Provide advising for pre-health-interested students regarding academic requirements, co-curricular requirements, and professional school requirements as well as support for students and alumni who apply for professional health programs; maintain online repository of information about careers in health and allied health professions and organize correlated programming.
Reporting: The Pre-Health Adviser reports to the new Director of the Academic Advising & Student Success Center, with a dotted line to the Assistant Vice President and Executive Director for Career Development.
Essential Functions
- Advise students and recent graduates who express interest in exploring, preparing for, and pursuing careers in the health professions.
- Provide individual and small group career advising for pre-health-interested students.
- Plan, facilitate, and evaluate topically relevant programming and workshops (e.g., guest speakers, alumni panels, career-focused symposia) in collaboration with the Career Resources Center (CRC) and faculty in health-related fields.
- Collaborate with CRC on planning and leading off-campus treks and site visits; collaborate with CRC staff on cultivating opportunities for students to explore avenues for internships and volunteer experience in health-related fields.
- Establish relationships with and engage alumni and friends of Pacific who work in the health professions; collaborate with Alumni Relations and CRC on these efforts.
- Help students prepare for the application process to graduate and professional school in health-related fields.
- Promote opportunities to engage with recruiters from health-related professions.
- Serve as the official pre-med advisor for undergraduates at Pacific; collaborate with faculty advisers for Pre-Dent, Pre-Pharmacy Pre-Physical Therapy and Pre-Physician Assistant programs; collaborate with faculty advisers to support academic and pre-professional advising for other health professions.
- Establish relationships with and engage faculty and other campus community stakeholders in the development of programming, resources, and advising support for pre-health students.
- Maintain a Pre-Health Professions website with the assistance of the Undergraduate Education department’s webmaster with robust digital resources for students.
- Participate in advising events hosted by the Academic Advising and Student Success Center staff as well as orientation as requested.
- Visit medical and other professional health schools/programs and attend appropriate annual conferences (e.g., national and regional meetings of the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions) to remain current in best-practices pre-health advising.
- Collaborate with National Scholarship/Fellowship Adviser to advise students and alumni interested in applying for science-related fellowships (e.g., the Goldwater Scholarship).
- Proactively distribute messaging/marketing about pre-health advising and programming opportunities to undergraduate population holistically.
- Performs other essential duties and tasks specific to the position and as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
- M.A. or M.S. degree and at least three (3) years of experience in a health professions field, career advising for health professions students, or related field.
- Incumbent must be interested in and committed to working with a talented, diverse, and high-achieving community of undergraduate students. Prior experience planning events, leading groups, and building relationships and collaborating with diverse stakeholders (on- and off-campus) is strongly preferred.
- s must have prior experience coaching students on seeking and securing internships and full-time positions in the health professions, as well as applying to graduate school, medical school, dental school, and other health-related professional programs.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience using CRM, CMS, social media to support advising, student record keeping and data development, and leverage events to generate broad awareness of pre-health advising opportunities.