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- Reports to the Director, Financial Aid and Veterans Affairs
- Assists current and prospective students with the delivery of financial aid, verification, student packaging, awarding, disbursement, budget components, application process, satisfactory academic progress, dependency overrides, professional judgment/special circumstances
- Manages all Return of Title IV fund according to federally mandated regulations and timeframes, including calculations, change of enrollment, lifetime eligibility (LEU) and unusual enrollment history (UEH)
- Tracks all official and unofficial Financial Aid student withdrawals, drops and non-attendance
- Ensures all aid adjustments are calculated accurately
- Monitors federal rules and regulations regarding Return of Title IV and attends training and online courses to ensure compliance
- Researches and monitors the development of Title IV Return regulations and participates in writing and updating college policies procedures to ensure compliance
- Obtains, tracks and manages all information required by the Federal Department of Education (DOE) for dependency overrides and unusual enrollment history (UEH), serving as primary contact for each
- Reviews and processes submitted material from students and renders federal professional judgement assessments, including but not limited to family court decisions, death certificates, clergy letters, police and FYFS reports
- Serves as departmental lead for the student verification process (Federal and State) and updates directors regularly on status of verifications
- Manages information provided by financial aid applicant and determines the need for additional documentation following established procedures for verification and packaging students
- Performs student verifications
- Monitors the report of students selected for verification to track departmental progress in verification completion
- Monitors federal and state rules and regulations regarding student verifications and attends training and online courses to ensure compliance
- Researches and monitors the development of federal and state verification regulations and participates in writing and updating college policies and procedures to ensure compliance
- Assists in the development of financial aid enrollment management strategies and tracks students in the financial aid process to help maximize student financial aid process completion
- Communicates with students selected for verification and follows up with students who have incomplete verification information
- Writes and runs query reports
- Prepares recommendations for further documentation needed to maintain college’s compliance
- Manages, coordinates and implements special events to support public relations goals, develops PowerPoints and publications
- Presents at recruitment and community events
- Conducts presentations on or off campus relating to financial aid including but not limited to high school nights, student orientations and open houses in both Atlantic and Cape May Counties
- Serves as liaison between the Academy of Culinary Arts and Financial Aid
- Performs related duties as assigned
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