Financial Aid Administrator

Part time (FTE 0.50), Seconded Member (i) or Volunteer Reports to Dean of Students Purpose The Dallas Int’l Financial Aid Administrator coordinates the Dallas Int’l Financial Aid Program as part of the Dallas Int’l Student Services to provide financial assistance to needy and qualified students. Such financial assistance may take the form of discounts, scholarships and work-study. Responsibilities (ii) Maintains and updates as required an appropriate Dallas Int’l Financial Aid Application and make it available to all inquiring students. Calls a meeting of the Financial Aid Committee in April and prepares all appropriate materials to enable the Committee to make scholarship awards Awards discounts and tracks them on SharePoint. Notifies all Applicants of the award decision made by the Committee, including scholarships and discounts Aligns those seeking a Work-Study assignment with a Work-Study Project Informs each scholarship recipient that they must write a Note of Appreciation to the donor as the Development Office may designate Submits a semi-annual report at the end of each school term to the Dean of Students of the total amounts of scholarships disbursed, the number of student scholarship recipients, total number of discounts disbursed, the number of students receiving each discount, and the number of work study projects assigned along with the number of students Makes an annual Project Registration to Wycliffe-USA for the Townsend Scholarship (June); Makes a quarterly Project Progress Report to Wycliffe-USA for the Townsend Scholarship (mid-February, mid-May and year-end report by end of October.) i A seconded member is a paid employee from another institution who is loaned to DIU through a partnership agreement. ii The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities. Staff members may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description. Qualifications Education / Experience Bachelor’s; at least 2 years’ bookkeeping experience or similar preferred. Moderate computer skills Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Record-keeping; ability to handle large amounts of data; ability to communicate effectively with committee members, students and other staff. Computer skills that include good working knowledge of MS Office: Excel and Word with mail merge capabilities for generating documents and emails. Willingness to learn and use the DIU administrative computer system – Campus Café. #J-18808-Ljbffr