Financial Aid Specialist

Position Information

Title: Financial Aid Specialist

Position Type: Professional Tech Full Time

College: Front Range Community College

Division: Enrollment Management and Student Affairs

Department: FRCC Financial Aid

Campus: Westminster Campus

Location: Westminster, Colorado

Salary Range: $52,517 - $55,143 annually

With three campuses along Colorado’s Front Range, FRCC is the state’s largest community college. We enroll close to 28,000 students annually from our diverse service area, which offers a variety of cultural and recreational activities.

Each year approximately 5,000 FRCC students transfer to four-year universities and FRCC offers more than 36 career training programs that prepare students for immediate employment and rewarding careers. Last year, more than 5,000 high school students took concurrent enrollment classes with us, earning college credit without having to pay college tuition. And we were recently ranked as one of the “Top Online Colleges” in the country by Newsweek.

One of FRCC’s main goals is to offer educational excellence for everyone. The college’s strong commitment to student success means we start by creating an inclusive and equitable environment—one where both students and employees feel they belong and are supported. FRCC’s focus on diversity, equity and inclusion is woven into the fabric of our college conversations and decision-making processes. We are actively seeking to hire a workforce that reflects the diversity of our student body.

FRCC employees and leaders work hard to create a culture of collaboration, innovation and pride. We’re looking to hire people who share these values—along with our commitment to student success, equity and excellence.

Reporting directly to the Associate Director for Financial Aid Operations, the Financial Aid Specialist position reviews and processes financial aid applications to help students achieve their educational goals while meeting the compliance requirements of the college. The Financial Aid Specialist will implement Front Range Community College’s student focused culture by supporting the Financial Aid department operations and awarding federal, state, private and institutional funds.

The position will maintain reporting, programming, and processing schedules pertinent to all automated systems while troubleshooting in the student information system and other systems as necessary. This position will support quality control of financial aid data, both input and output, from the student information system with a commitment to deliver consistent and high-quality support to students.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for continuous improvement of programs, services, and operations that enhance student experience with Financial Aid. The Financial Aid Specialist is expected to stay up to date with all new federal, state and institutional regulations, guidelines, policies and procedures.

This position does have the opportunity to work remotely occasionally but does require a strong on-campus presence and may require occasional travel to all three FRCC campuses.

Please note:

You need to be a Colorado resident on your first day of employment. Front Range Community College is an E-Verify employer.

• Review FAFSA or other aid application data, student submitted documentation, and other financial aid related files to determine the eligibility for federal, state, institutional and private aid programs.
• Work with Financial Aid Service Advisors to ensure the quality and acceptability of documents and student information.
• Assist with the coordination of scheduling and running of reports, data input and output, maintaining required documentation in student information systems, US Department of Education systems, and other systems used.
• Analyze, review and process a variety of daily, weekly, and by term reports for accuracy, compliance and equity.
• Process Return to Title IV fund calculations.
• Certify, originate and coordinate private loans.
• Review satisfactory academic appeals.
• Work with other schools to resolve transfer monitoring or potential over payment issues.
• Provide support for college wide events,…