Customer Service Specialist - Financial Aid

Customer Service Specialist - Financial Aid

Arizona State University

EC Specialists

Campus: Tempe

100398BR

Job Description

The Enterprise Technology (ET) Experience Center is seeking a Customer Service Specialist - Financial Aid. This position serves as the primary contact for customer concerns/inquiries on such subjects as financial aid eligibility, processing requirements, student business services policies and procedures, balance inquiries and issues related to the overall financial services profile of the student at ASU, while communicating to both external and internal customers in a professional manner.

As with everyone in the ET, culture and communications are core responsibilities in this role. With an increased focus on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, this position strives to embody and advance our ET Positive Core. 

What’s in it for you:

Arizona State University offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes valuable employee benefits to enhance the total compensation of its staff. This package includes: (Click here to explore options.)

• Opportunity to obtain Certifications in Business Analytics, Cybersecurity, Google IT, and Data Analytics
• ASU Tuition Reduction Program for staff members, their spouses, and dependents, available on day one.
• Low-cost health, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits available as early as first pay period and within 30 calendar days of hire.
• Retirement program designed to promote long-term savings and provide income upon retirement.
• Paid time for volunteer and professional development.
• Wellness program for preventative health education and screenings. 
• Disability and leave program for income protection. 
• Employee assistance for free and confidential behavioral health services.

Flexible work options may be available after successfully completing the initial 60-day training period. 

• Alternative work schedules can include four, 10-hour workdays in a workweek; a nine-day, 80-hour schedule over two workweeks for exempt employees only; and staggered start and stop times. 
• Hybrid work is an arrangement where employees spend a minimum of 60% of their regular workweek at their primary ASU work location. Dean or vice president-level approval is required.

Days and Schedules: We are currently hiring for multiple shifts with various start times between 6am and 1pm.

*Shift schedule will be determined at the time of hire and will be based on availability.

Salary Range

$20.00 per hour

Close Date

16-April-2024 is the initial close date. Applications will continue to be accepted and reviewed every two weeks until the search is closed.

Essential Duties

• Resolves basic issues, general concerns and inquiries through phone, email and chat regarding Financial Aid and Scholarship Services (FASS), and Student Business Services (SBS) processes and policies.
• Assists with self-service activities to ensure customer comprehension and satisfaction regarding FASS and SBS questions, policies and procedures.
• Responds promptly to all contact inquiries, assessing and addressing their needs with empathy and efficiency.
• Escalates complex issues as necessary, ensuring all concerns are directed to the appropriate channels for resolution, thereby maintaining high standards of service and support.
• Participates in, and contributes to, scheduled and ad hoc training in order to improve university policy and processes.
• Establishes trust through commitment to ASU and student success and adherence to policies and procedures.
• Delivers unparalleled personalized customer service by attentively addressing individual needs and preferences, ensuring each interaction is tailored to exceed expectations and leave a lasting positive impression.
• Understands and satisfies customer needs and capitalizes on opportunities to improve customer service and satisfaction.
• Utilizes a variety of resources to thoroughly research questions and promptly respond to customer inquiries with accuracy and efficiency, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of their needs is met
• Documents customer interactions with attention to detail, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
• Inputs data and ensures the accuracy of all information entered into the system.
• Takes responsibility for fostering culture, advancing our values, and championing engagement in all its forms -- collaborating across our teams as well as participating in ET/ASU events and programs.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Demonstrates commitment to valuing diversity and contributing to an inclusive working and learning environment.

Minimum Qualifications

One-two years’ experience in a customer service environment and experience in a frontline customer service environment OR any equivalent combination of experience and/or education from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Desired Qualifications

• Evidece of degree work or certification work in a closely related field.
• Experience in a financial aid customer service environment.
• Experience answering high volume customer service inquiries from students of diverse backgrounds via telephone, email, and/or chat.
• Experience in logging customer information into a call tracking system.
• Demonstrated knowledge of financial aid policies and procedures.
• Demonstrated knowledge of student business services policies and procedures.
• Experience using Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience in leading by example in communicating, participating and encouraging support of the institution’s sustainability programs.
• Ability to model empathy, compassion and emotional intelligence.
• Experience in a values-led organization, emphasizing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
• Experience in helping foster a safe psychological space for all teammates where everyone can thrive.

