Full Time - Financial Aid Director

Blinn College • Brenham, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Blinn College District is searching for a Full Time - Financial Aid Director at our Brenham Campus. This role serves as the District team lead for Financial Aid, Scholarships, Return of Title IV, and Veteran Services. The position provides leadership and oversight to ensure financial aid and student support processes are compliant with federal, state, and institutional regulations while maintaining efficient, effective, and student-centered operations. The Director will recruit, hire, train, and develop team members to deliver high-quality service to students and parents. This role oversees a broad range of financial aid and student support functions, including loan processing, ISIR loading and processing, TASFAA student processing, financial aid communications, state and federal financial aid awarding, professional judgment reviews, internal and external scholarship administration, athletic scholarship awards, Hazlewood benefits, and VA educational benefit processing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum 3-5 years of financial aid experience in a leadership role.
• Prior supervisory experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge of federal and state laws and regulations regarding financial aid programs and the ability to interpret and ensure compliance.
• Strong computer skills using Office products (spreadsheets, word processing) and experience with a Financial Aid management system above a user’s experience and knowledge.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills combined with careful attention to detail.
• Self-motivated and goal oriented, team player.
• Ability to communicate clearly and thoroughly with people of various backgrounds and experiences in such a way that they feel comfortable and willing to work well together.
• Ability to handle numerous complex and routine tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to effectively manage professional and support staff as well as student workers to produce a positive work environment leading to high productivity levels and school loyalty.
• Experience reconciling Title IV programs such as Pell Grant and Direct Loans.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience working in financial aid in a community college setting.
• Advanced knowledge in Banner.
• Prior supervisory and staff training experience.
• Prior experience managing and processing scholarship programs.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, and develop staff while fostering a collaborative student-centered team environment.
• Demonstrates strong judgment and attention to detail interpreting and applying federal, state, and institutional regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Demonstrates ability to manage complex, high-volume financial aid operations, improve service delivery, and build effective relationships with students, families, staff, and institutional partners.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the District team lead for Financial Aid, Scholarships, Return of Title IV, and Veteran Services.
• Provides leadership and oversight to ensure financial aid and student support processes are compliant with federal, state, and institutional regulations while maintaining efficient, effective, and student-centered operations.
• Recruits, hires, trains, and develops team members to deliver high-quality service to students and parents.
• Oversees a broad range of financial aid and student support functions, including loan processing, ISIR loading and processing, TASFAA student processing, financial aid communications through email, chat, social media, and text messaging, state and federal financial aid awarding, professional judgment reviews, internal and external scholarship administration, athletic scholarship awards, Hazlewood benefits, and VA educational benefit processing.
• Develops, in conjunction with the Dean of Financial Aid, the evaluation, planning, organization, and implementation of departmental policies, processes, activities, and other functions to maintain compliance, efficiency, and productivity.
• Sets up Banner and any other systems that process financial aid, reporting for state and federal requirements, and all processes for Financial Aid/VSO/Scholarships.
• Oversees the processes for all student loans and awards, manages all scholarship funds, reviews and manages the loading of FAFSA data, oversees all department related emails, social media, and texting, and works with the Veteran Services Office to process state and federal veteran education benefits.
• Specifically processes and manages all Return of Title IV, Federal Work study, verification, indexing document images to student accounts, awarding, and all state and federal veteran educational benefits.
• Manages the scholarship application process for all competitive budgeted academic scholarships (exemplary, Band, Choir, Theatre, Livestock Judging, etc.) and Endowed Scholarships.
• Ensures that all endowed scholarship funds are awarded, disbursed, and expended according to scholarship requirements.
• Maintains current knowledge of federal, state, and institutional policies and regulations that govern student employment, scholarships, loans, and other financial aid programs and veteran education benefits.
• Writes and tests Argos reports for all Financial Aid, veteran services, and scholarships.
• Develops, maintains, and utilizes email processes in Argos and Banner Communication Manager.
• Writes Banner SQL code and algorithms necessary to maximize Banner automation.
• Writes SQL code to use in SQL Developer, and in UC4 and to provide to IT.
• Produces and develops financial aid videos using various software.
• Advises students and reviews requests for professional judgments such as dependency overrides, income adjustments, homeless situations, or other unusual and extenuating circumstances that fall outside of the “normal” financial aid spectrum.
• Reviews documentation such as C flag, Pell lifetime limits, unusual enrollment, and additional situations that require additional review for students’ accounts.
• Supervises the Assistant Directors and Managers and trains staff.
• Maintains full capability to stand in for the Dean of Financial Aid as needed.
• Performs other related tasks as assigned.

Benefits

• Blinn College pays 100% of health insurance for full-time employees, 50% for dependents, and two times your annual salary in life insurance benefits.
• Optional coverage can begin on your first active duty date.
• Yearly leave time includes: 96 hours vacation, 40 hours discretionary, 16 hours personal, 8 hours sick each month.
• Paid leave for college designated holidays, spring break, Thanksgiving, and Christmas break (approx. 25 days per year).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager