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Assistant Director of Financial Aid

Employer: Denison University
Location: Granville, OH

Administrative Jobs: Institutional & Business Affairs, Financial Aid
Employment Type: Full Time
Institution Type: Four-Year Institution

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Job Details

Position Type:

Administrative Staff

Classification Title:

Administrative Staff

Position Title:

Assistant Director of Financial Aid

Position Number:

A00231

Pay Grade Level:

AD 01

Salary:

$55,000-$60,000

Department:

Financial Aid & Student Employment

Posting Number:

S 121301047

Full or Part Time:

Full Time

Number of Months:

FTE:

Work Schedule:

40 hour regular work week. Additional hours required as needed. Exempt/salaried position.

Basic Function:

Reporting to the Associate Director of Financial Aid, the Assistant Director of Financial Aid will perform a variety of functions related to federal, state, and institutional financial aid programs, including awarding, monitoring, and reporting. Provide customer service and counseling to prospective and current Denison students. Serve as a liaison for the Office of Financial Aid to the Denison community. Advance the goals of Division of Enrollment Management in support of the University Strategic Plan.

Essential Job Functions:

Determine student eligibility for financial aid programs, ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations and institutional guidelines. Ensure accurate and timely processing of financial aid. Analyze and monitor aid data and financial documents to verify eligibility. Manage counseling and awarding caseload.

Counsel students and parents about the financial aid process, eligibility, verification, special circumstances, awards, costs, debt management, and financial literacy.

Participate in department planning for financial aid operations and develop financial aid policy and procedures. Review and recommend changes for improved efficiencies in the department.

Work collaboratively with staff and faculty members to execute and improve financial aid services for students and the campus community.

Prepare and give presentations regarding financial aid for campus and high school groups, and at conferences and workshops.

Represent the University in a professional manner.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree with extensive experience working in college financial aid or another closely related field.
Must have a current, valid driver’s license and must be insurable under Denison’s liability insurance policy.

Preferred Qualifications:

Our ideal candidate will have:

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret business publications, technical procedures, government regulations, and institutional policies. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, policies, and procedures.
Ability to effectively present and respond to questions and requests from managers, colleagues, students, families, and the general public as financial aid representative.
Demonstrated mathematical ability to accurately calculate figures and amounts such as award totals, discounts, interest, proportions, and percentages.
Ability to apply quantitative and qualitative reasoning when making decisions and presenting data. Attention to detail.
Knowledge of the basic principles of federal financial aid programs and the financial aid. process, including the FAFSA, student eligibility, verification, and Satisfactory Academic Progress.
Demonstrated ability to use technology fluently for the administration and reporting of financial aid.
Ability to communicate and interact with people from diverse backgrounds, valuing diversity in the Denison community.
Clear appreciation for and understanding of the value of higher education.
Collaborative team player with the ability to work in a high-stress, deadline-driven environment; able to infuse daily work with levity and balance; and able to achieve and celebrate success.
Strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills; outstanding listener with strong relational skills.
Ability and commitment to maintain the highest degree of confidentiality.

Our preferred candidate will have:

Two or more years of experience in college financial aid, preferably at a private institution.
Experience working with the College Board’s CSS Profile, IDOC, and PowerFAIDS, as well as experience using Institutional Methodology (IM).
Demonstrated professional experience at an institution of higher education supporting a student enrollment-related function.

Physical Demands:

Must be comfortable in an office setting, operating general office equipment, including lifting boxes up to 20lbs.

Contact(s):

Elizabeth Taylor

Contact Phone/Extension:

740-587-6299

Contact Email:

taylore@denison.edu

Open Date:

06/09/2022

Open Until Filled:

Yes

Special Instructions to Applicants:

As one of the required documents, please provide contact information for three (3) work-related references, including name, address, phone number, email address, and professional relationship to you. References will not be contacted without your consent.

Additional Information:

Applications received by Thursday, June 30, 2022 will be assured full consideration.

Final candidate must provide documentation of educational degrees.

In our ongoing efforts to support the health of our community and continue to operate our campus safely, Denison requires all new hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 including a booster within the timeline guidance recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unless a Denison-authorized exemption is approved prior to the first date of employment. For more information and resources regarding this policy as a condition of employment, please visit https://denison.edu/campus/covid19

Denison University Background Check Statement:

The final candidate will undergo a background check, including a driving check, as a conditional offer of employment.

