EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ACADEMIC ADVISING CENTER

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ACADEMIC ADVISING CENTER

Posting Number: SRGV8924
Number of Vacancies: 1.0
Location: Rio Grande Valley, Texas
Department: Academic Advising Center
FLSA: Exempt

Scope of Job:

Responsible for providing overall leadership and strategic direction for and management of the Academic Advising Center. Coordinates strategic and proactive university-wide academic advising initiatives which promote retention and timely progress to degree. The primary emphasis will be on ensuring the delivery of consistent and highly effective academic advising experiences for all undergraduate students by fostering a strong and collaborative institutional advising network that is responsive to student needs and designed in accordance with best practices.

Description of Duties:

• Provides leadership and strategic direction for the delivery of a consistent and highly effective academic advising experience for all undergraduate students.
• Responsible for the development and implementation of strategic, proactive advising initiatives which will positively impact student success outcomes, including retention and timely progress to degree.
• Leads and motivates a diverse team in a fast paced environment, addressing performance issues, resolving conflicts, and fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Ensures advising units are responsive to emerging trends in academic advising and changes in UTRGV student needs.
• Develops and sustains strong and effective working relationships across divisions, departments, and the community, as appropriate, to ensure the integration of advising and other student success initiatives into a seamless student experience of support.
• Works with Student Success leadership to foster broad and authentic engagement of the campus community, including faculty, staff, and student governance bodies; College/School leadership; and other stakeholders in co-design and execution of strategic priorities for student success initiatives. Communicates changes about campus-wide priorities and initiatives relevant to assigned units, as well as changes to policies and practices, to various stakeholders.
• Supervises the hiring, training, and evaluation of staff, ensuring alignment with System, state, and national standards for high quality advising.
• Actively tracks and reports on data that will help Student Success and campus stakeholders better understand students' needs and systemic barriers to student success-oriented goals related to assigned scope.
• Implements effective data collection, analysis, and reporting systems that demonstrate desired outcomes and inform recommendations for strategic resource allocation and overall direction for advising of undergraduate students.
• Optimizes use of technologies to support academic advising, student persistence, and timely progress to degree for undergraduate students.
• Effectively allocates and manages financial, human, technology, and space resources to achieve goals related to assigned scope.
• Manages budget expenditures on assigned university accounts (including grant accounts), to ensure compliance.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervision Received:

General supervision from assigned supervisor.

Supervision Given:

Direct supervision of assigned staff.

Required Education:

Master’s degree in a related field from an accredited university.

Preferred Education:

Doctorate’s degree in a related field from an accredited university.

Licenses/Certifications:

N/A

Required Experience:

Five (5) years of experience in academic advising, including three (3) years supervisory experience. Strong working knowledge of academic advising best practices.

Preferred Experience:

Experience as an academic advising director. Experience leading a large and/or complex student success-oriented unit.

Equipment:

Use of standard office equipment. Ability to use computers for word processing, calendar sharing, emailing, accessing student academic information. Preferred experience in the use of student information system software. Basic statistical and strong report writing skills.

Working Conditions:

Needs to be able to successfully perform all required duties. Work is performed primarily in a general office environment Some travel and weekend/evening work is required. UTRGV is a distributed institution, which requires presence at multiple locations throughout the Rio Grande Valley.

Other:

Ability to successfully collaborate with faculty, administrators within higher education (i.e. college deans, department chairs, and other administrators, etc.) and professional staff. Strong communication, collaboration and conflict resolution skills. Strong program development, implementation, and assessment skills. Strong research skills in the area of program development, continuous improvement and assessment. Ability to apply current university academic policies and procedures, current academic advisement practices, student academic monitoring and retention efforts. Strong supervisory and management skills. Direct experience working successfully with student populations similar to UTRGV; highly effective written and oral communication skills with the ability to deliver information in a clear, concise, and articulate manner to multiple stakeholder groups; proven leadership and management skills, particularly as they relate to advancing innovative practices, building strategic partnerships across colleges/schools and divisions and leveraging team capacity; and, effective staff development and supervision.

Physical Capabilities:

N/A

Employment Category:

Full-Time

Minimum Salary:

Commensurate with Experience

Posted Salary:

Commensurate with Experience

Position Available Date:

04/20/2026

Grant Funded Position:

No