Senior Associate Director of Financial Aid, Systems Position Available In Vernon, Louisiana

Senior Associate Director of Financial Aid, Systems
California State University, Fullerton, United States
about 12 hours ago

Location:

Fullerton, LOUISIANA

Deadline:

03 Apr 2025
It is an exciting time to join Cal State Fullerton as we are an in demand comprehensive University that is driven to shape the future of education and foster a vibrant community of diverse students, faculty, staff, and administrators who uphold values of inclusive excellence, free speech, and an environment free from discrimination. We are continuously seeking individuals from various career disciplines that share the University’s mission and core values. We warmly welcome you to consider joining the Titan Community where minds expand and opportunities flourish. About the

Position:

The Office of Financial Aid is available to remove the cost of barriers that may prevent individuals from pursuing their educational goals. We seek an exceptional individual to join our team as the Senior Associate Director of Financial Aid; Systems (Administrator II). The ideal candidate in this role should have a positive attitude, an active, energetic mind, and a leadership style that is characterized by highly ethical practices and a commitment to diversity, openness, flexibility, integrity, and kindness.
The Senior Associate Director of Financial Aid; Systems, reports to the Director of Financial Aid and is responsible for expert direction, problem solving, and specifications for the internal systems staff, and Information Technology systems in the design, development, operation and maintenance of the automated management systems used to support the mission of the Office of Financial Aid. The overall responsibility of this position is to ensure the accurate and timely processing, delivery, reconciliation, and reporting to various agencies of $340 million in student aid to the information and data processing systems. These systems include the PeopleSoft Student Administration system, and interfaces to other associated systems such as the Electronic Loan Management system, the California WebGrants system, the Department of Education’s Common Origination and Disbursement system, Student Aid Internet Gateway, Central Processing System (CPS) Online, and the National Student Loan Data Center. The Senior Associate Director of Financial Aid; Systems is also responsible for project coordination, development, management, and overseeing the testing of software including both local and Chancellor’s Office centralized modifications (CMS) to meet new initiatives and business processes designed to improve or augment the delivery of financial aid. The Senior Associate Director of Financial Aid; Systems has the primary responsibility for the analysis of business processes and their effective application in an automated environment. The Senior Associate Director of Financial Aid; Systems is the functional lead in maintaining and enhancing functionality of the financial aid module of the Oracle Student Administration system by providing or supervising production support as needed (including support for reporting technologies, scheduling of production jobs, fund management simulations, security administration coordination, and quality assurance monitoring) to ensure the continued efficient operation of automated systems. The functional lead also plays a pivotal role in planning and directing upgrades and the implementation of new software functionality, including online functionalities offered through the university’s web portal. The primary area of accountability of this position is in the development of automated solutions to ensure the mission of the office and the university are achieved. This includes the development and administration of policies designed to support a strategic approach to systems management. A secondary area of accountability is the supervision of the internal systems staff to ensure the reliable operation of all production systems, both online and batch, and supervision of the Direct Loan programs and alternative loan staff. Also, provides supervision to the Assistant Director of State Grant programs and the Pell Grant program. Other areas include analysis of new programs or program modifications and effective cooperation with accounting and student records personnel to ensure that fiscal integrity and compliance with regulations are maintained. The Senior Associate Director of Financial Aid; Systems also supports various Federal and State reporting tasks, including the FISAP (Fiscal Operations Report and Application to Participate) Report and the State Chancellor Office’s Financial Aid Database (FADB) report. Other duties as assigned.