National Director of Financial Aid - Southern California University of Health Sciences

The Position:

As an expanding, multi-campus institution, SCU’s inaugural National Director of Financial Aid serves as the University’s chief financial aid officer, providing strategic leadership for all student financing activities across SCU’s national system of graduate health sciences programs and campuses. This role is responsible for aligning financial aid strategy with enrollment and net tuition revenue goals while ensuring regulatory compliance, high-touch service, and clear, transparent funding pathways for prospective and continuing students.

The National Director functions as the institution’s senior authority on student financing, including Title IV Federal Student Aid, work-study, state aid, institutional scholarships, tuition discounting, and alternative financing options in a post-Grad PLUS environment under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). The role leads the redesign of the financial aid operating model (people, processes, technology, and vendor partners) to balance student support, institutional sustainability, risk management, and service excellence, including SCU’s institutional response to OBBBA and Financial Value Transparency (FVT) requirements.

This National Director is charged with building the financial aid office of the future, one that addresses the pressures of high-tuition graduate healthcare education, reduced federal loan availability, and outdated legacy service models by delivering modern, sustainable, and student-centered financing solutions and will manage a staff of five supporting approximately 2,500 students across multiple locations.

Remote Opportunity: This position will require building strong relationships across the campus and nationally. Candidates for this position will have the option to work on campus, hybrid, or in a fully remote capacity. Travel to the main campus in Whittier and to future learning sites to build relationships and attend key events and meetings is expected. Travel costs will be budgeted for and covered by the University. Preferred base locations include Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, or Chicago.