Job Details
Department: Admissions and Records
General Statement of Job
The Residency Specialist evaluates, determines and processes student residency status for tuition purposes in accordance with Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) rules and South Texas College policies. This role reviews admissions applications, core residency questionnaires and complex legal or financial documentation to accurately determine residency status and appropriate tuition rates. This role ensures student records compliance and guides students through the residency…
reclassification process.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
Essential Functions:
- Reviews and evaluates information to determine the residency status of all students.
- Assists international students with providing the proper documentation required for admissions.
- Registers international students for classes.
- Monitors the status of international students to determine if they are in compliance each semester.
- Attends state and local conferences to stay abreast of current laws and regulations and receive updated information.
- Studies and interprets the current state laws and regulations regarding residency in Texas.
- Studies and interprets the current federal laws and regulations regarding student visas.
- Communicates and explains policies, procedures and requirements regarding Texas residency and admission of international students.
- Verifies data by running reports.
- Makes recommendations to the Director for system and program improvement within the department.
- Assists Coordinator of Admissions with daily operations and coordination of staff.
- Serves as Campus Security Authority.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Required Education and Experience
- Bachelor's Degree required.
- At least six (6) months of experience related to the specified duties and responsibilities preferred.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to complete all tasks with accuracy and clarity with minimal supervision.
- Excellent detail-oriented skills.
- Positive and friendly attitude and provides excellent service to students, public, and other employees.
- Must be able to maintain confidentiality.
- Ability to operate office automated equipment and good computer skills.
- Ability to read and comprehend instructions pertaining to enrollment services.
- Ability to write reports and correspondence.
- Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to students, parents and other employees of organization.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Checks, Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations
- Security Sensitive position: all applicants are subject to a criminal background check under South Texas College policy.
- In addition, subject to a federal background check.
- Must have or qualify for a valid Texas driver's license and proof of liability insurance.
- Certificates of Completion for F-1 Regulations for Beginners and Intermediate required.
Physical Requirements
- Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
- Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.
- Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
- Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
- Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
- Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
- Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.
The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.
Organization
Founded in 1993, South Texas College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and offers more than 120 degree & certificate options, including associate degrees in a variety of liberal art, social science, business, math, science, technology, advanced manufacturing and allied health fields of study. Additionally, South Texas College is the only community college in the State of Texas to offer four baccalaureate degrees. South Texas College has a faculty and staff of more than 2,700 to serve the college’s five campuses, two higher education centers, and one virtual campus.
Since 2000, the Dual Credit Programs has served over 100,000 high school students at 70 high school sites, saving families over 200 million dollars in tuition.
South Texas College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award the Baccalaureate and Associate degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4500 for questions about the accreditation of South Texas College.
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