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# Engagement Center Manager at Encoura

- **Company:** Encoura
- **Location:** Bellingham, WA
- **Posted:** 2026-09-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/encoura/jobs/4420378009

## Job description

## Role Overview

The Engagement Center Manager (ECM) is responsible for building and leading a high performing team of Engagement Ambassadors who connect with alumni, parents and friends of a college or university or other institution. The ECM enthusiastically motivates staff and leverages Encoura’s engagement platform to deliver personalized, omni-channel outreach including phone, text, and personalized video to every constituent. This role offers valuable experience in team building, program management, budgeting, and other critical skills needed for long-term success in fundraising and engagement. The ECM works onsite and is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the engagement center’s fundraising program.

A Day in the Life

- Build and sustain a strong engagement culture by recruiting, hiring, coaching, and developing a team of part time Engagement Ambassadors and Supervisors.
- Deliver an exceptional client experience through consistent communication with clients and Encoura internal teams.
- Utilize insights to develop and execute daily outreach strategies that maximize constituent engagement. Examples of daily outreach strategies include telephone, texting, and video.
- Monitor program performance and adjust tactics to achieve both short- and long-term client goals.
- Maintain positive, collaborative relationships with clients, coworkers, and leadership.
- Coordinate efforts with program-specific support teams to ensure seamless execution.
- Manage Encoura’s engagement platform to deliver personalized, omni-channel outreach to every constituent.
- Design and implement strategies to motivate and retain staff members.
- Analyze program results and reporting data, including forecasting, projections, and statistical analysis to drive program improvements.
- Serve as the site’s HR and payroll liaison, coordinating with HR to support staffing, performance management, timekeeping, and compliance.
- Actively monitor program budget and expenses to ensure financial performance and efficiency.

## Role Progression

- Within 1 month, you’ll: Build strong stakeholder relationships, understand client goals and obligations, lead effective coaching and team huddles, support recruitment and payroll needs, learn reporting and escalation processes, and understand key metrics and calculations.
- Within 3 months, you’ll: Lead calling shifts and adapt leadership style to align with employee skill levels, enforce performance standards, use metrics and data to coach, address performance in client meetings, complete required reports, and know when to resolve issues internally or involve the client.
- Within 6 months, you’ll: Manage programs independently by using segmentation to guide strategy, optimize staffing and outreach through data, anticipate risks with solutions, and drive measurable improvement in key KPIs.

## About You

- Associate’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Strong supervisory and leadership ability demonstrated in past work experience; former call center, fundraising or enrollment experience a plus.
- Demonstrated organizational skills that support successful managing of a multi-faceted engagement center and accompanying student staff.
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills.
- Multi-task oriented, with the capabilities to effectively execute multiple managerial duties simultaneously.
- Must be able to analyze statistics and offer insight into statistical trending of program/project; comfort with mathematics is required.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (specifically Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel).
- Ability to thrive in an environment with limited oversight.
- Dedication to a unique afternoon and evening schedule (Sunday – Thursday, 12:30 pm to 9:30 pm).
- Position predominantly includes sitting/standing for long periods of time, close vision through the use of a computer screen; extensive keyboarding, talking, hearing, and infrequent light physical effort is required (minimum of fifteen pounds).
- Successful candidates will be required to complete and pass a CLEAR™ identity verification as part of the pre-employment screening process.
- [CLEAR™ Candidate FAQ](https://support.greenhouse.io/hc/en-us/articles/40497797083419-CLEAR-FAQ-for-candidates)

The annual base salary for this exempt position is $80,168.40. Encoura establishes compensation using national market data, internal equity considerations, and organizational budget factors to ensure fairness and consistency across the organization. Employees in this role are eligible for Encoura’s comprehensive benefits package, which includes health insurance, retirement contributions, paid time off, and other programs that support employee well‑being.

## About  Us

Encoura’s mission is to empower students and institutions to create meaningful connections so everyone can make the most informed decisions to achieve their goals. Since 1972, the Company has evolved its products and services to better represent the link between students and higher education institutions and to create the highest probability of student success.

Encoura’s expertise now spans enrollment, research, marketing, student success, and advancement and provides an unmatched combination of higher education experience and innovative solutions for colleges and universities. The Company also offers Encourage® — the nation’s largest free college and career planning program used by millions of high school students and educators nationwide.

It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information. All applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S.

