Are you looking for a career with flexible hours, interesting and engaging work, and a competitive salary? Ivy Scholars is looking for talented and passionate people, people just like you.
If you are interested in any of these positions, please send your resume and cover letter to contact@ivyscholars.com
We are looking to hire full time mentors for our students. You would work with students one-on-one, in a flexible, fully remote, full-time capacity. If you love working with students, helping them explore academic and extracurricular passions, and are looking for a flexible and supportive work environment, then you’re exactly who we’re looking for.
Work hours are flexible, as we work with students around the globe. As these are high school students, the job does entail meetings in the afternoons and evenings, and on weekends, in order to meet their schedules. The job is year-round, but there is a busy period when college application deadlines draw nigh.
Role and Responsibilities:
What we’re looking for in applicants:
Your experience matters, and we’ve hired mentors of diverse backgrounds, each bringing their unique skill-set to the team. We look for applicants with the proper experience, who will also work well with the team we’ve created.
Your total maximum compensation will be $96,750 per year broken down as follows:
If you are interested in applying for this position, please send your resume and cover letter to contact@ivyscholars.com We can’t wait to hear from you.
We are looking to hire part-time research mentors for our advanced students. In this role, you would act as a research supervisor for a project done by the student. You would work one-on-one with these students, guiding them through the entire research process; generating a research question, performing a literature review, analysis, writing, and publication.
We have high standards for our students, and the work they do, and understand this is necessary. Your own name will go on these papers, so we make sure they are all well done, and students actually do all of the work. We have a strong academic honesty policy students in the program must follow.
This work is all done remotely, and requires flexibility in scheduling, with meetings often in evenings or on weekends. This is part time work, though research mentors do sometimes transition to full-time college application mentors as well.
Roles and responsibilities:
What we’re looking for in applicants:
Your total maximum compensation will be $96,750 per year broken down as follows:
If you are interested in applying to this position, please send your cover letter and CV to contact@ivyscholars.com We’re looking forward to hearing from you.
Ivy Scholars is an educational consulting company. We help students at every stage of their educational careers, and with all kinds of problems. Read more here.
I mean, we think working here is pretty great, we wouldn’t be writing this otherwise. It is work of course, and can be intellectually challenging; but that challenge is what makes it fun. If you want the challenge, to learn new things and try new things and explore new horizons each day, then this may be a great opportunity for you.
We’re looking for people who already have some experience working with students, and who enjoy doing so. If you don’t like working with high school students, then this isn’t a great job for you, and that’s fine. Not every job is right for everyone, and we wish you luck finding a position that suits your own talents.
Our students generally range from 8th-12th graders with occasional middle school students or college freshmen. The average student begins in their sophomore year. Student’s gender ratios are equal, demographically our students are 50% Asian, 40% Caucasian, 10% African American, Hispanic, Native peoples etc for Ivy Scholars.
Geographically our students are from 40% American south, 20% east coast, 15% west coast, 15% Asia, 10% Europe. 30% of our American parents are first generation.
90% of IS parents make between $200,000-800,000 per year.
The average GPA is 3.8, with 80% of students being in the top 20% of their class. 90% of our students take AP or IB courses, around 50% are at the highest course rigor for their school. The average SAT/ACT scores for students are 1400/30; students applying to tier 1 universities generally fall into the average interquartile range.
We work with over 100 students each year, around 70% of whom target Ivy League ro other tier 1 schools. Most of our students target schools in the top three tiers, though others target top regional universities like Texas A&M. We are not the right firm for universities outside the top 100.
Expect to communicate with students weekly, a supervisor every two weeks, and parents monthly in a standard engagement. Communications happen virtually, by email, text, call, or video conference. Expect most meetings to be recorded, and for your supervisor to review these in order to provide feedback.
Your supervisor will provide close support on any issues you have with parents or students, and we have a set and tested policy for escalating issues.
You will meet with students during the academic week in the afternoon and on weekends. The company is based in Central time, but we work with students from multiple timezones. You are expected to have availability on weekends and later than the standard working days. The hours you work are flexible.
You will work with an average caseload of 8-15 students. These will require an average of one hour per week apiece, though some engagements are more involved, and some less. Ivy Scholars is seasonal; during the last third of the year you can expect to work for 50 to 60 hours per week, and around 35 hours per week in the first two thirds. Two thirds of your hours worked (or more) will be billable to students, the remainder will be prep time, research, collaboration with colleagues, or other back-end work.
Candidacy building, test prep, and academic coaching are all-year services, while college apps run from June through December, which causes the seasonal peak
We offer a suite of academic services, which you will be expected to engage with in different ways. We will list them all here for reference.
Transfer student advising
CEO Sasha Chada’s interview with Voyage Houston sums this up succinctly.
Our headquarters is located in Houston, but our mentors live across the US, and we work remotely primarily.
We use GSuite (Docs, Classroom, Gmail, Calendar), Zoom, Teachworks, Asana, Acuity, and Read.AI.
Training takes three months. The first two weeks are full time training, followed by two weeks of part time training. Thai consists of reviewing our internal curriculum materials, reading our guides to working with students, and familiarizing yourself with our technology. You will meet regularly with your supervisor and coworkers to learn from them. You then begin working with students in a part time and support role, and we make sure that the first students you work with are easy engagements. The next two months of student work are done under close supervision, and with extended support from your supervisor.
Ivy Scholars’ revenues come from the billable hours it sells to parents. In our company, adhering to ethical principles is a side constraint to maximizing your billable hours. Before considering your and the company’s profit motive to maximize billable hours, you should follow our prime directive: Ivy Scholars must always add value for anything it bills for. It can’t bill for anything that doesn’t directly benefit the student. If you’ve spent time on something that didn’t end up benefiting the student, or added value that was disproportionately small compared to the amount of time you spent adding the value, talk to Sasha or your manager to help you reconcile the issue – but never let unproductive time get billed to parents. It’s not fair, and it’s against our company’s culture.
Remember, parents are allowed to request an audit log of all the times you spent on Teachworks that they are billed for. Read this entire section carefully, and discuss with Sasha, to be sure your timekeeping and notes will stand up to scrutiny!
Please be careful what you bill to parents and what you bill to the company. If parents are billed for things that don’t directly add value to their child, we will have failed in our ethical duties, and they will feel Ivy Scholars is not treating them fairly. When in doubt, please ask Sasha whether or not to bill a specific item to a family or as Other Event.
Pay is disbursed twice a month, on the 1st and 15th. A bonus is given annually in December, and raises are determined in January, for performance and retention. Pay begins at $60 per hour.
Expenses may be reimbursed, but you must submit a request ahead of time for these.
See past students’ essays, case studies, and Sasha’s podcast appearance.
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