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About the Role

Blue Education is seeking a Career Coaching Lead to build and scale its career coaching business. This role is for an entrepreneurial, commercially minded, and execution-focused individual who understands competitive graduate recruitment and can coach ambitious students. The goal is to transform career coaching into a core, scalable business line.

Responsibilities

• Lead the build-out of Blue Education’s career coaching offer in the UK.
• Turn early success cases into a structured, repeatable, and scalable service.
• Define the student journey, coaching process, service standards, and delivery model.
• Work closely with the founder to make career coaching a core business line.
• Build the operating system for managing students, coaches, timelines, outcomes, and feedback.
• Oversee support for students applying to spring weeks, internships, graduate schemes, and other competitive opportunities.
• Deliver 1:1 coaching, especially for high-priority students (20-30% of time).
• Ensure students receive clear, practical, high-standard guidance.
• Track progress, outcomes, and success stories.
• Manage the existing network of part-time coaches.
• Recruit additional high-quality part-time coaches.
• Match students with the right coaches based on sector, target role, and support needs.
• Maintain high standards across all coaching delivery.
• Ensure coaches are credible, prepared, and able to add real value.
• Represent Blue Education at university campuses, student events, webinars, and workshops.
• Deliver high-quality talks on careers, applications, internships, and graduate recruitment.
• Collaborate with sales and marketing colleagues to shape events, campaigns, and messaging.
• Build credibility with students at top UK universities.
• Position Blue Education as a serious player in university-to-career support.
• Collaborate with admissions consultants, mentors, sales, and marketing teams.
• Provide insight into student needs and market demands.
• Help create content, guides, workshops, and event materials.
• Use student feedback and results to continuously improve the product.

Requirements

• 3-6 years of experience in investment banking, consulting, finance, or a closely related high-performance professional environment.
• Strong understanding of competitive graduate recruitment.
• Excellent public speaking and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple students, coaches, deadlines, and outcomes simultaneously.
• Entrepreneurial mindset: comfortable building, testing, iterating, and owning results.
• Strong project management ability.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• High standards, strong judgment, and ability to work directly with senior leadership.
• Experience coaching students or graduates into competitive roles (nice to have).
• Experience with spring weeks, internships, graduate schemes, assessment centres, or case interviews (nice to have).
• Experience organizing university events, workshops, or campus campaigns (nice to have).
• Experience managing freelancers, mentors, tutors, or part-time professionals (nice to have).
• Knowledge of UK and international student markets (nice to have).
• Mandarin Chinese language ability or experience working with international students (nice to have).

Skills

• Career direction and sector selection
• CV and cover letter support
• LinkedIn and professional profile building
• Networking strategy
• Spring week, internship, and graduate scheme applications
• Psychometric test preparation
• Assessment centre preparation
• Behavioural interviews
• Technical interviews
• Case interviews
• Commercial awareness
• Offer decisions and long-term career strategy
• Coaching
• Project management
• Public speaking
• Brand building
• Cross-functional collaboration

Location

• London

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• 3-6 years

Salary/Compensations

• £60,000-£85,000 base salary
• Performance bonus
• Equity

About the Company

• Blue Education is a university admissions consultancy working with ambitious students aiming for top universities in the UK and globally.
• The company has a student base, a trusted brand in university admissions, early career coaching success cases, and a network of part-time coaches.