Graduation & Alumni Certification Manager

About the role

The Office of the Registrar seeks an energetic team player to serve as Manager of the Graduation team. The Office of the Registrar is a fast-paced, collaborative unit dedicated to providing students, faculty, and staff with superior service in a variety of tasks and processes. The graduation team plays a critical role across campus in verifying degree requirements and supporting graduating students, alumni, and faculty/staff in the colleges and schools at Auburn University.

As the leader of the graduation team, this individual will coordinate and oversee degree-verification and awarding processes, provide direct support for and collaboration with Auburn’s colleges and administrative units, manage external partnerships with vendors and other organizations, and contribute to innovations and improvements to the team’s processes.

Responsibilities

• Monitors the requirements for students pursuing graduation, including ensuring appropriate hours are completed, minimum GPA achieved, assessing holds, and coordinating outreach with academic units to verify that graduation requirements have been met.
• Manages and coordinates graduation team processes and reports, including diploma application forms, web page updates, diploma orders, memos and reports, commencement programming and lists, degree verifications, and graduation statistics.
• Coordinates and partners with key campus units inside and outside the Office of the Registrar, including admissions, academic events (commencement), the pathway and transfer center, the graduate school, career services, and institutional research.
• Evaluates and posts information to academic records, including designating honors and posting degrees, majors, and minors.
• Coordinates the Office of the Registrar assistance with commencement ceremonies.
• Coordinates, in conjunction with the Associate Registrar, the graduation team’s needs and partnerships with external companies and organizations that provide diplomas, transcripts, verifications, and other needed products and services.
• Contributes as a member of the graduation team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree.
• 5 years of experience in a registrar's office, working with academic records/verifications, or closely related work.
• Prior experience should demonstrate increasing levels of responsibility, including some supervisory or team-lead experience.

Benefits

• Life-Changing Impact: Work that changes lives through research, instruction, and outreach, making a lasting impact on students, communities, and the world.
• Culture of Excellence: Commitment to leveraging strengths, resources, collaboration, and innovation as a top employer in higher education.
• Support & Work/Life Balance: Generous benefits, educational opportunities, and a culture of support.
• Location: Southern charm of the Auburn/Opelika area with vibrant downtown scenes, top-ranked schools, and easy access to Atlanta, Birmingham, and Gulf of Mexico beaches.
• Inclusivity: A welcoming environment where all faculty, staff, and students are valued, respected, and engaged.

Contract Type: Continuing