Student Support Specialist - Baltimore, United States - Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
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Baltimore, United States

3 weeks ago

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Description

This position will initially support and report directly to the University Director of Student Enrollment Support, with transition to report directly to a Student Support Supervisor on the Director's team.

As the university develops an integrated student service shared services organization (SSO), the duties of this position will include supporting student accounts, financial aid and registration related questions and concerns throughout the university.


Specific Duties & Responsibilities

  • Serve as the first point of contact for student enrollment services, specifically financial aid, registration, and student accounts, to the university community in a new shared services organization.
  • Provide exceptional customer service to all Johns Hopkins University constituents including students, internal staff and faculty, external stakeholders, parents, sponsors (third party payers), and all parties in contact with the university.
  • Provide general information to solve issues related to financial aid, registration, and student accounts.
  • Liaise with the contracted call center staff and university operational staff in support of frontline issues and troubleshooting.
  • Manage the student case management queues in the Salesforce database to ensure timely triage, escalation, resolution and processing of incoming cases.
  • Counsel, advise, investigate, problemsolve, and resolve issues from current and former students, parents, faculty, staff, sponsors and other third parties.
  • Explain financial aid packages and eligibility for institutional and federal aid awards and give helpful instructions on using financial aid selfservice tools to students and parents.
  • Provide payment details, account information and helpful instructions on using student accounts selfservice tools to students and parents.
  • Provide registration details and give helpful instructions on using registration selfservice tools to students and parents.
  • Identify to management potential inefficiencies to promote operational excellence and coordinate process improvements of service to students and the university community.
  • Participate in professional development and training opportunities to stay abreast of institutional, federal, and other regulations.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Special Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

  • Ability to build relationships across departments.
  • Demonstrated technical skills utilizing a range of information databases.
  • Great listening skills.
  • Detailoriented.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with diverse populations.
  • Excellent organizational skills with an ability to prioritize, and work on multiple projects and tasks simultaneously, often with many interruptions.
  • Willingness to commit to exceeding expectations and deliver the highest level of customer service.
  • Selfmotivated, proactive, friendly, courteous and collaborative.
  • Take pride in every aspect of work and perform it with energy and enthusiasm.
  • Be a strong team player with a commitment to continuous learning.
  • Proficiency in desktop computing using MS Office (Outlooks, Word, Excel) and web interfaces on a Windows platform.
  • Experience with Student Information System (SIS), PowerFAIDS, OnBase, Salesforce and other related information management databases would be beneficial.

Minimum Qualifications

  • High School Diploma/GED required.
  • A minimum of three years of strong customer service experience.
  • Additional education may substitute for required experience to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree highly preferred.
  • Experience with service desk, help desk, call center or comparable frontline service a plus.
  • Experience with accounts receivable and/or an accounting background a plus.
  • Experience with customer relationship management software a plus.
  • Experience working in a university setting, particularly student services, preferred.

Classified Title:
Student Support Specialist


Role/Level/Range:
ATO 37.5/03/OE

Starting Salary Range:
$ $33.50 HRLY ($52,500 targeted; Commensurate with experience)

Employee group:
Full Time

Schedule:
Monday - Friday 8:30am - 5:00pm

Exempt Status:
Non-Exempt


Location:
Hybrid/Homewood Campus


Department name:
SEAM Student Support


Personnel area:
University Student Services
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