Student Success Mentor

**About us**:
We are building this and this and this
In short, we are building the platform to drive global careers for millennials from emerging economies We work at the exciting intersection of the 2 hottest trends around - edtech & fintech And we love that we succeed as a business while powering the dreams of talented students

**Founder Profile**:
Arnav Kumar is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur. Leap is his second company and he has raised more than $30M in capital for his startups. In his last role, he was a VC investor with SAIF Partners (Now Elevation Capital), which is an early investor in paytm, meesho, urban company, unacademy and many other unicorns. He thinks and tweets about Product, Business Models and Company Building

Vaibhav Singh is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur. He spent his first 6 years at DeutscheBank, across Singapore & Sydney to manage a $3Bn flow book. He has built 2 fintech startups before, as a founding member of CapitalFloat and Incred, both pioneering businesses valued >$500Mn The Leap team has a fine balance of industry experience (edtech, fintech, study abroad) and technical skills (engineering, product, design)

**Roles and responsibilities**:

- Provide end-to-end hand-holding support: Help students transition into the US, develop their profile during the academic program in India such that they are job-ready for the US job market.
- Lead academic liasioning and guidance: Coordinate and facilitate interaction between US university and students, while meeting their academic needs to ensure student retention.
- Curate community-led guidance: Engage and establish relationships with former international students and job-market aspirants to share their experience and advise our students on a regular basis.
- Train students for career-readiness: Design and implement a weekly curriculum to impart necessary soft-skills to students to increase their effectiveness in navigating the job market.
- Develop written self-help resources: Source, structure and create resources to help prospective students develop a resume, create their profile, and make it effective digitally.
- Develop an experienced network of mentors: Plan, and run a parallel learning track of curated guidance from professional mentors on different career tracks and skills required in each career.
- Run a LeapAdvantage Job board: Setup a curated job-board for our students, and update it daily with liasioning support between interested students and employer’s contact person.
- Coach students: Interact with students in an interview format to train them rigorously in the selection processes on a monthly basis, or as per developmental needs of the student.
- Train students on non-academic modules, conduct masterclasses and webinars to drive student engagement.

**Skills and experience**:

- Bachelors’ degree at a minimum, and preferably with 1-2+ years of experience in study-abroad counselling/student mentorship and overall 1-2 years of experience in mentoring/coaching.
- Excellent communication and interaction skills.
- Must be detail-oriented and flexible so as to wear multiple hats that can solve for the problems/needs of our students.
- A hands-on individual with the ability to take initiative, hustle, and build student capacity.
- Experience in supporting students with their career plans and skill development.

**Mutual Respect**:
We love people who are ‘relentlessly resourceful’. Find your way out. Focus on the possibilities instead of the problems.

**Bias for action**:
We take calculated risks backed by data and information available and encourage fail fast to find the best solutions as soon as possible

**Learn & get better**:
Continuous learning and improvement is the key. We don’t stop learning. We treat feedback as a gift and as an opportunity to get better.

**Growth mindset**:
We operate with a growth mindset and not a mindset of fear or judgement. You are in control of your own ability to learn and improve. We love Resilience.