Graduation & Alumni Certification Manager

Auburn University•Auburn, AL

About The Position

The Office of the Registrar is seeking an energetic team player to serve as Manager of the Graduation team. This fast-paced, collaborative unit provides superior service in a variety of tasks and processes. The graduation team plays a critical role in verifying degree requirements and supporting graduating students, alumni, and faculty/staff. As the leader, this individual will coordinate and oversee degree-verification and awarding processes, provide support and collaboration with Auburn’s colleges and administrative units, manage external partnerships, and contribute to process innovations and improvements.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree
5 years of experience in a registrar's office, working with academic records/verifications, or closely related work.
Prior experience demonstrating increasing levels of responsibility
Some supervisory or team-lead experience

Responsibilities

Monitors the requirements for students pursuing graduation including ensuring appropriate hours are completed and minimum GPA achieved, assessing holds, and coordinating outreach with academic units to verify that graduation requirements have been met.
Manages and coordinates graduation team processes and reports including diploma application forms, web page updates, diploma orders, memos and reports, commencement programming and lists, degree verifications, and graduation statistics.
Coordinates and partners with key campus units inside and outside the Office of the Registrar including admissions, academic events (commencement), the pathway and transfer center, the graduate school, career services, and institutional research.
Evaluates and posts information to academic records to include designating honors and posting degrees, majors, and minors.
Coordinates the Office of the Registrar assistance with commencement ceremonies.
Coordinates, in conjunction with Associate Registrar, the graduation team’s needs and partnerships with external companies and organizations that provide diplomas, transcripts, verifications, and other needed products and services.
Contributes as a member of the graduation team.