Transcript Evaluator, Degree Auditor

Job Description:

• Guided by existing policies, practices, and procedures to evaluate traditional and non-traditional transfer credit in order to maximize applicable transfer credit.
• Ensure accuracy of a student’s program and plan information, course credit applicability, and accuracy of coursework placing on a student’s academic advisement report which provides a pathway to their credential.
• Demonstrates elevated level written and oral communication skills by communicating professionally and anticipating the needs of the learner and internal staff.
• Responds promptly to student and advisor questions regarding transfer credit and academic advisement, meeting established SLA deadlines.
• Proactively seeks to ensure questions and issues are managed with tact, diplomacy, and integrity by collaborating with advising units to ensure learner needs are being met.
• Synthesizes incoming transfer credit scenarios specific to discipline and collaborates daily with evaluation staff.

Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor's Degree
• Experience: Minimum of 1 year experience in a registrar’s office, academic records, graduation services, degree audit, transfer credit, academic advising, admissions operations, or a closely related higher education student services function.
• Demonstrated experience reviewing and interpreting student academic records, including transcripts, transfer credit, test credit, course substitutions, waivers, repeated coursework, academic standing, catalog year requirements, and program/plan requirements.
• Experience conducting degree audits, graduation reviews, or academic progress evaluations to determine whether students have satisfied institutional, program, general education, residency, credit, GPA, and graduation requirements.

Benefits:

• Generous Time Off: Enjoy 22 days of paid vacation, 15 days of sick leave, 3 personal days, and 16 paid holidays (17 during general election years). Time off rates will be prorated based on the number of hours worked.
• Comprehensive Health Coverage: Access to health care, medical with vision, dental, and prescription plans for both individuals and families, effective from the 1st of the month following your hire date.
• Insurance Options: Term Life Insurance, Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance, and Long-Term Disability (LTD) Insurance.
• Retirement Stipend: Contingent II employees receive a retirement stipend equal to 7.25 percent of their base salary and are eligible to contribute to a supplemental retirement account (SRA).
• Supplemental Retirement Plans: include 401(k), 403(b), 457(b), and various Roth options. The university does not provide subsidies or matching funds.
• Tuition Remission: CII employees are eligible immediately for Tuition Remission at UMGC or at University of Maryland College Park. Spouses and dependent children are eligible for undergraduate tuition remission after two years of service. NOTE: For part-time employees (at least 50 percent of the time), tuition remission benefits are prorated.