Scholarship Coordinator, COSI Achieve and Affiliate Scholarship Programs

Job Summary

The Office of Undergraduate Education (OUE) welcomes applications for a Scholarship Coordinator! This position manages the Colorado Department of Higher Education’s (CDHE) Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative (COSI) Achieve and affiliate scholarship programs. Responsibilities include administering all aspects of the COSI Achieve program on the CU Boulder campus, from scholarship selection to program design, implementation, and annual reporting. Additionally, this role serves as a liaison to various community-based organizations and affiliate scholarship programs.

This role plays an important part in enhancing the student experience by supporting recruitment, enrollment, retention, advising, engagement, event planning, enrichment activities, and outreach. The position reports to the Director of Undergraduate Academic and Community Enrichment in the Office of Undergraduate Education (OUE).

The COSI Achieve and Affiliate Scholarships Coordinator understands and promotes the University’s commitment to inclusion for all students and its strategic imperatives of shaping tomorrow's leaders, being the top university for innovation, and positively impacting humanity.

CU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. We are committed to creating a workplace where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity, and we encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

The Office of Undergraduate Education (OUE) oversees the academic undergraduate experience at CU Boulder, provides extraordinary educational experiences, serves exploring students and collaborates with a variety of units to ensure that students have access to the resources they need to succeed.

• Provide direct wraparound student support, focusing on providing students with the support and tools to overcome institutional, social, wellness, and academic barriers that may impede their progress toward completion.
• Partner with the Student Academic Success Center (SASC) and Transfer Success Initiatives to align efforts. Provide direct support to COSI scholars through appointments, workshops, events, and maintain ongoing communication.
• Conduct workshops, events and community engagement activities for scholars.
• Manage COSI scholar caseload and provide individual scholar support.
• Develop and maintain transparent and equitable scholarship processes.
• Support remaining cohorts of COSI Matching Student Scholarship (MSS) recipients.
• Support individual donor/foundation scholarship recipients.

• Serve as a liaison to campus departments, such as but not limited to, the Offices of Financial Aid, Scholarships, Admissions, Advancement, and with donors, external funding organizations, and like institutions to advance academic success campus-wide.
• Maintain consistent communications with faculty and staff about student needs, opportunities, scholarships, events, etc.
• Represent CU Boulder at COSI and other student events throughout the year and serve as a point of contact.
• Collaborate with and support other programs within the Undergraduate Academic and Community Enrichment unit, including the Denver Scholarship Foundation and the CU LEAD Alliance.

• Administration of CU Lead, COSI and affiliate scholarships in Blackbaud Award Management system which includes developing annual spend plans, communicating plans to partners, renewals and communicating scholarship requirements to scholars.
• Steward donors and grant scholarship/programming funds in a highly detailed, and often personalized manner.
• Scholarship liaison for all affiliate community partners and internal donor/foundation scholarships.
• Connect with community partners to establish clear processes and MOUs.
• Ensure agreements with donors and foundations are fulfilled and recipients are actively engaged.
• Manage individual donor scholarships.
• Coordinate appeals and troubleshoot scholarships…