Career Coaching Lead - Full Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Build and scale the career coaching business

• 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.
• Help 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.

Manage students and outcomes

• Oversee support for students applying to spring weeks, internships, graduate schemes, and other competitive opportunities.
• Personally deliver 1:1 coaching where appropriate, especially for high-priority students.
• Spend approximately 20-30% of your time on direct coaching, with the majority focused on build-out, management, and quality control.
• Ensure students receive clear, practical, high-standard guidance.
• Track progress, outcomes, and success stories.

Manage and grow the coach network

• Manage our existing network of part-time coaches.
• Recruit additional high-quality part-time coaches from relevant professional backgrounds.
• 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 from day one.

Lead campus-facing brand-building

• Represent Blue Education at university campuses, student events, webinars, and workshops.
• Deliver high-quality talks on careers, applications, internships, and graduate recruitment.
• Work with sales and marketing colleagues to shape events, campaigns, and student-facing messaging.
• Build credibility with students at top UK universities.
• Help position Blue Education as a serious player in university-to-career support.

Work cross-functionally

• Collaborate with admissions consultants, mentors, sales, and marketing teams.
• Provide insight into what students need and what the market is demanding.
• Help create content, guides, workshops, and event materials where needed.
• Use student feedback and results to continuously improve the product.

Who We Are Looking For

You should be someone who wants to build, not just advise.

You may currently be in investment banking, consulting, finance, professional services, graduate recruitment, career coaching, education, or a startup-style role. What matters most is that you understand ambitious students, competitive careers, and high-performance professional environments.

You should be comfortable moving between strategy and execution: one day shaping the overall product, another day reviewing a student’s CV, briefing a coach, speaking to 100 students at a university event, or fixing an operational issue in the delivery process.

Non-Negotiable 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 at once.
• Entrepreneurial mindset: you are comfortable building, testing, iterating, and owning results.
• Strong project management ability.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• High standards, strong judgment, and the ability to work directly with senior leadership.

Nice to Have

• Experience coaching students or graduates into competitive roles.
• Experience with spring weeks, internships, graduate schemes, assessment centres, or case interviews.
• Experience organizing university events, workshops, or campus campaigns.
• Experience managing freelancers, mentors, tutors, or part-time professionals.
• Knowledge of UK and international student markets.
• Mandarin Chinese language ability or experience working with international students.

What Success Looks Like

In the first 6-12 months, success means:

• 50-100 students signed up for career coaching support.
• Career coaching becoming a core part of Blue Education’s business.
• A high-quality student delivery system in place.
• A strong and reliable network of part-time career coaches.
• Clear success stories from students applying to competitive roles.
• A growing campus presence and stronger brand recognition among university students.
• A service that can scale beyond individual ad hoc coaching.

This Role Is Not For You If

• You only want to do 1:1 coaching and do not want to build a business line.
• You need a highly structured corporate environment.
• You are uncomfortable speaking publicly or representing the company at events.
• You do not understand competitive graduate recruitment.
• You are unwilling to manage operational details.
• You do not want to recruit, manage, and coordinate part-time coaches.
• You prefer pure strategy over hands-on execution.

Why Join

This is a chance to build a new business line from a strong starting point.

Blue Education already has a student base, a trusted brand in university admissions, early career coaching success cases, and a network of part-time coaches. We now need someone to take ownership and turn this into a major part of the company.

You will work directly with the founder, have real ownership from day one, and help shape how ambitious students move from top universities into competitive careers.

For the right person, this is an opportunity to build something substantial.