Working Environment

Activities are performed in an environmentally controlled office setting subject to extended periods of sitting, standing and walking; frequent physical demands may include stooping, bending and reaching.

Department Statement

Enterprise Technology (ET) embraces its role as both an enabler and catalyst for advancing the vision and work of the New American University. We are a values-driven organization. Our commitments are reflected in all of the work we do in pursuit of operational excellence, the experience and delight of our community, and our strategic and innovation initiatives. Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States.

Join the team that sparks human-centered innovation.

ET is a rapidly reconfigurable and entrepreneurial organization at ASU that prioritizes and executes to meet the needs of our community of learners, faculty, researchers, and staff. Our work emphasizes autonomy, flexibility, and distributed decision-making to leverage the strengths of individuals. Together, we embrace a culture that nurtures, engages and embraces diverse voices with a shared lens of positive community impact and expanded opportunities for collaboration.

Why join us?

Mission oriented. Everything we do is to advance ASU’s charter -- measuring who we include and how they succeed. We are staunch champions of learner success and put people first.

Flexibility. Our hybrid work environment prioritizes personal autonomy and trust around how work gets done. 

Culture forward. We embrace a Positive Core culture: Belonging, Relational, Authentic, Visionary and Empowered. The ET fabric weaves together diversity, equity and inclusion applied in our daily work and interactions. 

Scale of impact. Our work changes the world. With 180k+ learners, faculty, researchers and staff, working with ET means you have the capacity to improve many lives and entire communities.

World-class, low cost education. Our professional development is built in! ET encourages staff to seek additional certificates and degrees via ASU’s top ranked programs with major tuition breaks.

Exposure to industry giants. ET partners with Amazon, Apple, Cox, Verizon, Salesforce, Alteryx and a diversity of technology companies to enhance our innovations and deepen their impact.

ASU is a diverse enterprise with a wide variety of work and learning modes, locations and a commitment to sustainability, innovation, and employee work-life balance. We are determined to maintain our position as an employer of choice in a competitive labor market. 

Flexible work options may be available after successfully completing the initial 60-day training period. 

• Alternative work schedules can include four, 10-hour workdays in a workweek; a nine-day, 80-hour schedule over two workweeks for exempt employees only; and staggered start and stop times.
• Hybrid work is an arrangement where employees spend a minimum of 60% of their regular workweek at their primary ASU work location. Dean or vice president-level approval is required.

ASU Statement

Arizona State University is a new model for American higher education, an unprecedented combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial energy and broad access. This New American University is a single, unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and environmental health of the communities it serves. Its research is inspired by real world application blurring the boundaries that traditionally separate academic disciplines. ASU serves more than 100,000 students in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, the nation's fifth largest city. ASU champions intellectual and cultural diversity, and welcomes students from all fifty states and more than one hundred nations across the globe.

ASU is a tobacco-free university. For details visit https://wellness.asu.edu/explore-wellness/body/alcohol-and-drugs/tobacco

Arizona State University is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.

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ASU conducts pre-employment screening which may include verification of work history, academic credentials, licenses, and certifications.

Background Check Statement

ASU conducts pre-employment screening for all positions which includes a criminal background check, verification of work history, academic credentials, licenses, and certifications. Employment is contingent upon successful passing of the background check.

Fingerprint Check Statement

This position is considered safety/security sensitive and will include a fingerprint check. Employment is contingent upon successful passing of the fingerprint check.

Instructions to Apply

Application deadline is 3:00PM Arizona time on the date indicated.

Please include all employment information in month/year format (e.g., 6/88 to 8/94), job title, job duties and name of employer for each position.

Resume should clearly illustrate how prior knowledge and experience meets the Minimum and Desired qualifications of this position.

ASU does not pay for travel expenses associated with interviews, unless otherwise indicated.

Only electronic applications are accepted for this position.

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