Senior Associate/Associate Manager- Writing

Athena Education; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Athena Education in Gurgaon is seeking a Writing Associate to infuse college essays and projects with creativity. You will translate a student’s brand into compelling narratives for applications to top universities.

Ideal candidates have exceptional writing skills, experience in editing, and the ability to craft long-form content across essays, scripts, and other creative projects. Join a dynamic, globally-minded team and help students shine in competitive admissions.

Qualifications

• Exceptional writing skills for long-form content.
• Ability to craft essays, narratives, scripts across formats.

Responsibilities

• Drive the essay process by understanding students and translating their brand into compelling college application essays.
• Outline and edit essays with strong structure and style for elite universities.
• Guide students through creative projects including theater scripts, books, and poetry writing.
• Conduct creative workshops to build writing and communication skills.
• Support writing for company public relations and student counseling.

Skills

Exceptional writing

Creative storytelling

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s from top colleges

Job description

Athena is India’s largest and fastest growing organization in the premium undergraduate study abroad space. Founded 10 years ago by two Princeton graduates, Poshak Agrawal and Rahul Subramaniam, Athena is headquartered in Gurgaon, with offices in Mumbai and Bangalore, and caters to students from over 15 countries.

Athena’s vision is to help students become the best version of themselves. Athena’s transformative, holistic life coaching program embraces both depth and breadth, sciences, and the humanities. Athena encourages students to deepen their theoretical knowledge and apply it to address practical issues confronting society, both locally and globally.

Through our flagship program, our students have gotten into various, universities including Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, MIT, Brown, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Chicago, among others.

Our legacy as pioneers in the study-abroad process, coupled with a creative, open environment and professional growth opportunities, makes Athena a perfect place for those looking to build a lasting career in education.

Learn more about Athena:

A Writing Associate will infuse college essays/projects creativity.

This role is for candidates who are looking for highly creative work. If you enjoy working in dynamic educational environments and love expanding the horizons of your linguistic innovation, we look forward to hearing from you!

Key Skills:

• Exceptional writing skills (Long form)
• Multi-Dimensional Creative ability - Stories, Essays, Scripts, etc.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive the essay process of students by understanding students thoroughly, and working with them to translate their brand into an assortment of essays and other facets of the college application
• Ideate and outline essays with excellent content, structure, and style while ensuring that all drafts are polished and ready for submission to elite universities like Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, etc.
• Guide students with various creative projects spanning theater scripts, book writing, poetry writing
• Conduct creative workshops that build writing, communication, and other skills in students
• Support writing for company public relations
• Support with student counseling

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s/ Master’s from top colleges in India and abroad
• Preferred experience 1+ years in writing/editing

Why should you be interested?

Impact

• Working with Athena will provide you with an opportunity to bring about a positive impact in the lives of the best students in the country - the future pioneers of the world.
• Opportunity to mentor budding writers

Team and Culture

• We are a young and daring collection of adventurers dedicated to excellence and growth. We are always efficient and occasionally funny.
• The candidate will get a chance to work in a multicultural environment with ex-pats from different corners of the globe.

Professional Advancement

• We give every opportunity to our team members to grow holistically: grow in their field of interest, and become leaders at early stages of their career.
• Our team comprises creative and diverse people, all goal-oriented, proactive, and looking to transform students’ lives. We love to work hard, play hard! Our work environment encourages you to be an independent thinker, an intellectually curious team member, and be an objective decisionmaker. To top it all, we love to share food!