Senior Student Counsellor

Manifest Global; Ahmedabad District; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Manifest Global’s EduGo Abroad platform seeks a dedicated counsellor to guide Indian students and families through the European education landscape. You will own relationships from first contact through enrolment and visa outcomes, translating backgrounds into realistic European options and supporting interview preparation and applications.

You will manage premium profiles with personalised, consistent communication, ensuring a seamless, trusted journey from inquiry to offer and beyond.

Qualifications

• Counselling and relationship management with prospective students and families.
• Ability to translate student profiles into realistic European university options.
• Guidance through interview prep and admission journey from shortlist to offer.

Responsibilities

• Own counselling relationships for a portfolio of students and families.
• Translate academic background, budget, and ambitions into matched European options.
• Guide students through interview prep, application, and enrolment milestones.
• Manage premium student profiles with personalized responsiveness.
• Act as single point of contact across the full admission journey, ensuring continuity.

Job description

Manifest Global empowers in building companies that connect the world towards growth, prosperity, and innovation. Our portfolio includes trailblazer brands such as Cialfo, BridgeU, Explore, and Kaaiser, which are dedicated to expanding global student mobility by serving their respective stakeholders in the ecosystem.

Our Mission

To create a world where every student, regardless of their ethnicity, nationality, socio-economic status, and learning preference, gets equal access to higher education through our world-class network of portfolio brands; a network that globally connects community stakeholders that provide the finest resources and support material, anywhere in the world and at any time.

What This Role Is

Every year, tens of thousands of Indian students decide they want to study in Europe, and most of them are making that decision with almost nothing to go on. Unlike the well-worn paths to the US, UK, or Australia, Europe's university systems, visa rules, and application timelines vary by country, and until recently there was no single place in India built specifically to make sense of it. Families take out loans, sell assets, or bet a year of a child's life on a decision they are navigating largely in the dark.

EduGo Abroad exists to close that gap. As India's only platform dedicated specifically to European education, it has spent over fifteen years building the trust, the university relationships, and the process knowledge that a fragmented, agent‑by‑agent market never had. That trust is not abstract. It shows up as thousands of students who have already been placed, and thousands more currently mid‑decision, each one needing someone who can turn a confusing set of options into a clear, confident next step.

This role sits at the point where that trust is either earned or lost. You are the person a student and their family actually talk to, week after week, from the first conversation about what's possible through to the day they get on a plane. Everything EduGo has built as a platform, network, and reputation runs through the quality of that conversation.

At the highest level, this role owns the full counselling relationship with a portfolio of students, from first contact through to enrolment and visa outcome.

What Makes This Role Different

Most study‑abroad counselling in India happens through agents who work by referral fee and volume, with limited real accountability for whether a student ends up in the right programme. EduGo counsellors work differently: you are backed by direct university partnerships, a dedicated European course database, and a platform built to remove friction rather than add it. You are not selling a generic "study abroad" dream. You are the specialist in one continent, which means you can go deeper, faster, and with more credibility than a generalist agent ever could.

As part of Manifest Global, this role also sits inside a broader ecosystem of study‑abroad expertise: Kaaiser's decades of counselling experience in the India-to-Australia corridor, Cialfo's platform trust with schools, and the shared operating discipline of a group that has scaled this exact playbook before. No standalone European education agency in India has that depth behind it.

The broader overseas education industry is contracting. EduGo is growing.

What You Own

Student and parent counselling

• Own the counselling relationship with an assigned portfolio of prospective students and their families
• Translate each student's academic background, budget, and ambitions into a realistic, well‑matched set of European university and course options
• Guide students through interview preparation and every stage of the admission process, from shortlist to offer

Premium and high‑value accounts

• Own a subset of premium student profiles with an elevated standard of responsiveness and personalisation
• Act as the single point of contact across the full application and admission journey, so no student is passed between people mid‑decision

Pipeline and conversion

• Drive each lead from first counselling conversation through application, conversion, and enrolment
• Identify where conversion is slipping in your own pipeline and adjust your approach — follow‑up cadence, objection handling, positioning — rather than waiting to be told
• Ensure every interaction, follow