Position Title: Health Sciences Retention/Advising Specialist
Department: Health Sciences and Integrated Nursing Pathway
Position Status: Part-Time, Exempt
Position Number: 230830
FLSA Status: Exempt
Reports To: Associate Dean, Health Sciences
Supervises: Staff as assigned
The Position: Located near the beautiful Rocky Mountains of the front range of Colorado, the Community College of Aurora resides in one of the fastest growing suburbs of the Denver metropolitan area. The college is a progressive, dynamic, culturally diverse institution experiencing rapid growth, but with a strong commitment to high quality education and student success. The Community College of Aurora is looking for someone to fill the role of Health Sciences Retention/Advising Specialist. The successful candidate will have a passion for continued learning and student success.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide administrative support to the Health Science Associate Dean, Health Science and Pathway faculty, and other division personnel. This requires maintaining multiple calendars, scheduling meetings, making copies, providing classroom support, and all other standard administrative support duties.
- Program promotion through interface with applicants/potential applicants
- Manage application process: transcript analysis, GPA calculation, tracking & processing application materials, scheduling writing exercises, personal interviews with the team, coordination with CU College of Nursing faculty & personnel
- Provide ongoing advising support for students enrolled in Health Science Programs, requiring individualized advising abilities.
- Provide general information sessions and other advising activities, working collaboratively with CCA and partner college advisors.
- Assist with individual student academic progression decisions
- Manage cohort course registration
- Set up and manage program orientations in collaboration with academic partners
- Support grant, publication and program/student funding efforts
- Assist with development & implementation of CCA Student Tracking System
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor degree in health care, nursing, education, counseling or related field
- Demonstrated experience in advising and working with students
- Demonstrated experience in handling multiple projects and decision making.
- Demonstrated Administrative Assistant experience with providing support to several individuals, ability to manage multiple tasks, and examples of organizational skills.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills with demonstrated sensitivity to the protection of privacy for all individuals involved
Preferred Qualifications
- Masters degree in nursing
- Respectful, efficient management of interface with clinical partners, actual and potential academic partners
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines and competing demands from students, potential students, and CCA and partner personnel
- Experience with health care programs
- Academic advising experience in a college setting
Application process: To apply, send a cover letter specifically addressing the position requirements, and a professional resume to
HR@CCAurora.edu.
Deadline To Submit Application Material: This position will remain posted until it has been filled or a final candidate has been identified. We anticipate that we will begin screening on April 16, 2012.
By submitting an application for this announced position, applicants are certifying that all statements, information and documents provided are true, complete and correct to the best of my knowledge and are made in good faith. Further, applicants understand that omissions, misleading, false or untrue information, or any attempt at fraud or deceit in any manner connected with this application and/or subsequent testing may result in them not being considered for jobs with the Community College of Aurora; may constitute grounds for discipline and/or termination after hire; and/or constitute grounds for further actions pursuant to law.
The Federal Clery Act (The Student Right to Know and Campus Security Act of 1990) requires all institutions of higher learning to make available to prospective employees our agency's Annual Security Report. A copy of this information is available on the CCA website at http://www.ccaurora.edu/students/student-right-know. A paper copy of this report can be obtained at the College Security Office upon request. This report includes statistics for the previous three years concerning crimes that occurred on campus or on property controlled or owned by Community College of Aurora, as well as public property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from, our campuses.
Notice To All Applicants:
· Proof of eligibility to work in the United States must be produced within three (3) days of hire.
· Direct deposit of payroll is a condition of employment.
· Final candidate will be subject to a criminal background check prior to final selection process.
· Final candidate will be required to submit official transcripts.
· CCA is affiliated with the Colorado public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) and as such, employees contribute to PERA in lieu of
Social Security for retirement benefits. For more information, visit
www.copera.org.
· Former employees of the Colorado Community College System or one of its 13 colleges, who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu
of termination, must disclose this information in your application material.
Equal Opportunity Employer: The Community College of Aurora is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, or disability in the admission, access, treatment or employment practices or in its programs or activities as required by Title VI, Title IX, and Section 504, Age Discrimination Act, and Title II of the ADA. Written inquiries may be referred to Debbie Irvine, 16000 East CentreTech Parkway, Suite A201, Aurora, CO 80011-9036.
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