Coalition Application

The Coalition for College is seeking a Slate CRM Manager to develop, enhance, and maintain the organization's Slate CRM instance, used for customer relationship management across a variety of constituents including students, college members, and donors. As the administrator of the Coalition's Slate instance, which is used both as a membership CRM and fundraising CRM, the Manager will be the Slate expert within our seven-person team. The successful candidate will have a proven track record working in the Slate CRM, will strive for both creative solutions and accuracy, and will have a passion for improving access to higher education for all students. This position is fully remote and reports to the CEO.

Responsibilities include:

• Functional, end-to-end ownership and delivery of all organizational business processes carried out in Slate, including (but not limited to):

  • Creating and maintaining accurate and secure organizational records for Coalition members and parents and individual records for diverse constituencies, including students and donors

  • Processing payments for event registrations, annual dues, and donations

  • Delivery of communications campaigns across audiences to support Coalition initiatives

  • Reporting on engagement of constituencies to support member recruitment and retention and donor cultivation, solicitation and stewardship

• Translating evolving business needs into durable technical implementations that align with organizational goals

• Building audit and testing processes that ensure the accuracy, consistency, and security of data, reporting, and user experience across Slate

• Creating and maintaining forms, queries, reports, rules, interactions, populations, events, portals, custom datasets, user access, documentation, and staff training

• Evaluating existing systems and workflows to identify opportunities for simplification, automation, and performance improvement

• Supporting assessment of and reporting on organizational programs by ensuring that Slate has appropriate data for analyzing impact

• Researching and learning emerging technologies and techniques to continuously improve implementation of systems and team workflows

Required skills and experience

• Bachelor's degree

• Minimum 5 years experience using and optimizing Slate as an administrator

• Strategic thinker and self-starter, capable of seeing needs and opportunities and following through to make them happen

• Problem solver and trouble shooter who can evaluate system performance, identify technical issues, and propose effective solutions, ensuring data integrity and accurate results

• Analytical and systems thinking with demonstrated ability to assess the requirements of users to identify and propose solutions

• Strong collaborator and communicator, invested in building relationships to accomplish shared goals

• Self-motivated and comfortable working independently in a remote-first workplace

Preferred skills and experience

• Familiarity with college admissions and the application process

• Familiarity with use of Slate both for admissions and advancement 

• Familiarity and experience with HTML, CSS, and SQL

• Familiarity with Slate-based and third-party integrations for web measurement and analytics
  

Salary and benefits

The salary range for this role is $80,000 to $90,000. The final salary offer will be based on the candidate's skills, education, work location and experience.

The Coalition offers a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, and vision plans, life and disability insurance, a 401(K) savings plan, observed holidays, paid time off, and sick/medical leave. 

About the Coalition

The Coalition for College envisions a future where all students have access to a successful, affordable, and transformative college experience. The Coalition is a diverse group of over 150 college and university members, who seek to democratize access to high quality college information that helps students learn about, prepare for, and apply to college, while strengthening resources and tools for students, parents, counselors, and other student supporters. Our members are committed to making college affordable and attainable, including for students from limited-income backgrounds.