As a College Admissions Researcher, you will utilize both in-house data and online resources to provide personalized answers to college admissions questions for students and families.
Empowerly (Empowerly.com) is an education technology company that personalizes college and career counseling, with a mission to empower students to become the most successful version of themselves. We help students discover their passions and get accepted to their top choice colleges and internships.
We provide data-driven education technology, start up and research internship programs, and personalized counseling led by former college Admission Officers. We are a rapidly growing, mission-driven, and venture-backed company. It takes a unified team committed to our core values to achieve this goal – collaboration, data driven and empowerment – and a fast-moving team committed to serving the needs of families.
Empowerly raised $12 million from investors, including Goodwater Capital, FJ Labs, Scrum Ventures, Translink Capital, Azure Capital Partners, and Spero Ventures.
Our leadership team has employees from Teach for America, FaceBook, Palo Alto Networks, PayPal, and a mix of Seed, A, B, C, Private and Publicly Traded companies leadership experience. Empowerly's co-founders, Hanmei and Changxiao, were also named in Forbes 30 Under 30 class of 2022.
About the Role
College Admissions Researchers search through both our in-house database and the internet in order to assemble personalized sets of data to answer college admissions-related questions asked by our Empowerly students, parents, and counselors.
Responsibilities
Conduct research regarding college admissions as well as high school extracurricular opportunities; presenting personalized findings in a clear and comprehensive manner to each family.
Analyze data from a variety of sources to compile neat, well thought-out advice for each high school family.
Work collaboratively with the Research Manager, Empowerly families and counselors to routinely deliver thorough sets of findings.
Update the team’s collective spreadsheets with each request in order to maintain a collaborative, up-to-date resource for the benefit of the whole team.
Requirements
Familiarity with the U.S. education and college admissions system
Excellent command of the English language
Capable of working independently in a virtual environment– including the ability to self-supervise quality and routine 72 hour deadlines
Willingness to take the adequate time (~0.5 - 2.0 hours) to research each family’s request, and, if necessary, think adaptively in order to find and present alternative opportunities
Strong command of G-Suite, or, a willingness to be taught G-Suite so as to be capable of meeting client expectations
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