Educational Counselor

Who We Are:
InGenius Prep was founded in 2013 by law students at Harvard and Yale. In that time the company has grown to a team of more than 190 full-time employees 600 part-time employees as well as offices in the U.S. Canada China amongst other countries.

What We Do:
Our primary focus is assisting students in applying to U.S. Colleges and Graduate schools. Our company is fast-paced and exciting. We operate as a team and everyone is given opportunities to advance in the organization.

How Youll Help:
The Educational Counselor is to provide professional educational consultation and academic support to international high school students with diverse cultural backgrounds; innovate the IGP educational counseling services and educational programs to adept to international students with diverse cultural background; build and launch the innovative educational counseling service model to promote international students growth and their college candidacy; and assist students in their high school career and college admissions process by implementing the innovative educational counseling programs and promoting social entrepreneurship.

What Youll Do:

• Conduct effective research on IGP educational counseling service promote innovation in paradigm strategies values and culture in IGP counseling system and launch a new IGP counseling model;
  
• Conduct assessment on students via innovated educational counseling programs and share with fellow Educational Counselors. Assist students and parents/guardians to interpret the assessment result and explore career options;
• Create and build innovative solutions to dramatically improve and promote IGPs educational counseling service system and test and improve the solutions by implementing innovative methods for IGPs strategic growth;
• Plan and launch a new venture in Educational Counseling including providing psychological social and emotional support crisis intervention;
  
• Guide students on the development of their leadership and entrepreneurship skills professional and academic abilities and promote international students cultural integration;
  
• Counsel individual students to help them understand and overcome personal social or behavioral problems affecting their educational or vocational situations;
• Confer with parents or guardians teachers administrators and other InGenius professionals to discuss students progress solve behavioral academic and related problems and determine the priorities for students and their resource in need;
  
• Counsel students regarding college degree programs admission requirements and financial aid opportunities etc.;
  Refer students to degree programs based on interests aptitudes and educational assessments.
  

Youll be a good fit if you:

• A minimum of a masters degree in education with a focus on Entrepreneurship/Innovation in Education or a closely related field;
• A Minimum of 6 months of college application or career planning related experience;
• A strong desire to be creative and innovative in entrepreneurial education;
• Ability to launch an innovative venture and drive innovation in educational counseling;
• Critical academic knowledge and entrepreneurial mindset necessary to create innovative solutions in educational counseling;
• Thorough knowledge in education foundations business essentials and entrepreneurial leaderships;
• Ability to create the next generation of high-impact education programs products and services;
• In-depth knowledge in the connections between education philosophy practice culture and innovation.
• Being mission-driven with the ability to bring to light positive impact to the educational counseling team;
• Ability to utilize entrepreneurial research theories and practices and embed entrepreneurial thinking into educational services;
• Foundational skills necessary to think and behave entrepreneurially within educational systems to solve intractable problems;
• Knowledge of the US education system and college admission process and trends;
• Be able to conduct critical thinking make judgment with logic and reasoning and be keen on identifying potential problems finding solutions and making feasible plans;
• Strong interpersonal communication leadership and organizational skills for working with students parents and team members.

Location:
Los Angeles CA

Benefits:
InGenius Prep offers employees a competitive salary along with paid time off parental leave flexible working hours professional development and a fun collaborative work environment.

What We Believe:
InGenius Prep is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or veteran status.