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Multicultural Advisor

This position plays a vital role in supporting BYU's multicultural students, offering guidance, mentorship, and coaching to help them thrive academically, socially, spiritually, and financially. By assessing learning outcomes and identifying student needs, the advisor ensures a personalized approach to each student's success, helping them transition smoothly into university life. This includes connecting them with essential resources, engaging them in extracurricular activities, and fostering a sense of community that aligns with the Aims of a BYU education. Additionally, this role involves contributing as a SOAR (Summer of Academic Refinement) team member, overseeing students and program components, and empowering them to achieve their fullest potential.

What you will be doing in this position:

• Continuing Multicultural Student Advisement

  • Using student development models and one-on-one advisement meetings, advise and assist with students' needs in academic, financial, personal, emotional, spiritual, and cultural areas and establish advisement and development plans for each student.
  • Develop relationships of care, challenge, support, and education with students; assist them in identifying and resolving concerns and issues.
  • Utilize current and future technical tools and advising modalities to provide quality and effective advisement.
  • Educate and engage students in developing accurate graduation plans.
  • Provide quality advisement on university core requirements.
  • Utilize learning outcomes to direct advisement discussions and create educational interventions.
  • Use MSS database(s), Early Alert (Tableau), YMessage/Salesforce programs to regularly and accurately document student interactions and report student progress.
  • Partner with campus units to provide students seamless advisement and connection to critical campus resources.
  • Track and follow-up with students on academic warning and probation, those struggling, and those with high credit hours to identify appropriate resources to assist them as they progress towards graduation.
  • Assist students in developing educational financial plans. Assist students to navigate the BYU, MSS, and off-campus scholarships and financial aid requirements, and procedures.
  • Evaluate students' scholarship qualifications and recommend students for MSS scholarships.

  • Fully participate in and assist with MSS and campus advisement, cultural programs, scholarship special events (Scholarship meetings, NSO, Welcome Bash, trainings, etc.).

     

• SOAR Team member/Outreach 

  • Coordinate, plan and implement assigned SOAR activities.
  • Evaluate student applications and meet with students prior to SOAR.
  • Participate in SOAR coordination meetings.
  • Record student performance and contributions.
  • Provide student support during admissions application process.
  • Oversee other SOAR projects as assigned, after 5:00pm if necessary.

  • Provide recommendations about students who could be strong contributors to BYU.

     

     

• Prospective and Newly Admitted Student Advisement

  Meet one-on-one with the assigned advising queue multicultural prospective students annually to assess their BYU preparation and to provide college preparation advisement and assistance.

  Be proficient in and provide BYU admissions, financial aid and scholarship application information, and assistance to prospective and newly admitted students.

  Advise newly admitted students on registering for classes, choosing majors, transitioning to BYU, and new student success strategies.

  Educate and engage students in developing accurate graduation plans.

  Reach out to each of your assigned new incoming multicultural freshman students, the summer prior the start of the year, to help with class schedule and transi ioning to BYU.

   

What qualifies you for this role:

• Master's degree in advisement, counseling, higher education, or relevant area and 2 years of advisement experience -OR-
• Master's degree in relevant area and graduate coursework in counseling, advising, or higher education and 2 years of advisement experience.

Preferred education/experience:

• Master's degree in academic advising, counseling, psychology, higher education or relevant area and 4+ years of higher education academic advising or counseling experience OR

   

Skills, abilities, knowledge, licenses, certifications

• Knowledge of student development theory and program management. *Required                    *
• Knowledge of and commitment to the mission and goals of the University, including the Aims of a BYU Education and the University Statement on Fostering an Enriched Environment.  Required
• Demonstrated initiative and independent thinking; the ability to organize and prioritize tasks with flexibility, be detail-oriented and work autonomously.  Required
• Demonstrated professional judgment and decision-making; the ability to determine and evaluate the consequences and/or ramifications of possible decisions; setting professional boundaries; creative problem solving. Required
• Demonstrated experience in mentoring, advising and educating students. Strong aptitude for assisting students. Required
• Demonstrated strong personal, written, and oral communication skills. The ability to express ideas and provide feedback while remaining objective and supportive of the ultimate outcome. Required
• The ability to fully participate with, contribute to, and support the MSS team. Required
• Demonstrated experience with computer technology and database programs, including current updates on multi-media technology. Required
• A broad perspective and understanding of other cultures and the challenges that may accompany students from diverse backgrounds. Required
• Thorough awareness of advising resources and a demonstrated ability to develop a positive networking relationship with other campus departments.  Required
• Research, analytical, evaluative, and assessment skills; the ability to use systematic inquiry to improve student and department performance. Required
• Demonstrated ability to successfully and independently lead important programs, projects, services including, detailed organizing, managing financial resources, coordinating with other staff members and programs, supervising student employees, and assessing and improving outcomes. Required
• Demonstrated ability to handle crucial conversations and professional behavior towards students, colleagues, and administrators.

Pay Level: 52