College Access Coach

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🕒 June 24

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Let's Get Ready

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 1998

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Education • Non-profit • Social Impact

Let's Get Ready is an organization that focuses on providing college preparation support for high school and college students, particularly those from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The organization offers resources like SAT preparation, goal-setting strategies, and ongoing college persistence support through innovative communication methods. With a strong emphasis on accessibility, Let's Get Ready works to ensure that students, many of whom are first-generation college attendees, have the guidance and tools they need to succeed in their educational journeys.

📋 Description

• Reporting to a Program Manager, College Access Coaches are dynamic and motivated undergraduate students who virtually support high school students in their journeys to college. • Respond to student text messages received on our texting platform Mainstay within 24 hours • Check Mainstay messaging platform daily, at minimum an hour a day to ensure all messages are seen and being responded to • Provide engaging support to students, including advice, resources and encouragement around topics such as: completing tasks to apply for college, completing financial applications, enrolling into a college, talking to their guidance counselor, accessing academic support, school-work-life balance, and other obstacles • Offer a college perspective - sharing relevant stories from your experience as a college student to help students navigate their own journey • Send relevant tip sheets from LGR curriculum and guide students to make good use the school resources available to them • Develop warm rapport with students and ask follow-up questions, with the goals of increasing program engagement and supporting matriculation and persistence in college • Creatively develop relationships with a caseload of students by sending individualized text messages and emails with additional resources • Complete virtual learning modules (LGR360) in a timely manner, which cover topics such as culturally responsive mentorship, active listening, and how to facilitate student goal setting • Conduct mandatory monthly check-in calls via phone/video to students for further assistance with the college access process • Track communication with mentees using our Salesforce data platform • Attend weekly supervision meetings (video) with Program Manager to discuss progress towards goals, quality of engagement with students, troubleshoot issues, flag urgent/sensitive situations, and plan for the upcoming week • Participate in mandatory monthly coach meetings for professional development and to discuss critical programmatic updates

🎯 Requirements

• Must be a current undergraduate student or have graduated within the past 1–2 years • Be extremely comfortable building rapport virtually via phone calls, email, text messaging, live video streams, etc • Have exceptional relationship-building ability across personality and identity differences and be effective in communicating with warmth and empathy • Have time management, attention to detail, and organizational and problem-solving skills • Able to navigate multiple, new technology platforms • Balance result-driven work with a personable approach • Be comfortable working independently and collaboratively in a virtual environment • Must be able to commit to the position for the full school year with summer employment included (August 2026 through August 2027)

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements • Professional development opportunities