Job Description: Job Description: The College of Engineering & Science is seeking a Pre-Health Program Coordinator and Advisor to develop, coordinate and implement infrastructure and programming to: support students interested in pursuing a professional health career, to improve and promote pre-health programming, to assist in marketing and recruiting of pre-health students, and to administer and expand affiliation agreements with professional programs at Detroit Mercy and other institutions. The successful candidate will be a self-directed, creative, effective, and enthusiastic cheerleader, mentor, and communicator, with a commitment to supporting a diverse population of undergraduate students. The candidate should have a strong interest in building a robust program collaborating with faculty from a variety of disciplines. We are particularly interested in candidates who would contribute to our efforts to provide support and opportunities for historically underrepresented students in pursuing careers in health-related areas. The small classes and close collegial relationships make working at Detroit Mercy exciting and rewarding. The College’s faculty and staff form a vibrant community student-centered professionals with a strong focus on professional and academic mentorship of students. Duties/Responsibilities: Research, create, implement programming, policies, and procedures to improve student acceptance rates to professional programs. Engage faculty and staff to continuously improve the quality of pre-health support and advising. Research, create, implement programming, policies, and procedures to improve recruiting and retention of pre-health career intending students. Provide/Identify data for success and improvement.
Minimum Qualifications: A college degree
Six months to two years similar or related experience
Preferred Qualifications: Master's degree preferred
Other Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to take initiative, be self-directed, and see projects to completion.
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills.
- Knowledge of best practices for supporting under-represented groups of best practices for academic advising in STEM disciplines.
- Interest, empathy, and ability in helping students develop intellectually, socially, ethically, and spiritually.
- Sense of humor, flexibility, patience, creativity.
- Attention to details.
- Ability to use technology to keep accurate records.
- Ability to analyze, interpret and utilize data for recruiting and program improvement Ability to problem solve, think critically.