Senior Special Financial Aid Counselor

North Shore Community College is a diverse, caring, inclusive community that inspires our students to become engaged citizens and to achieve their personal, academic, and career goals through accessible, affordable, rigorous educational opportunities that are aligned with our region's workforce needs and will prepare them for life in a changing world. NSCC is one of 15 Massachusetts community colleges, which serves the 26 cities and towns north of Boston.

Since its founding in 1965, NSCC has grown from a single leased building to an urban campus in downtown Lynn and a suburban campus in Danvers, and from five to 80 academic programs of study. Nearly 50,000 students have graduated from NSCC. The college is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE).

MCCC Unit Professional position, Grade 5

Campus

Location:

Danvers Campus with 1 remote day

Work Schedule:
Monday through Friday 9-5

SALARY: Anticipated starting salary is $73,412.00 - $75,000.00. Actual salary will be commensurate with education and experience in accordance with the MCCC/MTA collective bargaining agreement. Full time benefited employees at North Shore Community College are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package offered through the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  for a highlight of these benefits.

At this time, the College is not providing sponsor ships for Visas.

GENERAL STATEMENT OF DUTIES:

The purpose of the classification is to assist with the planning, organization, and administration of federal, state, and institutional financial aid programs for college students, including grants, scholarships, loans, and student employment. Employees in this classification perform administrative work involving the processing of student aid applications to determine eligibility for financial aid, dissemination of financial aid information, and maintenance of financial aid records.

Classification is responsible for advising students on application procedures, reviewing student aid application files, determining eligibility for federal, state, and institutional financial aid, awarding aid to eligible students, and assisting with financial aid office operations. This classification should guide students through the whole financial aid process and how it correlates and intersects a student's academic goals. This classification is also responsible for advising students on financial literacy, inclusive of personal financial management, budgeting and investing.

Also responsible for coordination of assigned staff. Performs related work as directed.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Serves as financial aid counselor and works with students to develop plans on how best to fund their academic plans (i.e.
  
  - conducts financial aid advising, with a focus on career goals, and transfer advising, advises students regarding their fiscal responsibilities and how their academic performance affects their eligibility for aid. Provides information regarding funding options, and how to complete applications for aid assistance [federal, state, institutional and outside scholarships]; monitors academic progress of students to ensure they maintain their financial aid eligibility status;
  
  advises students on how registering, adding, or withdrawing from courses may affect their eligibility for additional aid; works with faculty to help identify students experiencing academic difficulties; participates in new student orientations, open houses, registration events and financial aid assistance workshops)
• Processes student financial aid applications (i.e.
  
  - interviews/counsels students applying for aid; assists students in completing appropriate forms; assesses/verifies financial aid application files for eligibility for federal, state, and institutional financial aid and for compliance with federal/state financial aid regulations; determines types/amounts of aid to offer based on formulas and individual situations; awards aid packages to eligible students).
• Responsible for One of the following:
  • Coordinates the federal and state financial aid programs including all aspects of Direct Loan processing and certification, oversees the loan reconciliation process with the office of student accounts, Responsible for calculation, disbursement and reconciliation of the federal Pell grant program including monitoring all expenditures, preparing summary reports on program maintenance and expenditures, coordinate the electronic transmission of all loan and grant data through the Department of Education Common origination and disbursement system.
  • Implement the federal College Work Study Program by determining eligibility for CWS for academic year and summer work study programs; coordinate job placement on campus; supervise the processing of time sheets and evaluations, monitors expenditures of CWS funds for the work-study and community service programs.
  • Supervises all state financial aid programs including certification, disbursement and reconciliation.
• Assists with implementation of…