About
The Los Rios Community College District is the second-largest, two-year public college district in California, serving approximately 75,000 students in the greater Sacramento region. The District's 2,400 square mile service area includes Sacramento and El Dorado counties and parts of Yolo, Placer, and Solano counties and is comprised of four uniquely diverse colleges - American River, Cosumnes River, Folsom Lake, and Sacramento City colleges. In addition to each college's main campus, the District offers educational centers in Placerville, Davis, West Sacramento, Elk Grove, Natomas, and Rancho Cordova.

The Los Rios District Office is centrally located in the heart of the Sacramento valley. The growing Capital Region has strong communities and emergent arts and dining scenes, and is nearby some of the most celebrated tourist destinations in the country - Lake Tahoe, Napa Valley, and San Francisco. The Sacramento area is a great place to live and work.

Strengths
The District has approximately 6,000 employees throughout our four colleges and District Office complex. The District Office is centrally located between all four colleges and provides welcoming, inclusive, and equitable environments for Los Rios students, employees, and our community partners. Our departments strive for the highest quality in all programs, services, and activities, and are focused on advancing the learning of our diverse student population through improved academic and social outcomes.

Our Vision
Our Colleges offer equity-minded, academically rigorous, student success centered education. Our objective is to help our students successfully achieve their academic goals, whether they want to transfer to a four-year college or university, earn an associate degree, or obtain one of more than 100 certificates in high demand career fields.

Under minimal oversight, incumbents perform a variety of complex tasks requiring more extensive knowledge of policies, rules and procedures pertaining to financial aid.

For a detailed job description for this Los Rios Classified Employees Association (White Collar) posting .

This position will be located at American River College Financial Aid Office and a total of two candidates will be selected for this position.

American River College is committed to employees:

Los Rios Community College District offers competitive salaries and a very comprehensive employee benefits package to include medical insurance, CalPERS retirement, and opportunities for additional insurance and financial investments.

Full-time, twelve-month employees receive 18 days of annual paid holidays, 15 days' vacation yearly (with increases after 5 & 10 years), and 8 hours of sick leave per month. Los Rios also offers professional development opportunities with the district and financial support and/or paid time off to complete external academic studies. You are eligible for the aforementioned benefits as a regular employee with a permanent assignment of 0.50 FTE or greater. To calculate this position's FTE, take the number of hours per week divided by 40, to get the percentage of hours worked. Then take the number of months worked divided by 12, to get the percentage of work year. Then take the percentage of hours worked multiplied by the percentage of months worked to get the position's FTE (e.g., a position that is 30 hours per week with a work year of 10 months: 30/40 = 0.75; 10/12 = 0.8333; 0.75 * 0.8333 = 0.625 FTE). For the full LRCEA contract agreement details .

Supplies information and advice to students seeking financial aid, and directs applicants to appropriate staff after reviewing their needs; assists students in determining their budgets; helps students fill out financial aid applications, and checks applications for completeness; makes adjustments to monetary amounts during awards process; provides applications for outside scholarships, and reviews progress; generates reports from database using financial aid software or similar system to run needs analysis and package student financial aid; sets up and maintains individual student records; composes correspondence, forms and reports; oversees the work of temporary classified staff; completes service work requests, requisitions, purchase orders, maintenance and supply requisitions, and related documents; processes receipts for student loan checks and assists at the front counter; explains forms of financial assistance available to students; participates in in-reach and outreach student events; serve as liaison to other student services departments; conducts presentations on financial aid processes; advises students seeking financial aid; issues and explains verification forms and supportive documents; corresponds with students to obtain documentation; completes student loan applications, student time sheets and other related documents; reviews and processes financial aid awards for students; records financial transactions and other account information to update and maintain accounting records; reviews and confirms students' satisfactory progress; performs audits on student eligibility and takes appropriate action; serves as lead to other financial aid clerks; advertises and updates information on outside scholarships; composes award information, memorandums and reports. Performs related duties as required.

10:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Monday - Thursday; and
8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Friday

EXPERIENCE: Three years of clerical experience related to the duties of the position.

EDUCATION: One year of college course work at an accredited institution may be substituted for one year of the required experience.

Have an equity-minded focus, responsiveness, and sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, including those with physical or learning disabilities as it relates to differences in learning styles; and successfully foster and support an inclusive educational and employment environment.

(Experience Requirement: One year of experience is equal to 12 months of experience at 40 hours per week. Applicable part-time experience will be converted to the full-time equivalent for purposes of meeting the experience requirement. Education Requirement: One year of education is equal to 30 semester units.)

Education must be from an accredited institution.

Do not submit additional materials that are not requested.

Please visit our for complete information on how to apply online with our District. If you need assistance with any phase of the application process, please call (916) 568-3112 during regular business hours 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. PST, Monday through Friday.

After hour inquiries should be emailed to HR@losrios.edu. Submission of applications are by 11:59 p.m., of the posting closing date.

Offers of employment are contingent upon the successful clearance from a criminal background check and proof of identity and eligibility to work in the United States prior to the first day of work. Tuberculosis (TB) risk assessment and Certificate of Completion must be obtained within 15 days from the start of employment. The District may select additional qualified candidates should unexpected vacancies or needs occur. When education is a requirement for the position, official academic transcripts from the accredited institution must be submitted within 60 days of hire.

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