Employment at TMCC

Scholarship Technician

Position Description:Scholarship Technician
Department: Student Services
Opening date: February, 6 2012
Closing date: Until filled
Salary: Based on TMCC salary scale

Education and Experience:
Associate Degree with two years of office administration and program support experience. Strong general knowledge of computers and experience with Microsoft Office programs. Experience working in Native American community preferred. Familiar working with a digital camera and photography software preferred.

Summary of Work:
Provide scholarship information for the student body and help them in completing financial aid applications. Assist the Financial Aid Officer in completion of student award letters. Share the responsibility in greeting and assisting students and the public. Provides assistance to the Financial Aid Director in the administration of scholarship programs at TMCC.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Share the responsibility in greeting and assisting students and the public.
• Protect the confidentiality of students as provided by the College’s confidentiality policy.
• Assist students in accurately completing all financial aid applications for TMCC.
• Aid scholarship recipients in preparing materials to be sent to scholarship donor.
• Prepare Financial Aid award letters.
• Prepare student budget forms for scholarships.
• Evaluate Financial Aid applications for accuracy.
• Disburse Financial Aid for students to be ready to pick up at the Business Office.
• Assist Registrar with the student registration process.
• Assist the Registrar during high demand of add/drop cards.
• Assist the Student Services Staff with general office duties when needed.
• Correspond with students, parents and community regarding scholarship information.
• Searching for new scholarships by means of internet and other sources as well as maintain a database of current scholarships available to TMCC students.
• Switchboard duties on assigned day.
• Assist Student Support Services with general office duties when needed.
• Select scholarship committees and compile all of the information the committee may need to choose the scholarship recipient.
• Help students identify what must be submitted to funding agencies and monitor student compliance.
• Provide the webmaster of the TMCC website with updated scholarship links.
• Seek new students at orientation, business expo, etc.
• Assist the administration in data collection and information compilation necessary to encourage the development of additional scholarship funds.
• Identify students having significant unmet needs.
• Create priority list based on level of unmet need and motivation of student.
• Maintain appropriate documentation of activities and outcomes.
• Serve on institutional committees as assigned.
• Performs other position related duties as assigned.

How to apply:
Submit a letter of application, curriculum vita/resume and/or web application, a complete copy of current college transcripts with highest degree documented, and three (3) current letters of recommendation.  Work experience must be reasonably documented.  Applicants claiming Indian Preference/Veterans Preference must provide documentation.

Employment Application (276 KB PDF)

PLEASE NOTE: INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

Tracy Azure, Acting Comptroller
Telephone: (701)477.7809
Email: tazure@tm.edu

*Turtle Mountain Community College does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sex, age or disability. It is the general policy of the college to give preference to qualified American Indian applicants as allowed by the Indian preference provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended.
Persons who are at least ¼ degree and wish to claim Indian preference must submit a copy of their tribal Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood (CDIB) and Agency enrolled.