Job Description
The Specialist aids in scholarship and state grant awarding to include processing, cancelling, and reviewing requests. Responsibilities also include reviewing appeals for the Hope Scholarship, TN Promise, and TN Reconnect, as well as assisting students and families with any questions they have concerning state awards.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
The Specialist aids in scholarship and state grant awarding to include processing, cancelling, and reviewing requests. Responsibilities also include reviewing appeals for the Hope Scholarship, TN Promise, and TN Reconnect, as well as assisting students and families with any questions they have concerning state awards.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Determine state award eligibility by reviewing TN FAST and Banner Ellucian systems.
- Ability to efficiently operate a personal computer and associated software (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.) and Ellucian Banner.
- Ability to communicate effectively and appropriately.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality of records and information.
- Ability to interact in an effective and appropriate manner with diverse populations, the University community and the public.
- Ability to detect and correct grammatical and spelling errors in written correspondence.
- Ability to maintain files accurately.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Ability to effectively supervise and motivate students as appropriate.
- Ability to accurately process applications.
- Ability to understand and disseminate information about federal and state regulations.
- Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
- Associate's Degree or a minimum of two years of college study.
- Prior financial aid experience preferred.
- A background check will be required of the successful applicants.
Austin Peay State University is a four-year public, doctoral-level university, with six colleges and four Chairs of Excellence. The University has an enrollment of over 11,000 students and is located in Clarksville, Tennessee, a community of an estimated 150,287 people located approximately 40 miles northwest of Nashville, TN.
Austin Peay State University is a proud supporter of hiring veterans. We hire veterans with equivalent experiences and pay grades from their military service, rather than requiring or preferring only college degrees. Please visit our website for more information on how veterans can qualify for additional employment opportunities at APSU: https://www.apsu.edu/human-resources/hiring-veterans/.
Austin Peay State University (APSU) prohibits discrimination in all employment, programs, and activities based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), disability, age, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. For Title IX inquiries or complaints, contact: Chief of Institutional Culture & Title IX Coordinator, LaNeeça R. Williams at williamslr@apsu.edu | 931-221-7690, Browning Building, Room 140, Clarksville, TN 37044. For other non-discrimination concerns, contact: Director of Institutional Culture & Title VI & Title VII Coordinator, Dr. Jo Baldwin at baldwinjapsu.edu | 931-221-7178 or Associate Director of Accessibility Compliance & ADA/504 Coordinator, Jayme Glover at gloverj@apsu.edu | 931-221-7160. View APSU's full nondiscrimination policy at Policy 6:001.