Denison University EEO Statement :

To achieve our mission as a liberal arts college, we continually strive to attract and hire candidates with diverse backgrounds, experiences and identities. Denison fosters a campus community that recognizes the value of all persons regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender expression and identity, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or socio-economic background. For additional information and resources about diversity at Denison, please see our commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity and antiracism (IDEA) at https://denison.edu/campus/denison-forward.

Organization

As one of the nation's leading liberal arts colleges, Denison offers an authentic education in the fine arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. Founded in 1831, Denison is one of the earliest colleges to be established in the old “Northwest Territory,” west of the Allegheny Mountains and north of the Ohio River. Denison is located in Granville, Ohio; 27 miles east of Columbus, the state capital.<img alt="denison_university1.jpg" src="http://www.insidehighered.com/careers/styles/medium/public/images/institution_profile/uploads/denison_university1.jpg" style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid; margin: 5px; float: right;" typeof="foaf:Image" /> Innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in the pursuit of knowledge and the cultivation of independent thinking. And because Denison is a residential college, students are deeply engaged as citizens of the campus community. They learn from one another in a rigorous academic setting, but also in rich social, cultural and political environments. As a residential undergraduate liberal arts college, Denison is among those places that have been called “distinctively American” in their contribution to higher education worldwide. In fact, it is one of a select number of institutions that today defines the type. Confident in the distinction of its graduates and advantaged by unusual resources, Denison has pointedly resisted the tendency in higher education to add layers of graduate degrees, professional schools, and service functions beyond the scope of baccalaureate education of the highest order. Entering its 177th year, Denison has maintained a fully residential campus based upon the well-tested premise that learning flourishes in community. Denison selectively admits successful, confident, and motivated students who seek to take advantage of highly participatory learning within classroom, laboratory, and studio and who expect to learn and grow through their investment in the challenges and opportunities of college life. The college attracts matriculants from across the country and more than three dozen nations. Denison engages students with outstanding professors in small classes that encourage men and women to take a high degree of personal responsibility for learning. Students pursue a major field of study selected from 39 areas offered by 28 disciplinary departments and interdisciplinary programs in the divisions of Natural Science, Humanities, Social Science, and Fine Arts as well as complete a sequence of General Education and a personalized curriculum of electives from across the college. <img alt="denison_university2.jpg" src="http://www.insidehighered.com/careers/styles/medium/public/images/institution_profile/uploads/denison_university2.jpg" style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid; margin: 5px; float: left;" typeof="foaf:Image" />A Denison education is not just for a living but for a life. Denison graduates are educated to be curious, resourceful, and reflective. They are expected to begin a life of learning at Denison, not complete it. They are well prepared for the rapidly changing world of the 21st century. Nothing defines a Denison education more than the mutually enriching relationships that develop between students and faculty. The heart of the college is a full-time faculty of almost 200. These men and women, who hold the most advanced degrees in their fields, are selected on the basis of pedagogical and scholarly ability and are encouraged to be innovative teachers whose continuing growth in their discipline through active scholarship allows them to be among the best at their craft. They look forward to the challenge and stimulation of their students even as they seek to draw the best efforts from them. Many Denison students come to regard professors as mentors, who frequently oversee students' independent scholarly projects. Denison’s faculty is committed to undergraduate education. As teacher-scholar-advisers, their principal responsibility is effective teaching informed by the best scholarship. Faculty members place a priority on working closely with students, interactive learning, and partnerships with students in original research. Denison’s low student/faculty ratio allows for close supervision of independent research and collaborative work in small groups and classes. <img alt="denison_university3.jpg" src="http://www.insidehighered.com/careers/styles/medium/public/images/institution_profile/uploads/denison_university3.jpg" style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid; margin: 5px; float: right;" typeof="foaf:Image" /> At Denison, men and women learn and grow in community, and the residential character of the campus is more than a convenience but a way of engaging the full student body in a shared enterprise. The college actively seeks academically superior students who bring diverse talents, interests, backgrounds, and experiences, believing that out of the classroom as well as within learning takes place by sharing, questioning, and growing together. Denison students have unusual opportunities to participate in the arts, in athletics and recreation, in service to others beyond the campus, in student organizational life, and in campus governance.

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