  • Develop, maintain, and update the student’s action plans.
  • Periodic evening and weekend duties are required.

(10%) SUPERVISION

  • Supervise assigned TRIO Talent Search hourly employees.
  • Assists with recruiting, hiring, onboarding, professional development, and evaluation for hourly employees.
  • Disseminate accurate and timely information to the hourly staff.
  • Serves as a coach to assist hourly staff in meeting performance goals.

(5%) OTHER GENERAL DUTIES

  • Participates in staff committees, and other meetings as assigned.
  • Provide relevant information for the Annual Performance Report.
  • Performs evening, weekend, and business travel events as request
  • Assists with meeting the operational needs by performing other appropriate related duties.

Required Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree in education, counseling, or a discipline appropriate for providing excellent pre-college services to students participating in a federal TRIO program through the US Department of Education is required.

Preferred Education:

  • Master's degree in education, counseling, or a discipline appropriate for administering a federal TRIO program through the US Department of Education is required.

Required Experience:

  • A minimum of two years of experience working with pre-college students. At least two years of experience designing, implementing or overseeing pre-college advising, outreach, or student support programs. A minimum of two years of experience working with students from diverse backgrounds (i.e., first-generation, low-income, TRIO, or Gear Up). Supervisory experience is required. Experience working with public school personnel and community agency staff who serve students.

Preferred Experience:

  • Three to five years of relevant work experience. Experience working for a TRIO program. Experience successfully matriculation in higher education as a first-generation and/ or low-income student.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

  • Ability to think clearly, creatively, and to solve problems proactively.
  • Excellent communication and administrative skills.
  • Ability to work effectively individually and collaboratively.
  • Ability to manage competing priorities successfully.
  • Ability to advise, mentor, and coach students successfully.
  • Ability to design and implement successful educational programs.
  • Must be student-centered and service oriented.
Background Checks

This is a security-sensitive position. The chosen candidate is required to pass an extensive criminal background check before starting the position.

Appointment Status: This is a 12-month, full-time Academic Professional position.

Salary: Commensurate with experience and includes an excellent benefits package.

Start Date: As soon as possible.

Application Procedures

Please complete your application profile at http://jobs.illinois.edu and upload (1) a cover letter addressing qualifications, experiences, and how you comply with requirements; (2) a résumé with a specific month and year for dates of employment; and (3) contact information, including relationship to applicant, for three references. Submission of materials in one PDF document is desired but not required. Evidence of degree will be required before the first day of employment.

Incomplete materials will not be considered. Applications may be reviewed, and interviews may occur immediately but will continue until a suitable candidate is identified. To ensure full consideration, submit your completed materials by October 09, 2020; no interviews will be made prior to this date. Completed materials submitted after October 09, 2020 will be considered only as needed faxes, mail, or hand-deliveries will not be accepted.

For additional information regarding the application procedures, please contact:

Office of Minority Student Affairs

Human Resources

217-333-0054 (phone)

omsa-hr@illinois.edu

The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer. As a qualifying federal contractor, the University of Illinois System uses E-Verify to verify employment eligibility.

The University of Illinois System requires candidates selected for hire to disclose any documented finding of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment and to authorize inquiries to current and former employers regarding findings of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment. For more information, visit Policy on Consideration of Sexual Misconduct in Prior Employment.

College Name or Administrative Unit:Student Affairs Category:5-Education and Student Services Title:Pre-college Advisor, TRIO TALENT SEARCH (136415) Open Date:09/18/2020 Close Date:10/09/2020 Organization Name:Minority Student Affairs

Organization

Since its founding in 1867, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has earned a reputation as a world-class leader in research, teaching, and public engagement.

Faculty

A talented and highly respected faculty is the University's most significant resource. Many are recognized for exceptional scholarship with memberships in such organizations as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering. 

Our faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, and the Fields Medal in Mathematics.The success of our faculty is matched by that of our alumni: 11 are Nobel laureates and another 18 have won Pulitzer Prizes.

