Strategist & Early Education Specialist
About the role
The Rise Strategy Team at Crimson Rise is dedicated to equipping young students globally with the tools to compete on the world stage. As a strategist or early education specialist, you will work closely with students and their families to develop and execute academic, extracurricular, and personal growth goals.
Responsibilities
- Create, maintain, and execute strategic roadmaps
- Lead a team of experts to support the execution of these roadmaps
- Identify age-appropriate, interest-aligned competitions and activities
- Communicate the latest university admissions trends
- Partner with parents to ensure a quality service experience and tangible growth
- Create, maintain, and execute developmental roadmaps
- Advising on curriculum selection and pros/cons of public, private, boarding, online, and homeschool
- Select courses, activities, summer programs, and super-curricular programs
- Ideate advanced capstone projects that can scale throughout high school
- Build advanced competitions plans that span high school
- Optimize recommendations for university admissions based on shifting trends and student’s location, background, resources, and strengths
- Provide holistic, consultant-led coaching to students 1:1
- Guide students in pre-college academic strategy
- Advising on early childhood school selection, curriculum choice, and application processes
- Advising on developmental milestones, at-home enrichment activities, language acquisition strategies, and early academic strategy in literacy, writing, and mathematics
- Identify early-stage extracurricular exposure, competitions pathways, personal projects, and summer programming that lay the groundwork for future projects
- Identify and vet localized partner services (tutoring, extracurriculars) where relevant
- Provide specialized, education-centric guidance to parents and children during early years (0-10 years old)
- Early childhood school selection and curriculum choice
- Early developmental milestones (cognitive, language, motor, social-emotional), along with at-home activities and family habits to support development
- Early childhood language acquisition strategy, centered around family goals and culture
- Identification and vetting of local, in-person tutoring or extracurricular services to support execution of overarching strategy
- Building and maintaining a personalized development roadmap, with regular strategy alignment sessions
Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree from a Top 30 US or Top 20 UK university
- 5+ years of professional working experience
- 3+ years of experience educating, coaching, or working with 6–14-year-olds; comfortable working directly with parents as the primary client
- Deep fluency in early childhood education philosophies and elementary school landscape
- PREFERRED - Leadership experience in early childhood or elementary education (e.g., Head of Lower School, Director of an early childhood program)
Skills
- Ability to translate developmental + pedagogical expertise into clear, actionable insights
- Research and analysis
- Global awareness and cross-cultural communication
- Solution orientation
- Collaborative mindset
- Creative thinking under pressure
Benefits
Rapidly growing startup with a flexible working environment where you will be empowered to structure how you work. Limitless development and exposure - our internal promotions/role changes made up 33% of all recruitment last year. $1000 individual training budget per year, we love to 'Level Up' (it’s one of our core values)! Psychologist on staff. Insightful fireside chats and workshops to help support our high-performing and ambitious team. Radical Candor is a feedback approach we live by. We’re a global player with 28 markets (and growing) across the globe. Most roles have the option to work from one of our many offices or remotely!
Pay
Competitive salary and benefits package
Schedule
Full-time, remote position