Student Success Coach (Remote)

| Greater Denver Area
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Guild is hiring Student Success Coaches. As a Student Success Coach (“SSC”), you unlock potential in our students. Guild strives to support the journeys of millions of working adult students, and our team is accountable to measurable success for those students. As a part of a team building a world-class experience, you will be coaching and supporting students from across the country, helping them navigate the challenges of work, school, and life as they pursue education programs in an online setting.

Our students are the center of what we do — we listen to them, advocate on their behalf, and make decisions with them in mind. Reflecting this principle, we provide a robust coaching experience for our students. Our proprietary Coaching Certification is influenced by the Co-Active coaching model, and all Guild coaches are internally trained and certified to ensure a quality experience for our students.

As a Student Success Coach, you will:

  • Coach your students, adhering to Guild’s Core Coaching Beliefs
  • Build and manage supportive, welcoming, and inclusive coaching relationships with diverse group of online students, primarily through synchronous phone communications, supported by email and text messaging
  • Use empathy and deep listening skills to create space for students to explore and discover their goals and strengths. Coaches will help students navigate systems, plan, set goals, and create an environment for self-empowerment during their educational journey
  • Provide a judgment-free experience for students, recognizing each student as a whole person, and understanding their outstanding, diverse experiences and backgrounds as relevant and necessary to guide them toward their goals
  • Celebrate your students’ successes, and honor their inevitable stumbles, giving them a person in their corner along the way
  • Manage the operational elements of your student caseload in a consistent and effective manner
  • Create and maintain effective communication strategies for your students that demonstrate that they are valued and supported, and that establish and maintain engaging relationships with them
  • Use business tools and systems (CRM, contact center software, data dashboards) to supervise student progress, maintain high levels of responsiveness, and flag concerns to ensure a world-class experience
  • Learn and follow established processes and procedures, performing your day-to-day job duties without compliance issues
  • Learn Guild’s proprietary coaching techniques, and improve your coaching capability through ongoing learning and development
  • Complete Guild’s coaching training and certification process to become a certified Guild coach
  • Participate in internal training, as well as peer feedback and coaching sessions, in order to meet team and individual student engagement and satisfaction targets
  • Develop an in-depth knowledge of effective coaching techniques, tools, and frameworks to further refine your ability to help your students to succeed

Ideal candidate will have:

Required Proficiencies

  • Dedication to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment
  • Ability to proactively and consistently develop and maintain positive relationships with students and teammates
  • Strong listening and communication skills, with the ability to adjust your style across a diverse set of conversations and individuals
  • Basic technical literacy, enabling you to learn new tools and systems that we use to coach our students
  • Natural curiosity and desire to learn new skills, explore new ideas, and take an individual and independent approach to learning, problem solving, self-monitoring, and self-correcting
  • Passion for our dual mission to both change education in America while building a successful, high-growth company

Preferred Proficiencies

  • 2+ years of experience in a role in which mentoring, developing and establishing relationships, or supporting individuals one-on-one is a primary function
  • Experience in an environment where there is frequent change and a need to demonstrate and act with a sense of urgency
  • Experience in a contact center environment; deal with metrics, tools, systems, and accountability

About Guild:

Guild is growing economic mobility for working adults by partnering with the largest employers in the country to offer education as a benefit to their employees via our marketplace of nonprofit universities and education institutions. Guild’s proprietary technology platform facilitates the administration of this innovative benefit and our team of coaches helps each employee navigate the path back to school, providing individualized support from day one through program completion.

Guild is a female-led, Certified B Corporation - and with a valuation of $3.8 billion is one of the highest-valued, privately held education companies in the world, and the only one led by a woman. Guild's investors include Ken Chenault, General Catalyst Partners, chairman and former CEO of American Express, Emerson, LeadEdge Capital, and Iconiq.

Guild Education is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an expansive environment for all employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let your recruiter know. Additionally, we feel passionately about equal pay for equal work, and transparency in compensation is one vehicle to achieve that. Total compensation for this role is market driven, including a base salary of $50,000-$51,500, as well as company stock options.

  • Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
  • Access to a 401k to help save for the future
  • We provide 3 weeks of vacation in the first year and an open vacation policy after year 1 to help recharge
  • We provide 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
  • We provide family-friendly benefits, including 14 weeks of parental leave, employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, and fertility care benefits.
  • We provide well-rounded wellness benefits including access to free and low cost mental health resources and support services
  • We offer education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
  • Something else? Wonderful, we’re curious to learn more about you!

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Our downtown Denver office is easily accessible via public transportation, with plenty of restaurants in the surrounding area.

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