Job Title: Professional Advisor at Sevier County Campus

Hiring Salary Range: $46,933 - $58,665

Institution: Walters State Community College - Sevier County Campus (Employees are assigned to a “home” location but may occasionally or regularly be required to work at other WSCC locations.)

Job Purpose: Partner with students and assist them in determining and achieving their education and career goals. Assist students with career assessment and planning, support onboarding efforts prior to and during new student orientation sessions. Provide ongoing academic advising support and follow up with an assigned student population and guide students to college and community support services. Develop career and academic field expertise and gather transfer content knowledge through collaboration to share with students, faculty advisors, and staff.

Essential Job Functions:

• Establish a relationship with assigned students in one-on-one and group settings. Provide educational and career planning, academic advising and support throughout the student’s educational experience. Facilitate connections to WSCC and other support services. Document work and planning performed with students via Advisor Profile, Degree Works and other college technology tools.
• Assist with student onboarding activities and events, career assessment, and academic advising at new student orientation sessions. 
• Participate in continual research, training and professional development that is shared with faculty and staff at the college. 
• Participate in SSAC sponsored activities such as advising outreach, transfer fairs, First-Gen events, and career activities. 
• May perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Counseling, Communication, Education, Psychology, Social Work or a related field, minimum.
  
• 1-2 years of work experience with students in a higher education setting (TCAT, Community College or 4-year college/university) OR work experience in field related to the professional advising work to be performed.
  
• Ability to communicate effectively with WSCC students, staff and faculty as well as with professionals at other colleges and universities.
  
• Moderate to advanced experience with career assessment tools and labor market resources.
  
• Knowledge of and demonstrated ability in educational planning, transfer information, goal setting, and time management.
  
• Moderate to advanced knowledge of and demonstrated ability with Office 365.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the area of social services, counseling, and academia
  
• Master’s degree in Counseling, Communications, Education, Social Work or related field.
  
• Moderate to advanced knowledge of and demonstrated ability with BANNER systems.
  

Behavioral Core Competencies:

• Works effectively as team member to achieve goals and objectives.
  
• Shares information readily with others and listens effectively, showing openness to new ideas
  
• Treats team members with dignity and trust and shows respect for others’ race, nationality, gender, age, background, perspectives, experience and style.
  
• Displays a high degree of personal effectiveness; pursues objectives with consistent determination. Willing and prepared to accept personal responsibility for actions, both positive and negative.
  
• Treats team members with respect. Willingly responds to requests for assistance from team members.
  
• Respects the College’s rich heritage and historical achievements by embracing important changes that advance the College’s mission while honoring the past.
  
• Exercises discretion and forethought in the efficient utilization of organizational resources, showing respect for the organization’s generous benefactors and supporters.
  

Leadership & Supervisory: 

• Works effectively as team member to achieve goals and objectives.
• Shares information readily with others and listens effectively, showing openness to new ideas
• Displays a high degree of personal effectiveness; pursues objectives with consistent determination. Willing to accept personal responsibility for actions, both positive and negative.
• Treats team members with respect. Willingly responds to requests for assistance from team members.
• Respects the College’s rich heritage and historical achievements by embracing important changes that advance the College’s mission while honoring the past.
• Exercises discretion and forethought in the efficient utilization of organizational resources, showing respect for the organization’s generous benefactors and supporters.

Environment & Working Conditions: Duties are performed in a typical office environment that is clean, well lit, quiet, and temperature controlled. The position may require travel. Therefore, the incumbent is regularly exposed to varying weather conditions such as extreme heat or cold, rain, snow, etc., for short periods of time.

Physical Demands (including requirements for travel or working nights/weekends/holidays):

• Requires ongoing verbal communication via telephone, Teams, and in-person.
• Requires mobility needed to travel to other campuses to work with students.
• Sits for long periods of time staring at a computer screen and using a mouse and keyboard.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties of this job.

REQ#503993

Posting Closes: Friday, April 24, 2026