Study Abroad Advisor

A typical week tends to mix individual advising appointments, information sessions on programs, application reviews, pre-departure orientations, and sometimes crisis response when something happens to students abroad. You'll often work with students at decision points — choosing programs, weighing financial implications, navigating parent concerns. Health, safety, and risk management sit underneath everything because students go to varied destinations.

Coordination involves academic departments on credit transfer, financial aid on scholarship and aid abroad, partner program providers, host institution staff overseas, parents (with FERPA navigation), and risk management offices. Time-zone coordination with overseas programs shapes communication patterns.

People who tend to thrive here are culturally curious, organized across many concurrent threads, and calm during student crises that happen on the other side of the world. If you need office routine or low-stakes work, the global and unpredictable nature of the work can wear. If you find satisfaction in being part of experiences that change how students see themselves and the world, the role tends to feel deeply meaningful and globally connected.