Job Description
Position Number: 001194
Department: Dean of Students (Adm)
Employment Type: Permanent - Full-time
Months Per Year: 12
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
The Director for Niner Finances is responsible for leading campus-wide financial literacy educational and programmatic efforts, directing one-one financial literacy counseling and coaching, providing oversight for professional staff and student peer educators.
- Provide strategic and tactical leadership to promote campus-wide financial literacy to undergraduate and graduate students.
- Define departmental goals and objectives, and coordinate execution and assessment of the same.
- Implement strategic and tactical initiatives to meet departmental, divisional, and university strategic plan expectations.
- Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with divisional and campus partners, including but not limited to: Student Affairs offices, Center for Graduate Life, University College, Undergraduate Education, Financial Aid, Niner Central, Business Affairs, Academic Affairs.
- Oversee campus-wide financial literacy initiatives.
- Lead collaborative initiatives with other financial services across campus.
- Supervise full-time, part-time, undergraduate, and graduate student employees.
- Manage annual budget in excess of $50,000
- Manage funding allocations from multiple funding sources – both internal and external – and operate within UNC Charlotte policies and donor stipulations.
- Maintain strategic partnerships with external funding companies, organizations, agencies, and constituents.
- Develop partnership opportunities in collaborations with University Development.
- Provide for-credit and not-for-credit financial literacy instruction.
- Oversee and facilitate the delivery of programs and services related to financial literacy to on-campus constituents.
- Oversee and facilitate the delivery of programs and services related to financial literacy to select off-campus constituents.
- Oversee and facilitate financial education strategies including financial literacy, budgeting, and money management.
- Provide oversight and strategic direction for all financial literacy initiatives.
- Oversee the creation, design, copy writing, and editing of all written, electronic, printed, and social media publications.
- Engage in on-going professional development by attending local, regional and national conferences.
Minimum Experience / Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Education, Financial counseling or related field.
- Three or more years of full-time, post-graduate, professional work experience in financial literacy/education or providing financial counseling/coaching experience in a higher education setting.
- Three or more years of full-time, post-graduate, professional work experience in a higher education working directly with students.
Preferred Education Skills and Experience:
- Master's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Education, Financial counseling or related field.
- Ability to work successfully with all UNC Charlotte students, faculty, and staff.
- Knowledge of the higher education setting with experience in student support, education, and advocacy
- Ability to manage all aspects of a comprehensive financial literacy program
- Knowledge of and experience with financial literacy issues, student services or financial aid pertaining to college students
- Ability to exercise good judgment and discretion in analyzing and resolving confidential and sensitive situations with minimal supervision
- Ability to build, develop and cultivate relations across campus with a variety of constituents and work effectively with diverse populations.
- Self-motivated, energetic, service minded and adept at solving problems
- Must possess strong communication (written/oral) as well as interpersonal skills
- Strong supervisory, coaching, and mentoring skills
- Ability to professionally and appropriately manage sensitive, private material, and information.
- Extensive knowledge of financial literacy and wellbeing standards, benchmarks, and program design methodologies
- Experience in counseling, behavioral finance, problem-solving and intervention strategies
- Strong public speaking, presenting, and facilitating skills
- Knowledge and understanding of applicable federal rules and regulations
- Ability to interpret and effectively communicate rules and regulations in both one-on-one sessions and group presentation
- Skill in developing and presenting credible financial literacy and wellbeing education to all audience
- Ability to prioritize multiple projects and work in an environment with regular interruption
- Highly organized and able to handle multiple projects and deadlines
- Able to communicate well and build rapport quickly with students, faculty, and staff
- Strong initiative to solve problems
- Able to work well with interdepartmental teams and initiatives
- Knowledge of various financial literacy and wellbeing online platforms and/or modules
About The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
UNC Charlotte is North Carolina's urban research institution. Our campus is located in the piedmont of North Carolina, just two hours from the mountains and three hours from the Atlantic Ocean. A large public university with a small college feel, more than 27,200 students consider UNC Charlotte’s 1,000-acre campus their home away from home.
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