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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 involves coaching ambitious students for competitive careers, managing part-time coaches, and developing scalable systems. The ideal candidate is entrepreneurial, commercially minded, and execution-focused, with experience in high-performance professional environments.
Responsibilities
- Build and scale the career coaching business in the UK.
- Transform early success cases into a structured, repeatable, and scalable service.
- Define the student journey, coaching process, service standards, and delivery model.
- Collaborate with the founder to establish career coaching as a core business line.
- Develop the operating system for managing students, coaches, timelines, outcomes, and feedback.
- Oversee student support for applications to spring weeks, internships, graduate schemes, and other competitive opportunities.
- Deliver 1:1 coaching, spending 20-30% of time on direct coaching.
- Ensure students receive clear, practical, high-standard guidance.
- Track student progress, outcomes, and success stories.
- Manage the existing network of part-time coaches.
- Recruit additional high-quality part-time coaches.
- Match students with appropriate coaches.
- Maintain high standards across all coaching delivery.
- Represent Blue Education at university campuses, student events, webinars, and workshops.
- Deliver talks on careers, applications, internships, and graduate recruitment.
- Collaborate with sales and marketing to shape events and messaging.
- Build credibility with students at top UK universities.
- Collaborate with admissions consultants, mentors, sales, and marketing teams.
- Provide insights into student needs and market demands.
- 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 with comfort in 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 coaching
- Business development
- Scalable service design
- Project management
- People management
- Public speaking
- Presentation skills
- Networking
- CV and cover letter support
- LinkedIn profile building
- Spring week applications
- Internship applications
- Graduate scheme applications
- Psychometric test preparation
- Assessment centre preparation
- Behavioural interviews
- Technical interviews
- Case interviews
- Commercial awareness
- Offer decision strategy
- Long-term career strategy
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Content creation
- Event management
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 strong track record in university admissions and is expanding into career coaching.
- Blue Education has a student base, a trusted brand in university admissions, early career coaching success cases, and a network of part-time coaches.