Manager, Awards - Vancouver, Canada - University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

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Vancouver, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Staff - Non Union

Job Category

M&P - AAPS

Job Profile

AAPS Salaried - Student Management, Level D

Job Title

Manager, Awards - Processing

Department

Awards | International Student Initiative

Compensation Range

$8, $12,575.08 CAD Monthly

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Posting End Date

April 18, 2024

Note:
Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date above.

Job End Date

Sept 12, 2025

This is a 16 month term position.

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students.

Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Job Summary

Recruitment and retention of international undergraduate student talent through an exceptional international awards program supports faculty enrolment targets, enables UBC to compete effectively for outstanding international students with university peers in Canada, the US and abroad, and ensures access to UBC for a number of international students from diverse socio-economic backgrounds.

The International Student Initiative is responsible for designing and maintaining scholarship programs that enable the university to meet its international undergraduate enrolment and diversity goals.

The Awards Team as part of the ISI is responsible for supporting the recruitment and retention of outstanding international undergraduate students through recruitment activities, and award adjudication and administration - Awards Processing - as well as continuing scholarship recipient programming and advising - Awards Programming.

Additionally, this position strategically ideates, designs and manages recruitment, and collaborates with the Manager Awards, Programming on retention events and activities intended to support and develop exceptional merit and need-plus-merit (hybrid) scholarship recipients throughout their time at UBC, from prospect development, admissions, registration and through to graduation.

This is primarily an on-campus recruitment position that may only occasionally be required to engage in off-campus recruitment-related travel to support Awards recruitment and strategic ISI recruitment initiatives.

Organizational Status

The Manager, Awards - Processing reports to the Director, International Recruitment, Scholarships and Awards on a strategic and operational basis.

Within the Awards Team there are two portfolios - Processing, which manages award recruitment, adjudication and administration, and Programming which manages new and continuing student advising and programming.

This role works closely and collaboratively with the Director and Manager, Awards - Programming, as well as members of ISI staff at both the UBC V as well as the UBC O campuses.

The incumbent manages staff, works with International Student Recruiters and Advisors, and provides management to volunteers on a number of projects and events.

Works closely and collaboratively with units in Enrolment Services such as Admissions, Enrolment Service Advisors, Student Financial Support, and Systems.

Work Performed

The incumbent will manage the development, implementation and evaluation of University-wide international undergraduate scholarship and award programs, including all associated business processes, policies and systems. This includes responding to and managing elevated student cases.
Manages the day-to-day operations of the ISI Awards Processing unit within the Awards Team that consists of one recruiter/advisor position and two co-op positions. This includes monitoring and managing workflows and workloads of all unit members.
Leads and provides overall management of the adjudication, selection and offer processes for all awards programs offered by the ISI to students at both UBC campuses with the purpose of recruiting a diverse, academically talented and engaged awards cohort each academic year. This work focusses on policy development and implementation, as well as the ideation and creation of awards adjudication and processing systems and business processes.
Leads the ongoing evaluation of all services and processes provided by the ISI Awards Team, especially with regards to developing measures for evaluating program effectiveness. This includes reporting to the Director on the spend within designated pools of funding, yield rates and establishing award offer values, adjudica