Location : Main Campus - Homewood, AL
Job Type: Staff Full Time
Job Number: FY2700647
Division: Academic Affairs for Staff
Department: STA-Dean, Howard College of Arts & Sci
Opening Date: 07/08/2026
FLSA: Exempt
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Description
The Academic Advisor will advise students for Arts and Sciences majors in departments as assigned by the Assistant Dean.
Job Duties
- Advise students in the Arts and Sciences departments with regard to scheduling for upcoming terms and other relevant conversations.
- Serve as primary/guardian advisor for all assigned students.
- Consult with faculty advisors in the relevant departments with regard to advising.
- Analyze initial transfer student transcripts and refer students to correct departments. Serve as guardian advisor until students graduate.
- Assist with graduation checks for seniors the semester before intended graduation.
- Update Degreeworks for all assigned students.
- Enter notes in Navigate system as appropriate.
- Monitor students' mid-term grades and final grades and intervene with students who are on academic warning or are underperforming.
- Refer students to Career Development Center as they consider changing majors.
- Work with students on suggesting minors.
- Make contacts with other schools to promote minors.
- Refer students to Career Development Center for information on internships (particularly sophomores and juniors)
- Develop student schedules prior to Bulldog Days.
- Meet with students at June and August Bulldog Days.
- Attend some recruiting events (Choose Samford, Samford Showcase etc.)
- Suggest outstanding students for campus honors (Ambassadors, SRT, ODK, honor societies)
- Become proficient in the EAB software in order to make strategic decisions with regard to student academic success.
- Other duties as specified by the Assistant Dean of Arts and Sciences.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree.
- Minimum six (6) months of experience in Academic Advising, Counseling, Education or a related field.
- Highly organized and able to maintain energy and focus in a busy student-centered environment.
- Communicates with excellence interpersonally in written and oral forms.
- Relates well to college students with an intuitive understanding of when students need intervention.
- Understands student recruitment and retention issues.
- Ability to use independent judgment and manage and impart confidential information.
- Ability to organize well and to maintain calendars, gather data, prepare reports and document student interactions and plans.
- Ability to report to work daily, five days per week.
- Ability to remain in a sitting position for extended periods of time.
- Ability to work continuously throughout the day.
- Occasional travel as required.
- Current, valid driver's license.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a field such as Higher Education or Counseling.
We offer a complete benefits package to full-time employees including health care, dental, vision, deferred compensation plans, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, long-term disability, holidays, vacation, and sick leave.
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Do you have a Bachelor's degree or higher?
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Do you have at least 6 months of experience in an Academic Advising, Counseling, Education, or related field?
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Do you have current, valid driver's license?
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