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Reporting directly to the Vice President, Financial Aid, in a multi-faceted, multi-location academic and corporate setting, the Director, Default Management is responsible for managing the default management function that includes, but is not limited to: managing cohort default prevention and reporting for both American Career College and West Coast University, supervising, training, and motivating the Default Management staff to provide excellent customer service to student loan borrowers, collaborating with campus Financial Aid Directors to provide loan counseling oversight, training, and guidance to campus financial aid staff, coordinating loan entrance and exit counseling workshops at all campuses, maintaining reports of students entering repayment and delinquency for appropriate outreach, managing outreach assignments to default management specialists, and developing and maintaining relationships with loan servicers to facilitate resolution of student or data problems.
Job Responsibility:
Performs all duties of Default Management Specialists
Provides daily oversight and supervision of Default Management Specialists and Default Management Supervisor
Prepares performance reviews, communicates goals, and provides appropriate feedback on performance
Assists with employee recruitment and hiring
Provides training on student loan borrowing, counseling, and repayment, and collections for new and existing Default Management Specialists and campus financial aid staff
Accesses reports from the National Student Loan Data System, private lenders, DOE servicers, and Borrower Connect to monitor borrowers in repayment and delinquencies
Reviews, analyzes and researches data and resolves errors appropriately
Maintains detailed records of borrowers and outreach efforts for both American Career College and West Coast University borrowers
Monitors performance of Default Management Specialists to ensure that outreach is appropriate, effective, and in compliance with federal, state, and institutional rules and regulations
Assigns, monitors and reviews time spent on callings, e-mails, internet social networking by staff
Ensures tasks delegated are completed accurately and in timely fashion, and are appropriately documented in CampusVue
Trains campus Financial Literacy staff on student loan entrance counseling presentations, graduate exit counseling presentations, and other financial outreach to student borrowers
Develops loan counseling materials and PowerPoint presentations for campuses
Schedules graduate exit counseling workshops at each campus and maintains calendar of new student orientations and graduate workshops for all campus locations
Ensures that counseling sessions are provided within 30 days of graduation date to all upcoming grads
Monitors Experian, Accurint, and Borrower Connect billing for accuracy and appropriate allocation and submission to Accounting
Performs other duties as assigned
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree from an Accredited University or College
Cannot be in default on a federal loan or owe repayment of a federal grant
Valid California Driver's License required
Five to seven years of default management or collections experience
Two years supervisory or managerial experience
Experience with MS Office, with expertise in MS Excel required
Excellent analytical and organizational skills
Ability to analyze financial data and prepare financial reports, statements, and projections
Nice to have:
5+ years' experience as a default management specialist
5+ years of management experience
Bilingual English/Spanish
Thorough knowledge of federal Title IV student loan programs preferred