Admissions Intern

Deadline to apply: January 1, 2025

Start Date: January 21, 2025

End Date: April 21, 2025 

Location: Remote*

*Candidates must be located in the following states: CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, IL, LA, MA, MI, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TX, VA, WA, WI

The Organization:

At Thrive Scholars, we provide high-achieving, diverse, and underrepresented students, including students of color from under-resourced communities, the opportunities they need to thrive at top colleges and in meaningful careers.

Our comprehensive and data-driven program model focuses on the key inflection points that can be the difference between graduating from any college and graduating from a top college with the grades, degree, career skills, and network needed to thrive in any career. Thrive Scholars originated in Los Angeles as South Central Scholars (“SCS”) twenty years ago. Over this time, the organization has refined its program model and, in the last five years, has focused on expanding nationally; reaching more high-achieving underrepresented students, growing the number of Scholars we serve; and deepening our program impact. Thrive Scholars has begun to grow its footprint with new summer program offerings in three additional cities, with more to come. The organization has approximately 75 year-round employees and close to 200 summer employees.

(Please read Thrive’s Economic Mobility Statement below.)

The Internship Experience: 

As an Intern at Thrive Scholars, you will get first hand experience learning the ins and outs of a growing non-profit. With the collaborative nature of our organization, you’ll have the opportunity to work across departments and contribute to new projects and initiatives. Interns will receive mentoring from their supervisors and other staff, as well as the opportunity to communicate and network with professionals across career fields. This internship runs January 21, 2025 through April 21, 2025. Interns will work an average of 10 hours per week at a rate of $17.50/hour.

The Opportunity:

Our Scholars’ first experience begins with the Recruitment, Admissions and Enrollment team! As the Admissions Intern, you will work directly with us to support the selection process as we shape our newest cohort of Scholars. You’ll have the opportunity to hone your communication and data management skills, as well as the chance to work on various projects within the organization and get in on the ground floor of empowering and supporting future leaders. 

Your work as the Admissions Intern will include using Salesforce CRM to manage admissions processes, Zoom Events to create and manage info sessions, and Wix to manage a website. Potential admissions projects to support include selection committee operations, moderating info sessions, managing data sets, auditing applications, participating in post-admission conversion campaigns and facilitating onboarding sessions for newly admitted Scholars. Some marketing projects may also be available such as video editing, creating social media posts, writing blog posts, handbook design and more. 

The ideal intern candidate will demonstrate:

• A high level of initiative and accountability
• Keen attention to detail
• Strong organizational and time-management skills
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to collaborate and work as a team member
• Genuine enthusiasm and ability to work in a high-energy virtual environment
• Intellectual curiosity and an interest in learning about the behind-the-scenes management of a non-profit
• Passion for working with and/or on behalf of first-generation, BIPOC students from economically disadvantaged communities
• Tech savvy or quick to learn new online tools

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Thrive Scholars provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status. Knowing their importance to the success of our work, Thrive Scholars is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we aspire to build a diverse staff team and community. We strongly encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.

For more information, please visit thrivescholars.org

Thrive Scholars’ Economic Mobility Statement:

We know that everywhere in our country, there are incredibly high-achieving BIPOC students from economically disadvantaged communities who have big aspirations for their future. By virtue of everything they have achieved—academically, personally, and extracurricularly—these students demonstrate tremendous promise to continue to achieve at great levels in college and in their careers. However, as a result of structural barriers they encounter during the pivotal transitions from high school to college to career, we know that many are hindered from reaching their career ambitions and their goals of economic mobility and financial security. We understand these barriers to be complex and rooted in deep societal inequities and in systemic racism, and we believe they must be addressed at all levels—individual, institutional, and systemic.    

At Thrive Scholars, we have found that we are well-equipped to make a meaningful impact on the individual student level. As an organization, we have identified some of the main barriers that get in the way of Scholars getting that first job out of college that will position them to realize economic mobility. We have developed, over the last twenty years, key interventions, delivered through our College Access, Summer Academy, College Success, Mentorship, and Career Development programs - all aimed at helping high-achieving students from economically disadvantaged communities overcome these obstacles to experience economic mobility. This is our North Star. We do not believe that is all of the work that needs to be done at a societal or even individual level in order to promote a just society where every individual can succeed holistically, but we believe this part of it is where we as an organization should focus.