Career Coaching Lead

Blue Education; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Performance bonus

Job summary

Blue Education in London is seeking a Career Coaching Lead to build and scale its career coaching offering for students targeting top universities and competitive internships in the UK and abroad.

You will work with the founder to turn early success into a scalable service, manage a network of part-time coaches, and lead campus-facing brand activities, with a strong emphasis on execution and commercial growth.

Qualifications

• 3-6 years in investment banking, consulting, finance, or similar high-performance environments.
• Strong understanding of competitive graduate recruitment.
• Excellent public speaking and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple students, coaches, deadlines and outcomes.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with comfort building, testing and owning results.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale the career coaching business.
• Manage students and outcomes.
• Grow the coach network.
• Lead campus-facing brand-building.
• Work cross-functionally with admissions, mentors, sales and marketing.

Skills

Public speaking

Networking

Project management

Coaching

English proficiency

Job description

Compensation：£60,000-£85,000 base salary, plus performance bonus and equity

Reports to Founder / CEO

Location: London, hybrid

Type: Full-time

About The Role

We are looking for a Career Coaching Lead to help build and scale the career coaching business at Blue Education.

Blue Education is a university admissions consultancy working with ambitious students aiming for top universities in the UK and globally. Over the past few years, many of our students have progressed to leading universities, and we are now seeing strong early success in helping students move from university admissions into competitive careers.

We have already started supporting students with applications for internships, spring weeks, graduate schemes and early-career opportunities. We have success cases and stories already. The next step is to turn this into a serious, scalable business line.

This is not a traditional careers adviser role. We are looking for someone entrepreneurial, commercially minded and highly execution-focused: someone who understands competitive graduate recruitment, can coach ambitious students, manage a network of part-time coaches, build systems, speak confidently at university campuses, and work directly with the founder to turn career coaching into a core part of the business.

The ideal candidate will likely have 3-6 years of experience in investment banking, consulting, finance, or another high-performance professional environment, and will understand what it takes for students to break into competitive industries.

What You Will Build

The career coaching offer will initially be high-touch and intensive, focused on 1:1 support for students. Over time, you will help us productise and scale what works.

The initial emphasis will be on students applying to spring weeks, internships, graduate schemes and competitive early-career opportunities. This includes students at top UK universities, international students already studying in the UK, Blue Education alumni, and sixth-form students who want to start early.

Finance and consulting will be important starting points. However, the service will not be limited to those areas. We also want to support students interested in technology, engineering, data science, AI, startups and other STEM-related careers. You do not need to be an expert in every sector, but you do need to be an excellent generalist, project manager and builder who can coordinate specialist coaches where needed.

Services Covered

• Career direction and sector selection
• CV and cover letter support
• LinkedIn and professional profile building
• Networking strategy
• Spring week, internship and graduate scheme applications
• Psychometric test preparation
• Assessment centre preparation
• Behavioural interviews
• Technical interviews
• Case interviews
• Commercial awareness
• Offer decisions and long-term career strategy

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 judgement 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 organising 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

• 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.