Director of Financial Aid

Everglades University•Miami, FL

23h

About The Position

The role of the Financial Aid Director is to ensure the Financial Aid department has the appropriate and accurate policies and procedures in place to help process student financial aid packages within federal and school guidelines. Oversee the Financial Aid Department. Hire and train all new financial aid administrators. Oversee daily activity that comes through the main financial aid department. Monitor all campus base funds (FWS, SEOG and Perkins). Review and monitor the Expected and Past due Cash flow for the campus. Review and monitor the student account balance. Double-check all refunds on Title IV funds are sent back to lenders for drops and graduates. Conduct Financial Aid appointments, explaining the FA forms and process to the students, then package them appropriately. Schedule monthly payments. Send paperwork to processing, file paperwork. Check on fund availability and deal with lenders. Review student financing with Bursar to ensure all students are completely and properly packaged. Financial Aid student overviews as needed, set appointments with new starts. Data entry of FA schedules, payments, forms, document tracking, etc., in Anthology.

Requirements

Director of Financial Aid must have a Bachelors degree.

Responsibilities

Manage other FA Officer daily activities
Run reports for review
Overviews as needed
Pull NSLDS
Send deferments to ALL prior lenders
Needs analysis
Explain Financial Aid to student/parent
Schedule Financial Aid
Schedule monthly payments OR Begin Private loan process
Document Track
Review any schedule any excess funds
Pull ISIR batches
Review all Status Change form for Academic Interrupt, Drops, Graduates and Leave of Absence (LOA)
Contact new starts to return/sign additional paperwork
Schedule Financial Aid in Anthology and enter documents for tracking
Schedule monthly payments
Repackaging Fianacial Aid for continuing students
Contact students about missing documents that are needed
Alternative loan paperwork â€" verify eligibility info
Review/follow-up on student accounts
Missing Documents Report, ensure complete file
Management meeting
Start date report/meeting with DOA
FA staff meeting
Staff meeting
Retention meeting â€" Pull and review LDA Report
CXL expected disbursements â€" Notify lenders/processing
Notify lender of status change
Filing/Audit file
Expected/Past due cash flow
Account balance meeting, review, discuss, follow-up
College Work Study time sheets to processing
Review/ Follow up on disbursements on funds that are coming in from the following lenders
Exit interviews for drops or graduates as necessary
Review Status Change Report
Run the Missing Documents Report to ensure complete file
Start Date report/meeting the Vice President and Admissions
Review LDA report with Academics at weekly meeting
Participate in weekly cash flow meetings and review accounts
FWS time sheet to process for payroll
Grad exits
Notify lender of status change
Audit files
Month's drop/grad report
Review Tuition Billing Report
Review available campus base funds
Review 3rd party monthly reports
Review missing high school/official transcript report
Discuss SAP with the Academics department
Ensure repacks are completed
Check on past due Private loans
Update the Institutional Effectiveness campus master plan
Review campus base funds for the branch campus
Review FSAG grant
Drop/Graduate report
Repacks
Attend the Institutional Effectiveness workshop
Attend the financial aid training workshop
Package all new students prior to start
Repackage all continuing students
Run the appropriate reports to check for potential problems
Build a relationship with lenders
Default management
Maintain a high level of student satisfaction