School Sales Support Coordinator
San Diego, CA
Full Time
Business Development
Mid Level
Ascent is a leading provider of innovative financial products and student support services that enable more students to access education and achieve academic and economic success. Everything Ascent offers is designed with the best-in-class teams and technology to increase every student's ability to plan, pay, and succeed in their education and career. Ascent's planning tools and financing resources are co-created by students for those in college, graduate school, and career training programs. Ascent offers financial wellness education, student success services, and one-on-one and digital career coaching that put students' academic and professional goals within reach. Ascent has been widely recognized for its strong culture – named “Best Places to Work” by the San Diego Business Journal for the past 5 years – and as an industry leader – named “Best Student Loan” by NerdWallet for the past 3 years.
The School Sales Support Coordinator is responsible for supporting growth and development of our school-channel loan volume. In addition to providing administrative support to the company’s school Sales Relationships Manager(s), this position plays a critical role in managing relationships with lending product eligible institutions of higher education by taking a data-driven, service-oriented approach to meeting their needs.
The selected candidate must have a deep-rooted understanding of the higher education financial aid process and will be asked to serve the needs of schools across our entire national footprint.
Responsibilities:
Competitive pay with bonus, and comprehensive benefits package that includes, but not limited to:
The School Sales Support Coordinator is responsible for supporting growth and development of our school-channel loan volume. In addition to providing administrative support to the company’s school Sales Relationships Manager(s), this position plays a critical role in managing relationships with lending product eligible institutions of higher education by taking a data-driven, service-oriented approach to meeting their needs.
The selected candidate must have a deep-rooted understanding of the higher education financial aid process and will be asked to serve the needs of schools across our entire national footprint.
Responsibilities:
- Driving funded loan volume that is directly attributable to school channel sales.
- Establishing and maintaining ethical and professional relationships with key personnel within the Financial Aid Office (FAO), admissions office and finance department of eligible schools and promote our products and services.
- Ensure the timely and accurate completion and delivery of school Requests for Information (RFI’s) related to placement on school preferred lender lists.
- Optimizing the presentation of Ascent loan products on school lender lists through outbound communications campaigns.
- Maintenance of Ascent lending products as presented on 3rd-party school lender list platforms such as ELMSelect, FastChoice, etc.
- Coordinate the development and production of school-facing marketing and promotional materials with the product and marketing departments.
- Coordinate attendance, travel and lodging for school sales staff as well as procurement and delivery of marketing materials and collateral for financial aid and other industry conferences.
- Administration of school communications calendar and execution of bulk email campaigns to key FAO contacts.
- Occasional attendance at local / regional industry conferences may be required.
- 3+ years of direct experience working with or in the financial aid office of Title IV eligible institutions of higher education.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
- Highly organized with a keen focus and attention to detail.
- Strong oral and written communications skills.
- A motivated self-starter that is capable of coordinating critical service activities from external resources such as printing vendors and other suppliers.
- Deep understanding of the financial aid process for higher education.
- Technical proficiency in standard office software applications such as MS Word, Excel, email clients, HubSpot or other similar sales cycle and CRM-type applications, etc.
Competitive pay with bonus, and comprehensive benefits package that includes, but not limited to:
- This position pays $70,000- $80,000 annually plus bonus
- Company Stock Options
- 401(k) + Company Match
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Annual HSA contribution of $1,600
- Life insurance, disability, and critical illness
- 14 Paid Holidays! Eleven (11) + Two (2) Community Days + Your Birthday!
- Snacks and drinks in the office
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Generous paid leave policies
- $2,000 Vacation Incentive Plan after 3 years + $1,000 Sabbatical Day
- Wellness, work from home funds and more!
The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.
Equal Employment Opportunity
It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request.
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