Admissions and Career Advisor

3 weeks ago

Indianapolis, United States Phalen Leadership Academies Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description 

The Opportunity: PLA University is seeking a dedicated academic and career advisor to assist and guide students in their academic and personal development journey. The role involves assessing the strengths and challenges of students, helping them set realistic academic and career goals, and designing student success plans. You will be responsible for monitoring students' academic progress, providing program information, and offering career counseling. Moreover, you will also be responsible for supporting all workshops and group sessions and maintaining ongoing communication through various channels. If you are passionate about working with adults who are looking to make positive and long-term changes in their lives, please consider this role.

The Details: 

Key Deliverables: 

  • Demonstrating skill in working with students to assess their academic, career, and personal development goals, as well as their aptitude to achieve these goals
  • Collaborating with academic colleagues to develop academic advising protocols and programs that help retain students
  • Meeting strict deadlines, working independently, and taking initiative when appropriate
  • Providing supportive assistance with all workshops, training, and group sessions
  • Possessing excellent oral and written communication skills with team members, leads, students, and educational and community partners

Experience and Education Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Social work, Higher Education, or a related field of study, or four years of related work experience
  • Two years of experience advising or admissions with adult Student Services
  • Knowledge of workforce development career pathways and hiring trends
  • This hybrid position requires in-person interaction with students, training partners, and community partners, as needed
  • Proficiency in working with spreadsheets (Excel), databases, and CRM platforms like Salesforce or Hubspot (or similar), is mandatory
  • Understanding of career advising and education best practices
  • Experience in adult education training, customer service, and personal service
  • Must possess excellent skills in active listening, speaking, reading comprehension, social perceptiveness, critical thinking, writing, judgment and decision making, active listening, complex problem solving, and service orientation
  • Highly skilled in deductive reasoning, problem sensitivity, inductive reasoning, and information ordering
  • Knowledge of social work case management, preferred
  • Bilingual skills, preferred

The Network:

PLA is a transformative education nonprofit changing communities across the country by providing a depth of resources not found in the traditional education model.  In addition to serving as one of the country’s best turnaround school operators and successfully launching charter school start-ups, PLA also provides our school communities with a successful, research-based summer learning program (Summer Advantage), a successful Reading and Math Intervention program (Reading and Math Advantage), and a workforce development program (PLA University) that provides expanded opportunities for our high school graduates, along with the family members of our current staff and students. This menu of programs and services is unique to our network, sets us apart from other organizations, and provides expanded opportunities for our staff through career advancement opportunities, and expanded income opportunities. 
 

Compensation and benefits:

PLA Pathway Coordinators receive a base salary that is competitively aligned to the market. In addition to a base salary, we offer: 

  • Competitive Compensation
  • Benefits – Healthcare, vision, and dental insurance
  • Monthly professional development opportunities including participation in our annual Leader Institute
  • Opportunities to collaborate and brainstorm with other School Leaders in the network
  • Incentive and bonus opportunities

PLA is an equal-opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.  We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristics as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. 

Please read carefully.

Phalen Leadership Academies (PLA) is an equal opportunity employer. PLA does not discriminate in employment on account of race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, age, sex (including sexual harassment), sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status or unfavorable discharge from military service.

By completing this application you understand that neither the completion of this application nor any other part of my consideration for employment establishes any obligation for PLA to hire me. If hired, I understand that either PLA or I can terminate my employment at any time and for any reason, with or without cause and without prior notice. I understand that no representative of PLA has the authority to make any assurance to the contrary.

You attest by applying to this position that you have given PLA true and complete information on this application. No requested information has been concealed. I authorize PLA to contact references provided for employment reference checks. If any information I have provided is untrue, or if I have concealed material information, I understand that this will constitute cause for the denial of employment or immediate dismissal.

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