Executive Financial Aid Staff

The “Greatest Generation” of Financial Aid Directors is Retiring at an Accelerating Pace

This position, always crucial to the successful recruitment and student life on campus, has become strategic.  Directors are now required to understand and manage not only the arcane world of financial aid, but also the increasingly sophisticated role that aid strategy plays in delivering a class in terms of numbers, but a class with a particular set of characteristics that reflect strategic enrollment goals.  Many colleges struggle to fill these key positions.

Recruiting the Best and Keeping Them Requires a Professional

Advertising is important, but would you place an ad for prospective students in Seventeen Magazine and leave it at that? Enter Hardwick-Day’s Executive Search and Development Service for financial aid offices, available only to private colleges and universities.

Hardwick-Day is perhaps the only search service staffed by people who have actually worked in Financial Aid offices—people who will take the time to gain a deep understanding of your institution’s needs and who have relationships with many top financial aid officers. We know the field, we’ve got connections, and we vigorously pursue every lead. Our service is highly personalized.

We will search inside as well as outside your institution. If you have promising internal candidates with incomplete financial aid backgrounds, we will provide customized training and professional development to help you retain and advance them.

Hardwick-Day also conducts financial aid and admissions training workshops that are open to any private college professional.

Whether you are a college in search of a new Financial Aid Director or a professional seeking new employment opportunities, please contact David Busse, Managing Director.

Recently Completed Searches

• Director of Financial Aid, Saint Martin’s University
• Director of Financial Aid, University of Portland
• Director of Financial Aid, Hofstra University
• Asst. Vice Chancellor for Scholarships & Financial Aid, Univ. of Denver
• Financial Aid Director, California Lutheran University
• Director of the Office of Financial Aid, Capella University