DIRECTOR, FINANCIAL AID

DIRECTOR, FINANCIAL AID

Full Time

Canton Campus, Canton, IL, US

Salary: $50,000.00 Annually

Join Our Team at Spoon River College!

Spoon River College is a positive, team-oriented environment supportive of employee development.  We are currently seeking a Financial Aid Director. This is a full time exempt position.

Key Benefits of working at SRC:

• Friday's Off: Enjoy a long weekend every week from the week after graduation through the end of July.
• Business Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
• Leave Benefits: 15 sick days (pro-rated based on start date) and 23 accruing vacation days per year.
• Holidays: 8 paid holidays plus a paid Winter Break of at least 10 working days.
• Tuition Waiver: Employees, their spouses, and qualified dependent children are eligible for tuition waivers on credit hour classes.

For more information on the benefits of working at Spoon River College, visit SRC Employee Benefits (https://www.src.edu/about-src/employment/src-employee-benefits)

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Job Title:                         Director, Financial Aid

Status / FLSA Status:     FT / Exempt

Classification:                 Professional Support

Department:                   Student Services/Financial Aid

Reports To:                    Assistant Dean, Student Services

Location:                        Canton Campus (District Wide)

Date Updated:                June 2024

PRIMARY FUNCTION: Provides leadership of student financial aid and veterans affairs services.  

RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Oversees all functions at the College related to student financial aid.
2. Develops, updates, and presents financial aid information using various modes of communication to students, parents, community members, and various members of the college community.
3. Counsels and advises current, prospective, and SRC graduates and families regarding the availability of student financial aid. 
4. Administers, interprets and maintains financial aid policies and procedures to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal regulatory agencies.
5. Maintains comprehensive student financial records according to rules, regulatory legislation, and institutional requirements, including notification to the Business Office of award recipients and amounts.
6. Researches, analyzes, develops, and recommends departmental procedures to enhance operational efficiency and ensure administrative control to maintain regulatory compliance. 
7. Provides leadership in developing strategies to increase financial literacy.
8. Coordinate educational activities related to loan default.
9. Coordinates financial aid webpage.
10. Maintains student information system for financial aid including table maintenance and award year set-up.
11. Remains abreast of legislative and regulatory changes that may impact administering state and federal funds; communicates with various members of the college community to promote awareness. 
12. Processes return of funds calculations and facilitates the review of professional judgment requests including re-evaluation of need analysis in coordination with the Coordinator, Financial Aid
13. Develop and prepare proposals for student aid programs.
14. Prepares budgets and controls expenditures for financial aid. 
15. Prepares financial reports, claims, and other data subject to audits for federal, state, private, and institutional offices.  
16. Monitors submission of financial aid attendance rosters and nonattendance confirmation to determine when aid adjustments will begin. 
17. Prepares annual Budget Packet for ISAC (Illinois Student Assistant Commission).
18. Chairs the financial aid appeal committee and serves on the scholarship committee.
19. Assistance with and attendance at commencement is required annually or at minimum on a pre-approved scheduled basis.
20. Coordinates the College student work study program.
21. Develop, in cooperation with the Assistant Dean, annual goals and objectives.
22. Prepares and submits to the Assistant Dean an annual report summarizing accomplishments of the previous year.
23. Performs supervisory responsibilities of the Financial Aid staff.
24. Supervises the activities of the Office of Veterans Affairs.
25. Performs other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

Performs supervisory responsibilities in accordance with federal and state employment law, college policies and procedures, the supervisor handbook, and relevant collective bargaining unit agreements with regard to recruitment and selection, timely review and approval of timesheets, assigning workload and projects, performance evaluation, discipline, communication, departmental leadership and day-to-day supervision.  This position may supervise financial aid staff and student employees.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR ELIGIBILITY: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. 

1. A bachelor's degree in a related field is required.   A master's degree is preferred.
2. Three to five years of recruiting, advising, or related experience is required, with community college attendance or work experience preferred.
3. Broad-based financial aid experience demonstrating a wide range of skills and abilities is required, preferably in a community college setting.
4. Must possess a high level of confidentiality.
5. A valid and current Illinois State Driver’s License is required. 
6. Excellent management and leadership skills are required.
7. Must possess organizational abilities and superior interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
8. The ability to manage, lead, and influence a diverse dynamic student population and staff is preferred.
9. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide.  The ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs is preferred.
10. The ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals and write routine correspondence is preferred.  The ability to speak effectively before groups is preferred.
11. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists; ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form is preferred.
12. Ability to manage multiple and competing priorities; deal with conflict appropriately; withstand pressure and remain calm in tense situations, accurate; flexible; dependable; responsible; promotes teamwork; demonstrates a positive attitude is preferred.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS / WORK ENVIRONMENT: The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Physical demands for this position include the ability to regularly sit, use hands and fingers, talk and hear.  This position requires limited standing, walking, reaching, stooping/kneeling.   Vision requirements for this position include close vision including the ability to view text from a computer monitor.   This position requires some driving, the majority of which is within the College district.

The work environment for this position includes typical office environment with no extremes in temperature, noise, and limited physical risk.  

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