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Job Description

The Academic Program Advisor is a key role for delivering on The Washington Center (TWC)’s promise to students to provide them with a transformational experience – setting them on a course of achievement, leadership and civic responsibility. In this role, the Academic Program Advisors are responsible for working directly with college and university students to provide excellent customer service, supervision, and advisement through the leadership forum curriculum and internship experience.

Essential Functions

Student Learning/Instruction

• Create program syllabus outlining assignments, rubrics, and learning outcomes.
• Provide regular and consistent feedback and critique on assignments throughout the semester including, but not limited to the assignments outlined in the syllabus.
• Guide up to 40 students per semester in a themed cohort through an integrated experience incorporating academic learning, leadership, civic engagement and professional achievement.
• Host orientation sessions three times a year to prepare students for academic rigor as well as professional development impacts in their internship.
• Lead small group meetings at least 4-5 times per semester focusing on integrative learning, highlighting speaker series, cohort-specific programming, pillars and other topics.
• Debrief with students on current topics impacting cohort field.
• Plan at least 8-10 program events each semester that complement the internship experience and enhance the student experience.
• Play active role in TWC programs including, but not limited to, orientation, commencement, and the Simpson-Mineta Leaders Series (SMLS).

Student Experience

• Serve as a member of a TWC Pillar Committee to design and implement programs and special events in professional achievement, leadership, or civic engagement.
• Monitor student/supervisor relationship for professional development and enhancement of professional skill sets.
• Serve as a liaison between the student and the internship supervisor for problems that may occur.
• Develop relationship with internship supervisor and internship site that promotes TWC and provides an opportunity to guide the supervisor’s role in educating students in a professional setting. Provide documented feedback to the Office of Internship Site Relations (OISR) on this.

Student Advisement

• Mentor students while they are in the program, outlining and monitoring learning goals, and overall progress throughout the semester.
• Provide individualized counseling for students throughout the internship experience.

Administrative

• Recruit on average between 3 to 5 schools to share TWC’s message.
• Provide OISR with updates and briefings on current internship sites as well as potential new host sites.
• When necessary, provide background information to and coordinate with campus liaisons regarding student issues.

Education and Experience

An equivalent combination of education, training, and experience will be considered:

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

These are not reflected in the competencies but are critical to the successful performance of the job. These may be representative but not all inclusive of those commonly associated with the position:

Equipment

Used to perform the job and which may be representative but not all inclusive of those commonly associated with this position:

• Standard office equipment including a facsimile machine, photocopier, and telephone system
• Personal computer, job-related software and printer

Application Instructions

Please submit your resume and cover letter via our online application form.

Physical Abilities

Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform described essential functions of this job. These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

The employee may frequently lift and/or move up to 25lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, precise hand-eye coordination, and the ability to identify and distinguish colors. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use repetitive wrist, hand, and/or finger movement, reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl.

About The Washington Center

The Washington Center is the largest independent, nonprofit academic internship program in the United States. It brings together exceptional and dedicated college students and civic, governmental and business leaders, hundreds of colleges and universities, scores of public and private employers, and more than 50,000 alumni. Founded over 35 years ago, today TWC is a unique educational center based on a fully integrated mix of professional experience, academic coursework and real-life challenges.

The Washington Center offers two types of programs:

Internships

Semester integrated academic and work experiences in government, corporations and nonprofit organizations. Each internship is tailored to provide meaningful work experiences that will enhance students’ resumes and help launch their careers. Most internships are in Washington, D.C., but there are also opportunities abroad in London, England and Sydney, Australia. Additionally, students take academic courses and attend special programming during their time at TWC.

Academic Seminars

These intensive learning experiences are focused on specific topics, such as National Security, the Presidency and the Middle East Peace Process. Past seminars have included visits to such locations as Capitol Hill, CNN, the Newseum, embassies and many others. Seminar events have featured such respected speakers as Ted Koppel, Discovery Channel; Andrea Mitchell, NBC News; Governor Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee; and others.

EEO / MFDV

This job description is no way states or implies that these are the only duties preformed by the employee occupying this position.  Employees may be required to follow other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties as requested, subject to all applicable state and federal laws.

Certain job functions described herein may be subjected to possible modification in accordance with applicable state and federal laws.

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