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Director, Financial Aid

United States, Richardson Employment contract · Job Posted July 03, 2026
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Director, Financial Aid at American Career College. As an associate for a certified Great Place to Work, you will join a collaborative, student-centric culture valuing academic integrity, mutual respect, student learning, service, responsiveness, innovation, diversity, and stewardship. You will guide students to do more than change their own lives – you will help change the lives of every patient they care for throughout their career.

Job Responsibility

  • Cultivating positive, supportive relationships within the Financial Aid team, including the Student Account Specialists
  • Working closely with lending institutions, guarantee agencies, and regulatory entities as well as building strong working relationships between other campus departments and university administration (UA)
  • Engaging, motivating, and building an effective team
  • Reacting and adjusting quickly to change and be able to develop practical ideas for dealing with issues while collaborating in a customer-focused manner with other campus departments like Admissions, Registrar and Student Affairs
  • Actively serving as a member of the campus management team, and the overall University financial aid leadership team. In addition, this role must work collaboratively with the UA team responsible for repacks to ensure all complex or escalated student issues are resolved
  • Overseeing the campus Student Account function. This includes collections on student payment plans, providing students with documentation for tuition reimbursement, VA (Veterans Affairs) billing and providing external partners student billing statements for repayment
  • Monitoring enrollment and retention activities and goals and evaluates key indicators to forecast upcoming work volume and necessary resources, establishes plans to meet those needs, and communicates same to campus Executive Director and VP, Student Financial Services to obtain necessary approvals and successful execution of plans

Requirements

  • 10 years customer service
  • 7 years financial aid experience
  • 5 years financial aid focused leadership experience
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited College or University

What we offer

  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • flexible spending accounts
  • 401(k) match
  • paid time off
  • holidays
  • parental leave
  • tuition reimbursement
  • adoption assistance
  • health savings accounts
  • employee discounts
  • commuter benefits
  • company paid life
  • AD&D
  • LTD insurance

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