Student Success Advisor-Student Experience

Job description

Role: Student Success Advisor Grade and Salary: Grade 5 (£26,707-£31,236) FTE and working pattern: 1FTE (full-time): 35 hours per week for 3 years Holiday Entitlement: 28 days annual leave plus 9 buildings closed days (and Christmas Eve when it falls on a weekday).. Use our total rewards calculator: https://www.hw.ac.uk/about/work/total-rewards-calculator.htm to see the value of benefits provided by Heriot-Watt University. Purpose of Role: The Student Success Advisor will join an existing team, on a fixed term contract for a period of 36 months. The Student Success Advisors form part of a Global Student Success Advisor team and are a key part of the University’s strategy to improve student retention, focusing on student engagement, identity and belonging. The role spans pre-arrival, induction and transition activities as well as those related to student success, engagement and retention. Advice and support spans the whole student lifecycle: thus the role of the postholders is not simply to support students at risk of leaving their University studies. The post-holders will report to the Student Experience Manager, and will collaborate routinely with colleagues within Student Wellbei...