Encoura endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans pursuant to applicable federal and state law. If you are an individual with a disability and require reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability and need an alternative method for applying, please contact the Talent Team.

Applicants from California, please review the [CA HR Privacy Notice](https://nrccua-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/jordan_skiles_encoura_org/ERJJTDfdLixBrrbeKNcBuI8BDfeXRGhUfWi1xA1hWbaxcQ?e=QTTFDw).

To review our privacy policy, please click this link: https://encoura.org/privacy-policy/

## About Encoura

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Encoura provides data, research, and technology solutions to help higher education institutions attract, enroll, retain, and advance students across the full lifecycle.
- **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of ACT, acquired in 2018)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 1972
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (originally founded as NRCCUA)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Higher education technology and services (enrollment management, student success, advancement)
- **Target customers**: Colleges and universities (B2B, primarily mid-to-large institutions in the U.S.)
- **Mission or purpose**: "Empower students and institutions to create meaningful connections so everyone can make the most informed decisions to achieve their goals." [encoura.org](https://encoura.org/about-encoura/)

## Products & Services
- **Encoura Platform**: Comprehensive enrollment management SaaS that provides funnel reporting, competitive benchmarking, and predictive analytics.
- **Eduventures Research**: Research and advisory division offering market intelligence, demand forecasts, and program innovation insights.
- **Encourage (app)**: Free college and career planning program for high school students, including career exploration, college matching, scholarship matching, and application guidance.
- **Strategic Enrollment Consulting**: Custom consulting services from former enrollment leaders to develop recruitment and communication strategies.
- **Data & Data Science**: Proprietary combined data set (ACT data + Encourage student data) plus AI-driven predictive models for financial aid optimization, yield improvement, and retention.
- **Marketing Services**: Digital and traditional marketing solutions, parent/guardian personas, and institutional website consulting.
- **Alumni Relations & Advancement**: CRM and donor giving management platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (privately held; acquired by ACT in 2018)
- **Key Metric**: Serves over 2,000 educational institutions [encoura.org](https://encoura.org/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: ACT (parent company); long-standing partnerships with high schools (7,000+ participating in Encourage program)
- **Growth Signals**: 200+ employees working remotely across 35+ states; over 50 years of operating history; continuous expansion of AI-driven tools and research offerings

## Competitive Advantages
- **Largest sole-source proprietary database**: Combined data from ACT and the Encourage program, providing unique student and parent insights not available elsewhere.
- **Full-lifecycle approach**: Covers the entire student journey from prospect to alumni, unlike many competitors focused on only one stage.
- **Deep domain expertise**: Over 50 years of experience in higher education enrollment and research, with a dedicated research division (Eduventures) providing forward-looking market intelligence.
- **AI-driven predictive models**: Proprietary algorithms to optimize financial aid awards, improve yield, and strengthen retention.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand data and AI capabilities**: Continue developing predictive models and advanced analytics to help institutions make data-informed decisions.
- **Deepen the student engagement platform**: Enhance the Encourage app and its integration with institutional systems to improve student outcomes.
- **Grow the research and advisory arm**: Leverage Eduventures to influence institutional strategy and program innovation.
- **Support remote-first operations**: Maintain a distributed workforce to attract top talent nationwide while retaining a strong culture.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: 200+ employees work remotely across 35+ states; no central office requirement.
- **Generous time off**: Unlimited PTO (immediately eligible), 3 weeks of paid company holidays, and up to 16 weeks of Paid Family Leave.
- **Competitive compensation**: Competitive salaries, bonus incentives, 401(k) with immediate 100% vesting match, and fully paid life/disability insurance.
- **Health & wellness**: Medical, dental, vision insurance with employer-paid premiums up to 93%; FSA/HSA with employer contribution.
- **Professional development**: Annual tuition reimbursement program and the Barbra Stocker Scholarship for employees’ children.
- **Mission-driven work**: Opportunity to directly impact students’ educational journeys and institutional success.
- **Values-based environment**: Emphasis on opportunity, integrity, connectedness, innovation, and empowerment.

## Sources
1. [encoura.org](https://encoura.org/)
2. [encoura.org/about-encoura](https://encoura.org/about-encoura/)
3. [encoura.org/about-encoura/join-us](https://encoura.org/about-encoura/join-us/)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/encoura)
5. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/encoura)

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