Admissions Advisor I

Everspring; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 27,552 - 38,572; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Parental leave

Health insurance

401k with employer match

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Everspring is seeking an energetic Admissions Advisor I to guide online students through the admissions journey and represent our Partner with integrity from Chicago. This role emphasizes consultative relationships, timely information, and strong collaboration with cross-functional teams in a hybrid setting.

You will handle inquiries, demonstrate program fit, and help students meet deadlines while maintaining a clean pipeline and accurate progress tracking.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• 0 to 2 years of consultative sales, customer service, or recruiting experience in an online environment.
• Ability to work non-standard shift for student support coverage.
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.

Responsibilities

• Communicate with prospective students via phone, chat, SMS, and/or email.
• Demonstrate program expertise and guide applicants through admissions decisions.
• Cultivate relationships with potential students and build trust.
• Maintain accurate forecasting data to admissions management.
• Support a collaborative, team-oriented department.

Skills

Consultative sales

Customer service

Time management

Communication

Collaboration

Recruiting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Everspring is a leading provider of education technology and service solutions. Our advanced technology, proven marketing approach, research-based instructional design services, and robust faculty support deliver outstanding outcomes for our university partners, powering their success online.

Position: Admissions Advisor I

Our Admissions team is focused on positively impacting the lives of rising online students. This team is committed to building high‑impact relationships in order to guide and assist students through our university partner’s enrollment process. The Online Admissions Advisor I is an exciting position for an energetic, goal‑oriented and results‑driven individual who is passionate about online education and helping students succeed. The Admissions Advisor I will be the voice of our university partner (“Partner”) and represent our Partner with the highest ethics as they work with online students to apply and enable them for success through their application journey. The Admission Advisor I will work in a team environment and support colleagues — to meet our Partner’s expectations and reinforce a high quality, end‑to‑end learner experience. This is an hourly role which reports to the Associate/Director of Admissions and is located in Chicago, offering a hybrid work environment with a minimum of 2 days required in the office every week.

Responsibilities

• Communication with prospective students via phone, chat, SMS, and/or email.
• Demonstrate subject matter expertise within your assigned program. Assist and guide prospective students through the admissions process to help determine if a program is the right fit.
• Cultivate relationships with potential students while building trust and rapport.
• Exhibit outstanding communication skills, program knowledge and overall consultative effectiveness to allow prospective students to make meaningful decisions about their education.
• Manage and update student database tool to help track student progress through the admissions process to ensure updated and clean pipeline.
• Track and monitor student movement through the application process and guide them to meet specific deadlines.
• Provide accurate forecasting data to the admissions management.
• Maintain consistent communication with potential student to keep them engaged and aware of their responsibilities during the application process.
• Serve as a vital member of a highly collaborative, team‑oriented department.
• Demonstrate mastery of multiple programs and have strong familiarity of key competitor's program information.
• Demonstrate ability to articulate program differentiators and value of Everspring supported programs.
• Provide exemplary service level: timely response to student interest with appropriate and thorough provision of information.
• Mastery of consultative sales approach demonstrated on all observation forms.
• Attain satisfactory scores on student satisfaction surveys.
• Attain satisfactory call observation scores.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution.
• 0 to 2 years of consultative sales, customer service, or recruiting experience in an online environment.
• Ability to work non‑standard shift for student support coverage (7‑4, 8‑5, 9‑6, 10‑7, 11‑8, 12‑9).
• Ability to work overtime when business needs require it (3‑4 times per year during program deadlines).
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing. Effectively represent partner on recorded webinars.
• A passion for education and desire to help students achieve their educational goals.
• Demonstrate ability to execute consultative and customer service relationship.
• Demonstrated ability to manage time effectively with multiple priorities.
• Ability to implement feedback from manager through call coaching sessions then generate positive results.
• Strong collaboration with other cross‑functional teams.

About Everspring

Everspring is a leading provider of education technology and service solutions. Our advanced technology, proven marketing approach, research‑based instructional design services, and robust faculty support deliver outstanding outcomes for our university partners, powering their success online. Based in Chicago, we serve a growing number of colleges and universities.

Benefits include hybrid work arrangement, parental leave, health insurance, FSA, HSA dental, short‑term and long‑term disability, 401k with an employer match vested immediately, a generous PTO plan that accrues with tenure, professional development, paid parental leave program, tuition reimbursement program, pet insurance and more.

EEO Note

Everspring is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Everspring makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.