Junior College Counselor and Tutor Coordinator
Junior College Counselor and Tutor Coordinator
An admissions consulting and tutoring company is looking for a new team member to assist its lead counselors, provide client support, and help with hiring tutors. The ideal candidate loves education and empowering others, is extremely organized and detail-oriented, and demonstrates unwavering integrity and strong commitment.
Responsibilities
We are a small business and tight-knit team looking for someone who can provide support in a variety of areas as needed:
College Admissions Support
- Take notes during our counselor-client meetings and provide session summaries to clients
- Conduct research on and become familiar with summer programs, extracurricular opportunities, and contest/publications and support students throughout the application/submission process
- Oversee the editorial process for our monthly newsletter to 5,000+ subscribers
- Review written content in our proprietary College Counseling Guide to ensure it is up to date
- Edit and provide feedback on student application materials
- Opportunity to work one-on-one with your own students based on experience/interest
Tutor Coordination/Customer Support
- Help strategize tutor-student pairings for both Arete and its sister company The Classroom Door (TCD)
- Create job postings, review tutor applications, and schedule/conduct interviews with prospective tutors for Arete and TCD
- Monitor the TCD platform’s activities and respond to student inquiries to ensure a smooth client experience
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree from a top four-year institution
- Experience providing editorial support/tutoring writing; extraordinary grammar, writing, and editing skills
- Interest in high school counseling and/or college admissions field is a plus
- Self-starter with ability to work in a fast-paced environment and tackle multiple tasks diligently and independently
- Extremely organized and detail-oriented, with accountability to deadlines
- Reliable, punctual, and committed
- Ability to handle confidential information and uphold high standards of integrity and ethical conduct
- Team player willing to wear many hats
- Proficiency with Google Docs
Location
- Option to work in our New York-based office, remotely, or create a hybrid schedule
Start Date/Timeframe
- Start date: ASAP
- Schedule: full-time, 10 am-6 pm ET
- Time commitment: We dedicate a lot of time to training you at the beginning and are a small team, so we are looking for someone who can make a long-term commitment with us (at least two years, but many of our team members have been with us for close to a decade, and there is a lot of room to stay and continue to grow within the company in the areas of the business that most interest you)
Compensation
- $23-30/hour