College Admissions Researcher

About Empowerly

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 provide data-driven education technology, start-up and research internship programs, and personalized counseling led by former Admission Officers and experienced College Admissions 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 our students and 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 with a 360-degree view of how to be competitive against other applicants.

We are a fully remote, global workforce focused on building world-class, college admissions advisory services and programs.

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.

What you'll do

• 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. 

Qualifications

• 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