What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Registrar position at Meredith College?
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The Associate Registrar supports the mission of the Office of the Registrar. This Office ensures adherence to academic policy, preserving academic integrity and safeguarding academic records while providing administrative and academic services to Meredith students, faculty, staff, and alumnae. The office is responsible for scheduling classes, registration for courses, academic records, degree audit, leave of absences and withdrawals, Veteran's Affairs, certifying graduation requirements, and issuing official transcripts.
Duties
The Associate Registrar supports the mission of the Office of the Registrar. This Office ensures adherence to academic policy, preserving academic integrity and safeguarding academic records while providing administrative and academic services to Meredith students, faculty, staff, and alumnae. The office is responsible for scheduling classes, registration for courses, academic records, degree audit, leave of absences and withdrawals, Veteran's Affairs, certifying graduation requirements, and issuing official transcripts.
Duties
- Manage registration procedures for all aspects of registration for standard semesters and study abroad
- Manage the grading process
- Manage procedures for the maintenance of academic records in Colleague and OnBase
- Responsible for transfer credit process and verifying the accuracy of the equivalency data for transfer credit and a turnaround time of less than 48 hours from the time of receipt
- Respond to general requests for student information using Informer and other software appropriate
- Develop reports upon request for department heads, scholarships, and other constituents with a need to know
- Manage waitlist process
- Manage Dean's list process
- Serve as the institution VA Student Certifying Official
- Manage the Incomplete forms process
- Submit enrollment and graduation reports to the National Student Clearinghouse
- Other duties as necessary for the office
- Bachelor's degree required, Master's degree preferred
- Minimum of five years' experience working in an educational environment or equivalent administrative setting; demonstrated competency to serve in an administrative capacity; prior experience working in a student records office and experience with applicable laws/regulations e.g. FERPA is preferred.
- Excellent verbal and written skills required.
- Ability to communicate with faculty, staff, parents, and students.
- Ability to explain clearly academic policy.
- Ability to compute GPA.
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardizations exist.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Direct experience in student records management.
- Knowledge of Colleague by Ellucian or similar SIS.
- Experience with query building and report writing
- Experience with development and implementation of on-line systems, strong personal computer skills, and technology application skills.
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