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Coordinate with the Career Specialist and Academic Advising Specialist to carry out programs.

Support office event calendar and establishing schedules for events.

Help track and report student attendance at programs, registration status, internship and career placement data.

Establish and update student and office appointment calendar.

Manage student advisor changes for all undergraduate students in collaboration with academic department chairs and the Registrar's Office.

Maintains chair and advising lists and reports

Serve as a primary advisor to a caseload of students

Give presentations on career, advising, and other office events to student groups, classes, or departments

Use technology to support ongoing communication, identifying student needs for changing majors, connecting to advising and career counseling.

Oversee department website and make timely updates with accurate information

Provides Handshake platform maintenance by approving jobs, events, and various troubleshooting.

Communicate with employers on invoices and registration for career fairs.

Maintain ongoing databases of employer contacts.

Other support duties as assigned.

Ability to understand principles, practices, procedures and methods of evidence-based academic advising strategies. Experience in communicating to support effective working relationships with a variety of constituents. Experience in preparing detailed documents, proposals, reports, and/or related materials. Able to utilize student information and/or case management systems such as PeopleSoft or Salesforce. Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite. Able to develop and lead action plans to meet goals; establishing milestones and timetables. Experience in demonstrating proactivity and sensitivity to needs of a diverse student population.

Requires professionalism and accountability, and an ability to prioritize projects and respond quickly to rapidly changing environment requiring solutions and use of time, technology and resources to execute. Attention to detail and decision-making on advising and adjusting approach to students based on differing needs. Requires ability to advise and guide partners and team in decision-making and response to challenges.

Supports student enrollment and success goals and operates under the vision that every student at UNK will have a consistently excellent advising and career development experience. Career placement and student success tracking and trends are important to student recruitment and retention at UNK.

Interactions with students, staff/faculty, department chairs, EMM directors, Admissions Counselors, alumni and community professionals.

Operation of a computer mouse with their dominant hand. (Usually right).