Strategist & Early Education Specialist

About the role

The Rise Strategy Team at Crimson Rise is seeking innovative educators passionate about shaping the future of learning. As a Strategy Consultant, you will work directly with young students and their parents to develop and execute academic, extracurricular, and personal growth goals. As an Early Education Specialist, you will provide specialized guidance to parents and children during the early years.

Responsibilities

• Create, maintain, and ensure execution on 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 ensure execution on developmental roadmaps
• Advising on curriculum selection and pros/cons of public, private, boarding, online, and homeschool
• Selecting courses, activities, summer programs, and super-curricular programs
• Ideating advanced capstone projects that can scale throughout high school
• Building advanced competitions plans that span high school
• Optimizing recommendations for university admissions based on shifting trends and student’s location, background, resources, and strengths
• Guide students in pre-college academic strategy, including: - Assessing academic performance and proposing improvement/growth solutions
• Advising on curriculum selection and pros/cons of public, private, boarding, online, and homeschool
• Selecting courses, activities, summer programs, and super-curricular programs
• Ideating advanced capstone projects that can scale throughout high school
• Building advanced competitions plans that span high school
• Optimizing 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, including - Organization, time management, goal-setting, and study skills
• Guided interest identification and career research
• Guided project brainstorming and activities selection
• Tailored reading lists and guidance on vocabulary improvement
• Introduction to university admissions and expectations
• Reflections on priorities, interests, motivators, strengths, and stress management
• Helping students become healthy, clear-minded thinkers confident in inherent value and able to engage passionately with their interests and the world around
• Support sales and marketing teams across Crimson in understanding / presenting the Rise program to prospective clients
• Provide specialized, education-centric guidance to parents and children during early years (0-10 years old), including: - Early childhood school selection and curriculum choice (comparing systems like Montessori, Reggio, Waldorf, bilingual immersion, traditional)
• 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
• Support planning and development of pre-Rise services for 0-10 year-olds, including: - Participation in sales consults, trainings, or speaking engagements
• Supporting internal training and sales/marketing questions
• Creating resources or collateral which may be scaled for future Strategists

Requirements

• 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 start up, 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!)

Pychologist 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!

Department

Enrichment

Locations

New York, Chicago, Austin, Philadelphia, California, Washington

Remote status

Fully Remote