Financial Aid Manager

Title: Financial Aid Manager

Position Number:

Hiring Unit: Student Affairs Financial Aid Office

Location: Maui College

Date Posted: January 29 2025

Closing Date: Continuous

Salary: Salary schedules and placement information

Additional Salary Information: Pay Band B: Minimum $5250/month

Full Time/Part Time: Full Time

Temporary/Permanent: Permanent

Funding: General

Other Conditions:

This is NOT a remote position the job requires inperson work.

SERVICE ADMINISTRATION & ENROLLMENT PROGRAMS

1. Exercises senior administrative responsibility in providing leadership vision direction expert guidance and accountability for programs services and activities related to student attainment of their educational goals through financial aid resources.
2. Collaborates with stakeholders to create implement and evaluate a variety of strategies services programs and activities directed toward helping students address financial issues and needs that impede enrollment and educational goal attainment.
3. Plans administers and evaluates financial aid programs to ensure adherence to laws regulations policies and guidelines of the federal government state government and University.
4. Crafts implements and evaluates processes and procedures to ensure accuracy and efficiency of service as well as submitting annual fiscal and other programmatic reports as required by federal state or University requests.
5. Monitors student financial aid histories and assesses the impact of past aid on student eligibility to receive future aid ensuring student compliance with satisfactory academic progress as specified by the federal government state government and University policies.
6. Promulgates implements and evaluates financial aid criteria processes and procedures affecting the financial needs of the student applicant pool setting priorities within the applicant pool and responding with aid awards to the extent possible.
7. Evaluate policies and practices to ensure the equitable and fair administration of aid to all qualified students and to comport verification reviews award revisions and loan originations with federal state and institutional requirements.
8. Serves as senior campus liaison with Banner Central General Accounting & Loan Collection System Financial Aid and other offices to manage and maintain online financial aid modules and information systems of Banner and STAR.
9. Leads the creation and delivery of quality services to students so they may better understand financial aid and receive financial aid guidance.
10. Develop and execute communication plans and promotional materials including management of content and formats of web pages and other social media.

1. Oversees institutional responses to inquiries promptly face to face in writing via email phone and other media.
2. Evaluate and decide on individual situations requiring special consideration offering guidance and leadership in matters related to satisfactory academic progress complete withdrawals R2T4 budgeting loan repayment exits and defaults.
3. Assists Admissions and Records Teams with events related to the recruitment application enrollment and matriculation of prospective accepted and enrolled students.

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES

1. Manages and directs facilities services and operations related to federal state and institutional aid and private scholarships.
2. Provides oversight and direction for the recruitment selection training supervision and evaluation of all professional and administrative financial aid employees including interns practicum students and student assistants.
3. Establishes promotes and sustains a culture of positive customer service to assist students and their families in applying and using financial aid resources to meet students educational goals.
4. Exercises budgetary direction and accountability for delegated accounts.
5. Develops implements interprets and revises as needed appropriate policies procedures and operational manuals governing assigned programs facilities and services directing others in reviewing and evaluating such policies and procedures.
6. Collaborates with others in the concept design development and production of all outreach materials informational brochures literature and other social media used for student financial aid services and literacy.

OTHER

1. Provides management skills and knowledge to include serving in the absence of a supervisor.
2. Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Education and Professional Work Experience

• Possession of a baccalaureate degree in Business Administration Management Social Sciences Education or a related field and five 5 years of progressively responsible professional experience with responsibilities for providing educational services or assistance to students including student financial aid administration student support services student affairs administration or administrative support or related work experience including supervisory experience; or any equivalent combination of education and/or professional work experience which provides the required education knowledge skills and abilities as indicated.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Considerable working knowledge of principles practices and techniques in the area of student financial aid student support services and student affairs administration as demonstrated by the broad knowledge of the full range of pertinent standard and evolving concepts principles and methodologies.
• Considerable working knowledge and understanding of applicable federal and state laws rules regulations theories and systems associated withstudent financial aid student support services or student affairsadministration.
• Demonstrated ability to resolve wideranging complex problems through the use of creative reasoning and logic to accurately determine the cause of the problems and the resolution of the problems in an effective innovative and timely manner.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret and present information and ideas clearly and accurately in writing verbally and by preparation of reports and other materials.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external organizations groups team leaders and members and individuals.
• Demonstrated ability to operate a personal computer apply word processing software.
• Demonstrated ability to lead subordinates manage work priorities and projects and manage employee relations.

Supplemental Minimum Qualifications

1. Considerable knowledge of organizational processes as applied to the management and analysis of operations services facilities and programs.
2. Demonstrated ability to facilitate groups towards collaborative problemsolving.
3. Ability to interpret and apply legal and policy provisions to situations consistently.
4. Ability to work outside normally scheduled business hours including evenings and/or weekends as necessitated by branch requirements.
5. Ability to apply analytical approaches especially in data extrapolation review and analysis to discern trends and to develop strategies to address such trends and concerns.
6. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with multicultural populations.
7. One year of supervisory experience in enrollment services or student affairs.

Desirable Qualifications

1. Five 5 years of professional experience with responsibilities in higher education delivering financial aid services.
2. Two years of supervisory experience in enrollment services or student affairs.
3. Significant experience working with nontraditional students and minority populations.
4. Significant experience with student information systems in higher education.
5. Skilled in teambuilding and developing collaborative partnerships.
6. Masters degree in business administration educational administration or public administration.

Inquiries:

Name: UH Maui College Human Resources

Phone:

Email:

INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILLNOTBE CONSIDERED

To Apply:Click on the Apply button on the top right corner of the screen to complete an application and attach the required documents. In addition to the Application applicants must attach the following:

1. Aone to twopage statementoutlining ways in which you meet the minimum and desirable qualifications;
2. Official graduate and undergraduate transcript(s) showing degree and coursework to date appropriate to the position copies of official transcripts are acceptable; however original official transcripts will be required at the time of hire. Transcripts issued outside the United States of America require a coursebycourse analysis with an equivalency statement from an agency having membership with the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services Inc. verifying the degree equivalency to that of an accredited institution within the USA. The expense of the evaluation shall be borne by the applicant.

• Academic record/grade summaries will NOTbe accepted.
• Diplomas and copies will NOTbe accepted.

1. Resume
2. Three 3 professional references with contact information (including email addresses)
3. Optionalletters of recommendation.

Incomplete applications willNOTbe considered.NOTE:

• The application will be incomplete if materials are unreadable illegible password protected missing or corrupted; therefore late or incomplete applications will not be considered. All requested documents/information become the property of Maui College and will not be returned.
• Please do not include any selfidentifying photos and redact any references to confidential information on submitted documents (social security number date of birth etc..

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