Senior Academic Advisor, Exploratory & Pre Professional Advising Center

🇺🇸 Buffalo, New York 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $67K - $70K 💻 Academic Advising 🗓️ November 13th, 2026

MCAT Presentations Pre-health

Edtech.com's Summary

University at Buffalo is hiring a Senior Academic Advisor, Exploratory & Pre Professional Advising Center. The role advises undergraduates who are preparing for competitive health professional schools such as medical, dental, veterinary, optometry, and physician assistant programs, from academic planning through the application process. The advisor works within the Exploratory and Pre-Professional Advising Center alongside campus partners to support students’ transition into those programs.

Highlights

Advise prospective and current students exploring medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and other competitive health programs, with individualized guidance on academic planning and prerequisite sequencing.
Coach students on centralized professional school applications, standardized exams such as the MCAT, DAT, and GRE, personal statements, and interview preparation.
Guide students in building clinical, research, volunteer, and shadowing experience, and in considering post-baccalaureate and alternative health profession pathways.
Lead and coordinate the Alpha Epsilon Delta (AED) Prehealth National Honor Society, serving as a key liaison to prehealth students.
Deliver small and large group presentations to current and prospective prehealth students.
Provide frontline support for the center’s advising needs, orientations, activities, and programs, and connect students with academic programs, career exploration, and student-success resources.
Master’s degree and one year of professional academic advising experience with students in a college or university setting.
Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree in higher education administration, student affairs, counseling, or a related field, three or more years of advising experience, and experience with high-achieving or pre-health students.
Salary of $67,375 to $70,000 for a full-time, term professional appointment on UB’s North Campus.