Academic Resources

Academic resources on campus are among the finest in the world. The University Library is one of the largest public university collections in the world with 11 million volumes in its 37 unit libraries. Annually, 53,000,000 people visit its online catalog. Students have access to thousands of computer terminals in classrooms, residence halls, and campus libraries for use in classroom instruction, study, and research.

Research

Students and scholars find the University an ideal place to conduct research. The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a model for interdisciplinary research, where eighteen research groups from sixteen University departments work within and across three broadly defined themes: biological intelligence, human-computer intelligent interaction, and molecular and electronic nanostructures. The University is also home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Undergraduate Education

The University has a fundamental commitment to undergraduate education. Nearly 28,000 undergraduate students are enrolled in nine undergraduate divisions, which together offer some 4,000 courses in more than 150 fields of study.

Undergraduate admission is highly selective. In the 2001 freshman class, students in the middle 50% had ACT scores between 25 and 30 and ranked between the 83rd and 96th percentiles of their high school graduating classes.

The University enrolls over 9,000 graduate and professional students in more than 100 disciplines. It is among the top five universities in number of earned doctorates awarded annually in the United States.

Also integral to the University's mission is a commitment to public engagement. Each year about 65,000 Illinois residents participate in scores of conferences, institutes, courses, and workshops presented statewide. Research and class projects take students and professors off campus to share expertise and technical support with Illinois farmers, manufacturing firms, and businesses. In a typical year, student volunteers log more than 60,000 volunteer hours.

The Arts

A major center for the arts, the campus attracts dozens of nationally and internationally renowned artists each year to its widely acclaimed Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The University also supports two major museums: the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion; and the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture. 

Other major facilities include the multipurpose Assembly Hall (16,500 seats); Memorial Stadium (70,000 seats), site of Big Ten Conference football games; and the Intramural-Physical Education Building, one of the largest recreational facilities of its kind on a university campus.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Illinois is about how we value difference to make a difference. http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu/

As evidence of the University’s commitment to enhance the working, living, and learning environment for faculty, staff, and students, the University will encourage a standard of conduct and behavior that is consistent with the values of inclusivity. In an environment of inclusivity, there is no place for acts of hatred, intolerance, insensitivity, bigotry, threats of violence, harassment or discrimination.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Through education, engagement, and excellence, each voice creates the Inclusive Illinois Experience.

How can we appreciate difference to make a difference?

Illinois is the place where we embrace difference. We embrace it because we value it. We value it because we know that we have so much to learn from each other in our living, learning, and working environment.

Illinois is the place where we recognize the power of possibility and where great potential is realized. Inclusive Illinois is the vision of that place: a vision made real by leadership and commitment.

Illinois is the place where consensus is forged by discourse and where everyone’s contributions are recognized: significant contributions that elevate us because they are informed and enhanced by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, age, physical ability, religion, class, and national origin. We are enriched by these perspectives, and we are united by the very discourse that brings these views together.

It is a process. It is transformative. And we celebrate the remarkable changes we set in motion here … taking an important step … crossing boundaries … starting with our own.

It all starts with each of us: with our willingness to embark on the journey in the search for answers, and with our openness and acceptance of the answers we find. Illinois is the place where it all comes together.

Learn more about how Inclusive Illinois promotes diversity here.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

The commitment of the University to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity requires that decisions involving students and employees be based on individual merit and be free from invidious discrimination in all its forms, whether or not specifically prohibited by law. Among the forms of invidious discrimination prohibited by the University policy but not law is discrimination, including harassment, on the basis of sexual orientation. Complaints of invidious discrimination in violation of University policy are to be resolved within existing University procedures. The policy of the University of Illinois is to comply with all federal and state nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action laws, orders, and regulations. The University will not engage in discrimination or harassment against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, unfavorable discharge from the military, or status as a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era. This nondiscrimination policy applies to admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University programs and activities

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