Description
Plans and directs the awarding of financial aid funds through scholarships, grants-in-aid, loans and student employment programs. Monitors compliance with existing federal regulations and analyzes policy, procedural, and fiscal impact of changes in federal programs. Represents the financial aid function internally and externally via written materials, oral presentations, interviews with the media. Manages office operations and staff activities, typically undergraduate only. Education and Experience: Bachelor degree and 8 or more years related experience. Expertise in such areas as management and federal aid legislation and regulations. The primary duty of employees in this classification is the management of a customarily recognized department or subdivision, including the supervision of three or more full-time equivalent employees every week. Direction is over a permanent status-continuing function, not a collection of employees assigned to complete a project. Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training of employees; setting and adjusting their rates of pay and hours of work; planning and directing their work; appraising their productivity and efficiency for the purpose of recommending promotions or other changes in their status; handling their complaints and grievances and disciplining them when necessary. Management responsibilities include the authority to hire, fire, or promote assigned employees or make recommendations that are given particular weight. Employees have impact on budgeting, controlling costs, planning, scheduling, and procedural change. Under FLSA, this is the exempt job classification for this title. Incumbents in this position must meet the full criteria for exempt status: salary level, salary basis, and duties tests.