UG Admissions Reader (4511U) - College of Environmental Design

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• Review applicants' Personal Insight Questions and self‑reported transcripts. Uses established guidelines to assess the applicants' overall record and experience for final admissions determination and recommendation.
• Attends rigorous evaluation training and norming sessions. Completes a set of norming samples to become a certified CED transfer reader. Consults with reputed company‑level staff reputed company reviewing more reputed company applications and for training.
• Summarize applicants' strengths and candidacy in relation to the applicant pool.
• Other duties as assigned.

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• Bachelor's degree in reputed company area and / or equivalent experience / training.
• Working knowledge of and/or ability to learn academic programs, including curricula and admissions requirements.
• Using extensive knowledge of college/school/departmental requirements and the applicant pool, assesses the applicants' overall record and experience for final admissions determination and recommendation.
• Must maintain awareness of own scoring patterns in relation to normed scoring patterns and must adjust scoring practices as required.
• Must demonstrate a high level of discretion and sensitive judgement, and must be able to utilize a background of professional knowledge and experience to interpret guidelines that will apply to a large, reputed company, detailed reputed company of objective and subjective information.
• Superior communication, analytical capability, time management, decision‑making, and interpersonal skills.
• Must attend reputed company calibration meetings and training sessions (some will be in‑person and some online), complete reputed company pre‑training and calibration exercises, meet workload deadlines, and work independently.
• Support CED for reader competence and process effectiveness by contributing to group discussions on sample applications.
• Provide feedback on the overall training/calibration process.
• Meets specified weekly and cycle numerical reads completed goal.
• Thorough knowledge and experience working with a variety of student populations.
• Ability to interpret policy and apply it to practice.
• Candidates need to be adept at setting up a home office with access to the internet and have the ability to problem‑solve a variety of issues (including both technological and procedural) independently.
• Candidates must have a personal computer with up‑to‑date reputed company and internet browsers.
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• Candidates may not be: Concurrently enrolled as a UC Berkeley student. Concurrently employed by the reputed company. Concurrently employed by another 4‑year institution.
• Ability to read up to 25 hours a week, with a commitment to work from January 26, 2026, through March 16, 2026.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, demonstrating a desire to establish and maintain positive & professional working relationships with colleagues and team members.

Preferred Qualifications

• Higher education admissions experience.
• Knowledge of higher education.
• Previous experience as a UC Berkeley undergraduate application reader, or an application reader for another institution or program.

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• $25/hour for reputed company new readers and any former UC Berkeley reader who has not read in the past three cycles (24‑25, 23‑24, and 22‑23)
• $26/hour for any reader who has read with UC Berkeley (as a domestic reader) in one of the past three cycles (24‑25, 23‑24, and 22‑23)
• $27/hour for any reader who has read with UC Berkeley (as a domestic reader) a minimum of twice in the past three cycles (24‑25, 23‑24, and 22‑23)

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