Career Center

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem solving skills and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty. 

Undergraduate Academic Affairs (UAA) shapes, advances and stewards a world-class undergraduate academic experience for students at the University of Washington. Staff, faculty and students in UAA deepen and enrich the learning experience for all undergraduates, recognizing and supporting the unique learning path of each individual student and the commitment of each academic program to excellence in learning and teaching.

Within UAA, UAA Advising provides academic planning services and support for students, including helping them explore academic opportunities and working with them to connect their personal strengths and interests with curricular (including co- and extra-curricular) experiences. UAA Advising works primarily with students who are exploring and undecided or preparing for entrance into a major. UAA Advising is a primary campus contact for prospective transfer students, working closely with the community and technical colleges in Washington State. UAA Advising is the UW’s centralized advising office, providing leadership and support to advisers, departments, and student service units around the institution in the areas of academic advising practice and policy.

UAA Advising works closely with First Year Programs, Academic Support Programs, and other campus partners to support advising and orientation programming along with tutoring and course support for students. UAA Advising collaborates extensively around campus, particularly with college and departmental advisers, student services offices, and key campus event organizers. Along with Academic Support Programs and the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity’s Academic Counseling Services, UAA Advising is physically located at the heart of the university, within the Center for Undergraduate Advising, Diversity, and Student Success (CUADSS) at Mary Gates Hall.

UAA Advising has an outstanding opportunity for two dynamic, service-oriented and student-centered individuals to join our team as academic advisers. We aim to build a diverse pool of experienced candidates from a range of academic and professional backgrounds. The right candidates will join a collaborative, purposeful team of professionals excited to play an instrumental role in the lives of students by helping them make informed academic choices, and supporting their experiences at the UW and beyond.

Candidates for the Academic Adviser positions must exhibit an appreciation of, a sensitivity to, and respect for a diverse academic environment, inclusive of students, faculty and staff of many social, economic, cultural, gender, ideological, racial and ethnic backgrounds.

70% Advise and assist students, in a variety of direct advising settings (1:1, drop-in, group, remote), in understanding academic options, degree requirements, and university policies and procedures. Guide and support students in making informed choices, developing their academic identities, and crafting successful academic plans. Foster innovation in advising practicing by experimenting with new models and methods of advising the large and diverse UW pre-major student population. Work with a diverse cohort of pre-major students, providing:

•Advising support to general pre-major students
•Advising and information resources for new and prospective transfer students
•Advising and special programming for international students
•Advising and post-graduate preparation for pre-professional students (pre-law, pre-health).
•Advising, outreach and support to low scholarship and at-risk students, and guidance to those seeking reinstatement to the University.

10% Perform administrative management of advising work (including recording of notes, appointment preparation, appointment follow up, referrals, responding to advising-related email, and other documentation).

10% Support the goals and functions of the advising office through administrative tasks, support and coordination of events, basic projects, collaboration with partners across campus, and other duties as assigned.

10% Support programming related to experiential learning, academic and career integration, and scaled advising initiatives.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
• Bachelor's degree
•Two years of advising, student counseling or teaching experience.

Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
•Excellent organizational and time-management skills, and superlative attention to detail
•Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing, and to collaborate effectively with people representing diverse perspectives, approaches, and job roles.
•Demonstrated familiarity with, and ability to adopt and implement diverse technology, communications and social media platforms and applications.
•Ability to appropriately manage sensitive information.
•Superlative ability to provide an empathic, yet professional and efficient approach to working with students from extremely diverse backgrounds and those with a spectrum of personal and academic challenges.
•Experience working with diverse student populations including students considered to be at-risk, low-scholarship, international students, or transfer students.

Desired Experience:
•Experience as a UW student or staff member.
•Experience with Excel, EARS and UW SDB.
•Experience working in areas related to career counseling, and familiarity with career exploration and job search tools.
•Familiarity with contemporary concepts in student development.

All UAA Advising Staff will demonstrate and integrate the following Undergraduate Academic Affairs Competencies:
•Accountability and Integrity
•Race, Equity, and Difference
•Constituent Focus
•Collaboration and Teamwork 

Application Process:

The application process for UW positions may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process.  These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others.  Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.