College Admissions Researcher

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. From college preparation, landing internships, and beyond, we support students in achieving their academic goals.   We provide data-driven education technology, start up and research internship programs, and personalized counseling led by former university Admission Officers and experienced College counselors. We are a rapidly growing, mission-driven, and venture-backed company. It takes a unified team committed to our core values – collaboration, data driven, and empowerment – to achieve this goal and a fast-moving team committed to serving the needs of families.   Each student is holistically evaluated through our Empowerly Score™ — the only predictive technology that can also quantify subjective material. Each student is offered a three-pronged approach to evaluate academics, essays, and extracurricular activities – providing them a 360-degree view of how to be competitive against other applicants.   Empowerly raised $30 million from investors, including Goodwater Capital, Conductive Ventures, FJ Labs, Scrum Ventures, Translink Capital, Azure Capital Partners, and Spero Ventures.     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 

Willingness to be responsive via email and Slack