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Standard Job Description

A standard job description describes work at a high level and connects UW job titles to similar job titles in the market. It is a general set of responsibilities, without regard to any specific employee, that describes the work an employee performs and their role and impact to the organization.

Salary information for jobs outside of salary ranges 15-35 is located on the UW System Compensation Appendices webpage.

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Title Details
Job TitleAcademic Advising Assistant Director (B)
Job CodeAE131
Scaled JobYes
Salary Grade22
Family NameAcademic Services and Student Experience
Sub Family NameAcademic Advising
Job Overview
Job SummaryServes as a work unit leader on academic advising and related service delivery. Contributes to strategic initiatives, program, and personnel management, and strives to create a welcoming, equitable, and inclusive work environment.
Job Responsibilities
  • Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
  • Contributes to the conceptualization, development, and implementation of strategic initiatives to ensure alignment of strategy and operations
  • Receives, processes, and responds to academic inquiries according to established policies and procedures
  • Advises students and provides information about educational options and academic requirements. Identifies and assesses interests, skills, and values to match appropriate field of study/career options and refers students to appropriate institutional resources
  • Develops and implements academic advising events such as workshops, panel discussions, and guest speakers
  • Maintains confidentiality and accurate student records and processes and responds to academic inquiries according to established institutional and Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) policies
  • Participates in the campus-wide advising community providing input to leadership regarding the development of advising, recruitment, and co/curricular programs offered by the school/college
  • Manages one or more specific operational area(s) or functional area(s) or program(s) within the unit
  • Serves as a liaison to internal and external stakeholders to maintain campus partnerships
  • Maintains expertise with advised curriculum and may assist in developing and recommending exceptions for policy and curriculum
Additional Information
Employee CategoryAcademic Staff (AS)
Supervision RequiredYes
FLSA ExemptExempt
Education*Bachelor's Degree - Preferred Minimum
FLSA Threshold ExemptionACADEMIC ADMINISTATOR

*All preferred education can be fulfilled with comparable experience, unless education is listed as required for the job.

Scaled Jobs in the Library

The title and salary structure continues the idea of creating additional job titles for some jobs found systemwide or university-wide based on a small, medium, and large designation. We call this scaling. If there is a scaled job available, universities should choose that job for their employees.

  • Scaling is not title progression.
  • Scaling is a type of further refining the market pricing for a job.
  • For example,

    Title

    TTC Title

    ASSOC DIR, ATHL/L

    Athletics Assoc Dir

    ASSOC DIR, ATHL/M

    Athletics Assoc Dir (B)

    ASSOC DIR, ATHL/S

    Athletics Assoc Dir (C)

Key

Institution Scale
System A – no ( )
Milwaukee A – no ( )
Eau Claire (B)
La Crosse (B)
Oshkosh (B)
Platteville (B)
Stevens Point (B)
Stout (B)
Whitewater (B)
Green Bay (C)
River Falls (C)
Parkside (C)
Superior (C)

Scale is based on the size and budget of a university.

(Inst)

(Inst) typically designates institution-wide or systemwide scope and a non-institution version of the same job title typically indicates use at a School/College/Division/Department-level.

Minimum Education Requirements

The minimum preferred education represent the systemwide shared minimum elements of each job description. When posting for an open position, universities can add additional requirements or preferences to their specific recruitment.