What does a financial aid assistant do?

As a financial aid assistant, your responsibilities are to assess students’ financial aid applications and make recommendations. You may also help to compile a financial aid package for the students. You review and verify all of the student’s financial documents to determine their current financial situation. You may interview the applicant or their family and communicate with them about the status of their application. You also provide the applicants with information about different forms of aid, such as Pell grants, work-study programs, or college grants, for example. This job may require database maintenance as well.