Job Details
**Student Support Specialist**
Columbus, MS **Type:** Full-Time **Posted:** 10/22/2021 **Job Summary:**The Student Support Specialist coordinates disability and testing services, manages data, assists in budget management and provides managerial and administrative support. **Essential Duties:**
* Processes standardized test registrations
* Administers standardized tests
* Develops accommodations plans for students with disabilities
* Supports student accommodations (i.e., supervises extended testing sessions)
* Provides administrative support to the director
* Prepares correspondence and mass mailings
* Assists in coordinating seminars and classes for the SSC (Including Summer Dev. Program)
* Maintains office files, supplies, equipment, and inventory records
* Tracks student matriculation
* Hires, trains, supervises and places student tutors
* Uses Banner to access and edit student records
* Maintains financial records and prepares purchase requisitions
* Maintains records of retention efforts with probation/suspension students and first-year students with absences and low first semester GPAs
* Remains current with regulations with policy and practice related to student accommodations
* Serves as liaison with faculty and staff regarding student accommodations
* Assists in budgetary management
* Participates in staff meetings and provides updates as requested
* Pursues professional growth activities
* Coordinates website content with webmaster
* Other reasonable duties as assigned
**Minimum Qualifications:** Education: Bachelors degree required. Masters degree preferred; seasoned professional knowledge equivalent to a masters degree required.
Experience:
* One year of full-time experience at an institution of higher education
* One to three years of experience of test administration, accommodations, data management
* Must have knowledge of ADA regulations
* Must be proficient in the use of Microsoft Office
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
* Successful applicant must have the ability to work with confidential information
Student Support Specialist Mississippi University for Women Columbus, MS To apply, please send all application materials to:
Office of Human Resources
Mississippi University for Women
1100 College Street W-1609
Columbus, MS 39701 *Please be sure to read the job posting carefully and submit all required information.*