The Associate Director, Financial Aid, under general direction, lends direct support to Director for management and general administration of scholarship and student financial aid programs. Provides leadership and direction to Assistant Director and assigned staff in planning, development, coordination, and delivery of their respective programs to meet needs of students and goals of department.
Requirements
- Provides leadership, supervision, and direction to staff in the development, maintenance, and management of student employment and work study programs, emergency tuition and short-term loan programs, record-keeping, coordination of outreach efforts, personnel issues, or financial and business-related activities.
- Assesses program effectiveness and makes recommendations for improvements.
- Provides leadership in development of both long- and short-range goals.
- Oversees operation and administration of outreach and early awareness, marketing, counseling, business process management, or budget management.
- Ensures recommendations and instructions from supervisors are carried out
- Makes recommendations concerning program funding levels and may recommend the awarding of student financial aid to needy students.
- Assists Director with formulating department policies and procedures, implementing strategic priorities, and developing programs at affiliated locations.
- Reviews the Quality Assurance Program findings and takes appropriate action.
- Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local program regulations and audits and takes appropriate corrective action.
- Assists with the preparation of federal, state, and operational reports.
- Manage the technical and functional aspects of the Financial Aid module of the Student Information System, including system setup, implementation, analysis, problem resolution, maintenance, reporting, and regulatory updates.
- Build, monitor, and maintain the Student Financial Aid System rules and processes.
- Collaborate with others in the processing of financial aid applications by coordinating the daily file import and export of electronic files from the Central Processing System (CPS) and Common Origination and Disbursement (COD), facilitating the assignment of students to different packaging groups, and reconciling data that may create inconsistency with the awarding process.
- Work closely with the University’s IT Department to establish, monitor, and synchronize financial aid batch processing.
- Responsible for improving efficiencies within all functional areas of Financial Aid by using technology to provide systematic solutions to problems and enhance existing processes.
- Develop and maintain all internal and external data interfaces, data reporting, set-up, and maintenance of the Banner financial aid management system.
- Assume primary responsibility relating to financial aid administration, including yearly implementation of the complex financial aid awarding model in Banner.
- Maintain software/databases, including testing new functionality, writing database algorithms for rules-based processing.
- Develop and test rules and validation tables
- Analyze financial aid business needs and develop strategies to resolve issues and develop processes to improve efficiency.
- Develop and maintain quality control reports and internal audit procedures to ensure compliance with federal and university regulations and policies.
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship
- Four Day Work Week
- Generous Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance
