Description
This position is responsible for overseeing the awarding and administration of all student loans, state scholarships, and state grants at GCSC. They are also responsible for the administration of financial aid for clock hour programs and Return to Tile IV calculations.
What Gulf Coast State College offers you:
- An excellent work/life balance, with a standard work week of 37.5 hours/week!
- Retirement Plan and 403b or 457b savings plan that will allow you to plan for your future!
- An excellent state medical plan. ($50 individual and $180 for family)
- Additional benefits of dental, vision, short and long term disability insurances, and College-paid life insurance!
- Critical Illness, Cancer, and Whole Life insurance plans!
- Accrued annual leave, sick leave
- Tuition reimbursement opportunities!
- Opportunities to volunteer for committees to help in your professional growth!
Examples of Duties
- Manage the federal Return to Title IV process, ensuring compliance in these detailed and complex federal rules and regulations.
- Manage financial aid for students in clock hour programs to include calculating, awarding, and monitoring using detailed and complex federal rules and regulations
- Manage the packaging process and awarding of multiple need-based funds.
- Oversee and ensure compliance in the administration of all student loans, state scholarships, and state grants.
- Reconcile various federal and state financial aid programs both internally and externally.
- Coordinate with fellow post-secondary institutions to ensure that students arent receiving federal Pell grant funds at two schools simultaneously.
- Oversee consortium student processing by coordinating FL Shines submissions, initiating R20/R30 requests, applying enrollment adjustments, and ensuring
- Advise and counsel students and families about financial aid options.
- Provide support with front desk responsibilities as needed
- Attend and support Financial Aid events as needed to assist students and families
- Provide excellent customer service to students and families.
- Participate in training, conferences, associations, and professional development to remain current with federal, state, and institutional regulations and processes.
- Perform miscellaneous tasks, as assigned.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Supervise up to two employees, including the Financial Aid Specialist.
Typical Qualifications
This position requires a Bachelors degree, from a regionally accredited college or university, and at least two (2) years of customer service experience. At least one (1) year of financial aid, accounting, or banking experience is preferred.
This position is sensitive and will require a criminal background check. Notice of E 'verify participation.
Supplemental Information
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position. Work is performed in a normal office environment requiring extensive sitting and use of keyboard. The noise level in the environment is moderate due to office equipment, computers, printers, and general office conversation.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands 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 the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, talk, and hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, and feel. The employee is regularly required to walk and reach with hands and arms. The employee may be required to lift and/or move up to 20 pounds and climb/balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl. The vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus as well as ability to determine the color of objects.
*Gulf Coast State College does not discriminate against any person in its programs, activities, policies or procedures on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, national origin, marital status, religion, age, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.*
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $44,129.00 - $49,299.00 per year
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person