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About the Role
Crimson Education is seeking passionate mentors with strong subject expertise and a proven ability to guide students in crafting clear, original, and compelling arguments for the John Locke Essay Competition. You will help ambitious students sharpen their critical thinking, refine essay structure, and produce standout submissions.
Responsibilities
- Deliver high-quality, rigorous tutoring sessions for students preparing for John Locke competitions.
- Customize guidance to each student’s skill level and competition goals, focusing on building original arguments, critical thinking, and clarity of expression.
- Teach essay strategy, developing thesis statements, structuring arguments, engaging with counterarguments, and integrating evidence effectively across philosophy, politics, economics, or history.
- Provide detailed, constructive feedback on drafts to help students refine ideas, strengthen analysis, and elevate their writing.
- Support students through the full essay process, from brainstorming and question selection to outlining, drafting, and final polishing.
- Maintain consistent communication between sessions, tracking progress, setting writing milestones, and offering guidance on readings, research, and past winning essays.
Requirements
- Strong expertise in one or more John Locke subject areas (e.g., law, philosophy, politics, economics, history, psychology, or theology).
- Excellent analytical and academic writing skills.
- Experience with the John Locke Institute Essay Competition or similar high-level essay competitions as a participant, tutor, or coach.
- Strong communication, organisation, and mentoring skills.
- At least 10 hours of availability per week.
- Proficient in additional languages is a plus.
Skills
- Subject expertise
- Argumentation
- Critical thinking
- Essay structure
- Thesis development
- Argument structuring
- Evidence integration
- Academic writing
- Communication
- Organisation
- Mentoring
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Fully remote
- Flexible hours
Experience Level
- 10 hours of availability per week
Education Level
- Master’s degree preferred
- Exceptional Bachelor’s graduates from Top 15 US / Top 10 UK universities may be considered
Benefits
- Work with driven, high-achieving students across the US, UK, Asia, and beyond.
- Opportunity to make real impact — guiding the next generation of Olympiad medalists.
About the Company
- Crimson Education is the world’s leading college admissions consulting firm, with over 1,490 Ivy League offers and 2,410 to the US Top 15.
- We help ambitious students gain admission to the world’s top universities through expert-led guidance and proven, data-driven strategies.
- Crimson students are 7x more likely to get into the Ivy League than their peers.
- We were recently featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.
- Crimson is the only college admissions consultancy that brings together former Ivy League and Top 20 admissions officers, professors and PhD teaching fellows from leading universities, past ISEF winners and judges, and capstone project mentors.
- We’re backed by leading VC firms, including Tiger Global, Heal Partners, IceHouse Ventures, and Movac.
- Recently closed a USD $40M Series D funding round at a USD $640M valuation.
- Operate across 21 markets worldwide, including the US, Canada, UK, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand.