Job Description
Job Description
POSITION: Associate Director of Financial Aid
REPORTS TO: Director of Financial Aid
STATUS: Full-time, Exempt
RANGE: $85,000 – $95,000
Founded in 1901, Brooklyn Law School is a distinguished, independent law school located in Downtown Brooklyn, New York. The Law School is searching for an Associate Director of Financial Aid to join our team. The Law School’s size, vibrant employee and student population, and commitment to training the next generation of lawyers and promoting social justice, will offer a candidate the opportunity to develop and diversify practical skills and participate firsthand in operating a successful educational institution.
Reporting to the Director of Financial Aid, the Associate Director of Financial Aid will play a role in managing financial aid operations, ensuring compliance with federal regulations, and optimizing scholarship awarding processes. This role plays a crucial part in supporting student access to education through effective financial aid management.
Responsibilities include:
- Manage the Office of Financial Aid, including a team of two employees in the absence of the Director of Financial Aid.
- Represent the Office of Financial Aid in Administrative meetings in the absence of the Director of Financial Aid.
- Oversee and facilitate the FWS/Public Service Grants program.
- Manage FWS/Public Service Grants ensuring compliance with all regulations in collaboration with the Director of Financial Aid.
- Build relationships with Career Services and Public Interest Law Center to promote FWS/PSG employment opportunities.
- Oversee the BLS LRAP Program.
- Manage the awarding of the Yellow Ribbon program recipients in collaboration with Registrar.
- Conduct Loan repayment and debt management workshops in partnership with AccessLex.
- Manage outside scholarships, including building partnerships with AccessLex.
- Oversee update of BLS Connect Financial Aid PSG/FWS, Yellow Ribbon and AccessLex pages.
- Manage the weekly Financial Aid disbursement process to ensure awards are reconciled with DOE/COD SAS Report.
- Oversee Direct Loan Default Management program in collaboration with the Director of Financial Aid and Specialist.
- Coordinate and facilitate financial aid eligibility for Study Abroad Programs, Exchange, Dual Degree, and consortium agreements.
- Collaborate and coordinate with the Director of Financial Aid in providing request for information during independent annual audits or DOE audits.
Required:
- A bachelor’s degree is required.
- At least 5 years of experience in financial aid administration, ideally at the graduate or professional level within an educational institution.
- Familiarity with Department of Education regulations and financial aid compliance.
- Familiarity with budgeting and reporting to federal, state, and accrediting authorities.
- Familiarity with campus student information systems, Colleague is preferred.
- Strong communication, customer service, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Must be an eager learner, extremely detail-oriented, accurate, and organized.
- Proficiency in using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook).
Preferred:
- Experience in a higher education setting is preferred.
- Knowledge of admissions processes and procedures is preferred.
Remote capabilities:
- This position is eligible for a hybrid schedule.
Travel:
- Some travel may be required.
Brooklyn Law School has an excellent benefits package that includes sick, personal and vacation paid time off, a generous retirement plan, dependent tuition scholarship Pre K- undergraduate college and additional summer Friday PTO.
Affirmative Action/EEO statement
It is the policy of Brooklyn Law School to be impartial in the treatment of all employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination as to race, creed, religion, color, natural origin, citizenship status, gender, age, veteran status, disability, marital status, union affiliation, political affiliation, sexual orientation or preferences or any other legal protected status.