Job Description: The Assistant Director of Health Professions Advising (HPA) at Virginia Tech serves on the Health Professions Advising team in Career and Professional Development. Under the direction of the Director of Health Professions Advising, the person in this role contributes to developing and providing a broad range of services to support over 2,500 undergraduates and alumni preparing for careers in the health profession and pursuing professional school admission in fields such as medicine, dentistry, optometry, pharmacy, physician assistant, nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, clinical laboratory science and veterinary medicine. The assistant director provides advising, programs, presentations, teaching, resources and events to assist students towards meeting their goals; and participates as a lead interviewer in Evaluation Committee interviews and writes committee letters. Some evening and weekend work required.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in biological, life, health sciences, higher education, counseling, or related field
- Previous advising/educating/mentoring experience
- Demonstrated excellent advising/educating/mentoring and organizational skills as well as analytical skills
- Demonstrated effective interpersonal communication and ability to work cogently with diverse populations and/or professionals from a wide variety of disciplines, and related external organizations
- Demonstrated understanding of professional skills necessary to succeed in the health professions school admissions interview process
- Demonstrated excellent written communication skills and demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced environment
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience with academic and/or career advising
- Familiarity with health-related fields as well as knowledge of trends in medical/health professional school admissions
- Knowledge of and experience applying appropriate developmental and advising theories and approaches
- Previous experience advising/educating/mentoring adolescents and/or young adults