Crimson Education Looking for Director, Extra Curricular Learning and Development at Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Full Time

New Zealand-based Edutech company Crimson Education was founded in 2013 from the idea that through personalised education, we can transform students into the world leaders of tomorrow. Since then, we have rapidly grown a mission-driven team that is dedicated to building the education system for the 22nd century. Our network includes 2,400 tutors and consultants worldwide who work with over 20,000 students.

Our tech platform connects tutors and mentors to high school students aiming to achieve admission and scholarships to top universities in the US, Canada, UK, and beyond.

What this role is responsible for:

Maximize student engagement, learning and admissions outcomes through the design and execution of extra curricular projects. The service should meaningfully improve Crimson students chances of acceptance by 3x the national/international rates, and provide interim milestones to track progress.

What your work entails:

Outcomes

• Make ECL a must-add service for Core students around the world by enhancing and regionalizing our current ECL product.
• Align US ECL with our successful Academic Enrichment product, ensuring appropriate subject specific pathways to support students in carving out a personal narrative through their activities.
• Design and implement a structured curriculum that can be personalised to the student’s interests, but also provides guaranteed interim deliverables for parent progress updates.
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and SD teams to achieve revenue goals and create more ECL offerings relevant to students’ interests and needs.
• Recruit and grow a team of professional advisers that work hand-in-hand with student teams and take ownership of projects from beginning to end.
• High client satisfaction through a seamless delivery of services (adviser allocated within 48 hrs, first session in 14 days of allocation, check-in points to ensure progress and identify roadblocks early on)
• Develop local ECL resources for strategy teams to further students’ gains and learnings in core sessions

Competencies

• Has passion and ownership for the product, knowing its impact on student outcomes
• Experience with project and/or people management
• Willingness to innovate and push the boundaries of old services
• Excellent communicator who is constantly seeking feedback to improve
• Can zoom in and out balancing the needs of individual regions with a global vision
• Attracts industry professionals to join the team and stay with us
• High level of autonomy to carry out work without supervision
• Sets high expectations in oneself and the team to ensure that each client has deliverables according to their timeline
• Tenacity and grit to pivot when needed and deliver in difficult situations

Why work for Crimson?

• 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)!
• 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!

If you’re passionate about growing in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, and want to work with cutting-edge technology then we’d love to hear from you!

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