College Adviser

Job Description

The Company:

Cappex's mission is to move every student closer to Day One at the college that's right for them. We get excited about converting a confusing, high-stress time in a student's life into a simple, organized, pursuit for the perfect fit. Cappex is growing and needs innovators like you to support our mission. Join our team today and help connect students to their dreams.

The Role: College Adviser

Cappex Admissions Advising provides high-quality advising services to college-bound students across the country via technology enabled solutions. We are looking for a College Adviser to join our growing team in a full-time capacity to help deliver an amazing experience to students and parents as they go through the college application process.

Job Responsibilities:

• Advise students and families on all aspects of the college admissions process: creating a college list strategy, maintaining deadlines, providing feedback on essays and applications, and providing financial aid guidance.
• Help scale the business by proactively supporting new service features and improvements, and by creating actionable insights from student and parent interactions.
• Continually improve and expand a knowledge base with resources to support internal teams, students, and parents.

Requirements:

• A passion for helping students and parents
• Experience working with students and their parents in an educational capacity. Counseling experience preferred, but not required. Preferred experience includes guiding students through the admissions process, planning their admissions journey, creating a college list, developing personal statements, reviewing supplemental essays and applications, and providing guidance on financial aid.
• Excellent customer service skills and great on the phone
• An operational lens to the world--always looking to make your own processes more efficient
• Highly organized and able to successfully manage a caseload of over 30 students
• A creative person excited to help scale our business while maintaining quality
• Comfortable with uncertainty and change
• A "by any means necessary" attitude
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Experience reviewing admissions essays preferred, but not required. Must have excellent writing skills and the ability to provide quality feedback on essays.
• Ability to work well with different technology platforms
• A flexible schedule--during the fall semester, the job isn't a 9 to 5, and nights and weekends are required based on student/parent availability.
• Bachelor's degree required

To be considered:

Apply with your resume and cover letter telling us why you're a great fit.

All applications will be kept confidential. We appreciate all interest, but will only contact those applicants with whom we wish to proceed further.

Equal Opportunity Employer