Full Time, Maternity Cover

1 November 2024

UWCSEA East is seeking an appropriately qualified and experienced University Advisor from March 2025 until July 2025.
Considerable current experience of advising students applying for admission to universities in North America and the United Kingdom is required. Familiarity with advising and application processing in Australia, Europe and Asia would be valuable, as would experience in advising students with financial aid needs.
The appointee will join a passionate team of University Advisors who enjoy working together in a highly collaborative atmosphere alongside an incredibly talented faculty. The appointee can look forward to supporting and mentoring highly motivated, enthusiastic, and talented students as they grow through their High School career.

Main Responsibilities

• Contribute as part of a team to the delivery of a comprehensive programme of university advising services for a high school of 1,000+ students, including guidance, information and advocacy as they navigate university application processes in 20+ countries worldwide.
• Conduct personal advising meetings with an assigned caseload of 50+ each in G11 and G12, including some students with high financial needs, and help them in their process of planning, researching, and applying to universities, identifying and understanding career options, and implementing their post-graduation plans; provide additional advice and support for up to 10 graduates currently taking gap years or doing National Service.
• Support 40+ Grade 10 students with answers to questions about IB subject selection based on their future aspirations.
• Collaborate with other Advisors, Counsellors, Heads of Grades, Principal and Vice Principals on the overall wellbeing and welfare of students.

Administration and Communication

• Inform students, parents/guardians, and staff about university systems and admissions processes worldwide, by facilitating small and large group workshops and presentations.
• Provide individual feedback on drafts of students’ personal statements/essays.
• Support the understanding and skill development of teaching staff in relation to the university application process, especially in their roles as recommendation writers.
• Use Maia Learning online platform for university research and application processing.
• Manage and track university applications, including processing school issued support documents, following up with university representatives and troubleshooting as needed.
• Communicate with Grade 9 students and parents/guardians about age-appropriate university exploration and other relevant information.
• Contribute to collation and analysis of university application and placement data, and use appropriate data analysis to inform university guidance.

Expectations and Standards

• Follow the
  UWCSEA Professional Code of Conduct
  and
  Safeguarding Code of Conduct
  .
• Teach in line with the
  UWCSEA Teacher Standards

Person Specifications

• A degree and experience with the US and UK university application systems, as either a High School University Advisor or in university admissions, are prerequisites.
• Candidates should ideally already be working (or recently worked) as a University Advisor in a similar environment for at least three years and be well suited to making the transition to this post at UWCSEA.
• The ability to engage with students and to engender enthusiasm for learning is a prerequisite for working at UWCSEA.
• Belief in the transformative power of education; interest in furthering the values of equity and access to educational opportunities; openness to new ideas; stamina, collaborative spirit, and a sense of humour.

Applications

The UWC Mission is to make education a force to unite people, nations and culture for peace and a sustainable future. We are committed to creating a community in which all members feel safe and secure, and know that their authentic selves and individual differences are accepted with respect and care. At UWCSEA, we acknowledge that diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) is an ongoing and evolving process and strive to create and sustain a sense of belonging for all members of our community, past, present and future. All qualified applicants, including those who identify as a part of marginalized group(s) and individuals with (dis)abilities are all encouraged to apply. Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all the students in our care and expects all applicants to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices and all appointments are subject to interview, satisfactory references, identity and criminal record checks.

About UWCSEA and the UWC movement

Our vision is to be a leader in international education, with a worldwide reputation for providing a challenging, holistic values-based education with an emphasis upon academic achievement, service to others, teamwork and leadership.
In the pursuit of this vision, we provides teachers with a dynamic and challenging a professional life based upon our values. Our staff are innovative, experienced and deeply committed to student learning. The learning at UWCSEA extends throughout the College community as our staff are active and collaborative learners themselves.

UWCSEA guiding statements

UWCSEA's learning programme and curriculum

The learning programme delivers UWCSEA's unique, concept-based curriculum which has been articulated for each element of the learning programme across K-12. This means that from K1 to Grade 12, each curriculum area (or subject) has standards, which identify key concepts that underpin that curriculum area. These standards are applied at all grade levels and build naturally in complexity through the Infant, Junior, Middle and High Schools, culminating in the IB Diploma in Grades 11 and 12.
In turn, each standard has conceptual understandings that describe what a student should understand as a result of studying a particular content area. They are statements of understanding that are appropriate to a student’s developmental stage, and build towards the standard.
Benchmarks are then attached to each conceptual understanding. The benchmarks describe what a student should know, understand or be able to do at each stage of their learning in each subject. These benchmarks are what our teachers assess to ensure that students are reaching the conceptual understanding and are working towards the standards.
In the High School, the standards, conceptual understandings and benchmarks specifically take into account the requirements of external examining bodies that set the (I)GCSE and IB Diploma examinations that students sit at the end of Grade 10 and Grade 12.

Educating for a better world

The academic curriculum aims to develop the specific conceptual understandings necessary to build Peace and a Sustainable Future. These are derived from UNESCO’s Education for Sustainable Development Goals for and through a collaboration with our educational partners the Ellen Macarthur Foundation. Along with the skills and qualities of our Learner Profile many of these concepts are reinforced through linkages to the other four elements of our Leaning Programme. You can find out more here.

Results

Staff and structure

Our expectations

We welcome applications from educators who share our vision and values, and are willing to contribute to UWCSEA's unique learning community and to the UWC mission.
Teachers are expected to contribute wholeheartedly to the provision of all elements of this programme both inside and outside the formal academic curriculum. All teachers run activities or service projects in addition to their teaching, which can include supporting the College's range of sporting, dramatic and musical performances, as well as providing support for the extensive expeditions programme.

Safeguarding children

Professional life and development opportunities

We offer a wide range of professional development opportunities. Teachers are expected to commit to three professional development days scheduled each year, and are provided many additional opportunities for professional learning through our the extensive Professional Development Programme.
We have a highly experienced teaching faculty who provide excellent opportunities for peer-to-peer learning. Among the full-time teaching staff, we have large numbers of IB PYP Trainers, IB MYP workshop leaders, IB DP workshop leaders and IB DP Examiners or Moderators, allowing us to run in-house workshops and seminars.
Teachers attend workshops or seminars in the region, and at the College’s Centre for Professional Learning. This in-house Centre allows UWCSEA teachers to attend a range of educational conferences and other events that draw teachers from across the region, providing extensive opportunities for peer learning and networking. In the past, external experts who have visited to provide workshops or seminars on campus include Bambi Betts, Kath Murdoch, Dylan Wiliam, Lyn Sharratt and Sarah White.
Our teachers also regularly act as lecturers, seminar leaders and facilitators at educational conferences and workshops run by organisations such as EARCOS and ECIS.

Engage with us and learn more