Career Coach

We are looking for a Career Coach who cares deeply about helping professionals identify and pursue a career they align with.

About our company: - we are a web-based platform used to guide professionals through a step-by-step process of learning & reflection to clarify your ideal career path. From there, we guide a professional through upskilling decisions, improving personal branding, and efficiently job searching to land a role you’ll love.
- Our company enables job fit early on, reduces job-hopping and improves work engagement, productivity, wellbeing, and wealth potential so that individuals, their companies, economies, and societies thrive. We are looking to add an additional Career Coach to our team that will drive this mission forward.
- Mission: Waking up the world to remember you can and should find a job you love
- Vision: Top-notch career support for every working professional at every step in your journey
- Accolades - NSF I Corps Grant, NYU Venture Fellow, NYU InnoVention Competition Winner, $10K raised on iFundWomen; Bootstrapped, Fourthwave Accelerator participant
- Core values/Culture - We value practicing what we preach (do what you’re great at), transparency, direct/frequent/proactive communication, giving & receiving feedback, iterating processes to strengthen outcomes, scrappiness, balancing efficiency with quality, avoiding the myth of multitasking, prioritizing to help us focus, operations, systemization, and measuring impact.

Mission of the Position:
- Serve as the fourth career coach at our company to continue running our value-added coaching services with clients
- Deliver high value coaching to clients to enable them to efficiently, effectively resolve career challenges and reach their goals (re: career clarity, deciding on upskilling opportunities, strengthening personal branding, job searching intentionally, and developing along overall career path)
- Support clients with holistic mindset coaching, accountability, and practical strategies
- Use your product-oriented nature to identify areas for improvement on our digital tools to improve client outcomes and support the future of our products
- Support the evolution of our coaching processes to ensure they balance consistency, scalability, and customization for our small group of coaches & future coaches

Responsibilities:

- Initial Training:
- Train/shadow with CEO & Founder to learn our novel process for career exploration, and our guidance/frameworks around making upskilling decisions, improving personal branding, job searching, and overall career management

- Understand the coaching fundamentals that makes our novel exploration process work (iterative learning and reflection; action based; user driven; open ended; interests-based)
- Train on sales processes to learn our approach for meeting with prospective clients; be comfortable and willing to run calls with prospective clients in addition to coaching calls with current clients
- Learn, observe, ask questions, notice improvement areas

- Coaching: 
- Coach clients to guide them through career exploration, upskilling, personal branding, job search, career management, etc
- Review clients’ work on their career platform and provide feedback via email/text
- Review clients’ questions and reply via email/text
- Meet with CEO & team on weekly basis to review client scenarios, challenges, continue building out procedures / process improvements

Future Possibilities:
- Support thought leadership, content, and marketing to bring unique career guidance to the public
- Help build out, run, and oversee a full career coach department
- Work with our product team to innovate and design new features to improve our platform as a mechanism to enhance clients' outcomes
- Be a key leader on our leadership team to improve our offerings, outcomes, and value

- Qualifications & Skills:
- ICF Certified, ACC - 1-2 years experience with career coaching (job searching, networking, personal branding/materials, etc)
- Comfort & experience in startups
- Interest & comfort with technology/digital tools to complement coaching
- Interest in growing with a team for 1+ years
- Interest in learning & improving upon others’ coaching practices
- Would need to have capacity to set weekly hours between 8am-6pm est M-F - Open to start at 5-10 hours/week to start & grow into 20-25 hours/week over the course of time
- Passion for helping individuals find clarity in their ideal career direction - Interest in learning about, using, and improving tech/digital coaching tools
- Scalability mindset
- Interest in and ability to see the value and benefit from systematizing, documenting, and streamlining, to more easily guide clients through common challenges

Compensation:
- Training Pay - $1K for 10 hours/week for 1 month
- Ongoing Pay - $30/hour
- Flexible work schedule - Work from anywhere flexibility

Disclaimer: - This document is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of employees holding the position. This description nor completion of tasks associated with this title is not a contract of employment. This job description reflects management's assignment of essential functions, and nothing herein restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. We are proud and committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal or state, or local law. M/F/D/V/LGBTQ+
Company Description:

Kindred Communications is boutique direct-hire placement headhunting firm with a focus on diversity and inclusion tech placement. We strive to diversify the workforce once placement at a time.