Senior Student Advisor – La Trobe University
About The Role
The Senior Student Advisor acts in a dual function, taking a team leadership role while also providing student advisory support for targeted student cohorts. In addition to undertaking Student Advisor duties, this role is responsible for training and supervision of a team of Support Advisor staff, ensuring ongoing professional development goals are met for the team. The role is also responsible for collaborating with university stakeholders to help promote the Student Advising Program.
Skills and Experience
To be considered for this position, you will have
• A degree with substantial extension of the theories and principles, learned through experience, or a range of management experience, or postgraduate qualifications, or progress towards postgraduate qualifications with extensive relevant experience, or an equivalent alternate combination of relevant knowledge, training and/or experience.
• Ability to apply theoretical knowledge or management or policy expertise to bring together diverse and sometimes conflicting information to solve new or one off problems.
• Demonstrated management and leadership skills with experience in managing and leading staff to promote a cohesive and effective team and managing workflows. • Ability to be responsible for program/system development and implementation.
• Ability to develop innovative methodologies or take a leading role in the application of proven techniques involving considerable theoretical and technical sophistication.
• Demonstrated ability to form a detailed knowledge of academic and administrative policies and the interrelationships between a range of policies and activities.
About La Trobe University
La Trobe University is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. They take an intersectional approach by actively supporting and encouraging people of all backgrounds and abilities to submit an application and aim to ensure that the recruitment and employee experience is as accessible and inclusive as possible. Flexibility in interview format will be offered to shortlisted candidates.
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