What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Aid Assistant position at Bethel University?
Bethel University has an immediate opening for a Financial Aid Assistant to join our Financial Aid team.
While demonstrating understanding and sensitivity to the needs of all students, the Financial Aid Assistant is responsible for overseeing processes related to document management, data entry, and student financial aid files as well as responding to questions related to financial aid from students and families. This person will also provide administrative support to the department and the Director.
Essential Job Functions:
- Oversee processing of documents needed to complete students' financial aid files, including correspondence with students, financial aid data entry, and developing financial requests for funds disbursement
- Counsel students and parents on financial aid options, choices, and processes
- Assist with producing written correspondence and preparing mailings related to financial aid packaging
- Answer phones for the financial aid office and monitor the general financial aid email inbox
- Coordinate the processes for loan entrance and exit counseling, as well as administer all loan disbursement notifications
- Provide all follow-up regarding verification processes
- Assist with the supervision and daily task distribution of student employee(s)
- Prepare reports and documents for freshman registration as well as for meetings with students and families about financial aid options
- Review and update office documents and procedures as needed
- Assist in maintaining the financial aid office master calendar for processing and communication
- Assist in developing and planning FAFSA events on campus
About Bethel University
The mission of Bethel University, affiliated with the Missionary Church denomination, is to be a community of learners building lives of commitment for leadership in the Church and world. Bethel's liberating academic programs challenge the mind, enlarge the vision, and equip the whole person for lifelong service.
Launched in 1947, Bethel is urban situated in the northern Indiana region hosting 250,000 residents, seven colleges (including Notre Dame), the 2nd largest shopping district in the state of Indiana, 15,000 businesses, 50 parks, and beautiful riverwalk developments in South Bend and Mishawaka. Resort venues on Lake Michigan are 45 minutes away. The university community is composed of about 1,500 traditional and adult/graduate students from 35 states, 90 students born outside the United States, and 225 full-time employees. Bethel also hosts more than 8,000 guests annually to arts productions, 25,000 annually in conference services, and many thousands of community members in support of 40 national athletic championships.
Bethel's 20,000 alumni occupy 49 states and 64 world areas and enjoy a medical school acceptance rate double the national average, 100% job placement rate in Nursing whose program was ranked No. 7 in the United States, a Top 4% finish nationally in competitive math performance tests, and 100% pass rate every year on the national performance standard for a unique academic major in American Sign Language.
For more information visit our website at www.bethelunviersity.edu
Bethel University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, sex, disability, national or ethnic origin in employment opportunities, in keeping with applicable state and federal laws. In keeping with the mission of the institution, Bethel University seeks applicants with a strong commitment to the values and lifestyle of evangelical Christianity and who profess a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. As a Christian institution, we require faculty and staff to adhere to the University's Lifestyle Covenant and to enforce a religiously based statement of responsibilities for all University employees. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Bethel University, as an educational institution operating under the auspices of the Missionary Church, reserves the right to prefer employees on the basis of religion (Title VII, Sections 702-703, United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended).
