Senior Team Lead- Education Consulting

Athena Education is India's largest institution in the premium undergraduate study abroad space.

Founded 12 years ago by two Princeton graduates, Poshak Agrawal and Rahul Subramaniam, Athena is headquartered in Gurgaon, with offices in Mumbai and Bangalore, and caters to students from over 30+ countries.

Athena's vision is to help students become the best version of themselves. Athena's transformative, holistic life coaching program embraces both depth and breadth, sciences and the humanities. Athena encourages students to deepen their theoretical knowledge and apply it to address practical issues confronting society, both locally and globally.

Through our flagship program, our students have gotten into various universities including Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, MIT, Brown, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, among others.

Our legacy as pioneers in the study-abroad process, coupled with a creative, open environment and professional growth opportunities, makes Athena a perfect place for those looking to build a lasting career in education.

If you are excited to work in a dynamic educational environment and love expanding your horizons of emotional and strategic counseling, we look forward to hearing from you!

Learn more about Athena:

https://www.athenaeducation.co.in/article.aspx

Summary of the role:

The Senior Manager, Consulting leads a team of 2-3 consultants while overseeing a student pod of 70-75 scholars, ensuring smooth operations and high-impact student outcomes. They play a crucial role in team leadership, fostering collaboration, optimizing workflows, and maintaining a structured, results-driven environment.

A key focus of this role is admissions strategy and student differentiation, where the Senior Manager conducts in-depth evaluations to enhance students profiles and strengthen their applications for Ivy League and top-tier universities. This requires staying ahead of admissions trends and curating tailored strategies that make student applications stand out.

The Senior Manager is responsible for roadmap development and project ideation, identifying unique, interdisciplinary initiatives in fields like Computer Science, AI, Business, and Liberal Arts to enhance scholars academic and extracurricular growth. They also drive continuous student progress monitoring, conducting milestone assessments and implementing corrective actions to ensure academic and personal development.

Additionally, this role demands rigorous KPI tracking, including student engagement, project execution, client satisfaction, and admission success rates. By maintaining strong relationships with students and parents, they ensure a seamless experience

Lastly, the Senior Manager plays a vital role in team motivation and development, mentoring consultants, fostering resilience, and sustaining momentum during the intensive application season.

Specific Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Leadership & Team Management: Overseeing a team of 4-5 consultants while managing a student pod of 70-75 scholars. Ensuring operational efficiency, team cohesion, and high-impact student outcomes.
2. Admissions Strategy & Profile Differentiation: Conducting strategic evaluations of student profiles to maximize Ivy League and top-tier college admissions. Developing deep expertise in crafting standout applications aligned with evolving admission trends.
3. Tailored Roadmaps & Project Ideation: Designing customized, high-impact strategies for incoming students, identifying unique, interdisciplinary projects spanning Computer Science, AI, Physics, Economics, Business, and Liberal Arts to strengthen their academic and extracurricular portfolios.
4. Student Growth Monitoring & Corrective Action: Tracking scholar progress through structured milestone reviews, offering targeted interventions to enhance academic, extracurricular, and personal development.
5. Team Motivation & Development: Sustaining team morale and resilience through the intensive application season (October–December). Providing continuous feedback, mentorship, and learning opportunities to consultants.
6. KPI & Performance Tracking: Ensuring key performance indicators (KPIs) for scholar success, including:

• Scholar & Parent Check-ins – Maintaining high engagement and proactive communication.
• Project Progress & Quality – Driving excellence in research and extracurricular initiatives.
• Client Satisfaction – Addressing escalations, ensuring top-tier service.
• Admissions Results – Measuring success through student placements.

Why should you be interested

• Impact: Working with Athena will provide you with an opportunity to bring about a positive impact in the lives of the best students in the country - the future pioneers of the world.
• Team and Culture: We are a young and daring collection of adventurers dedicated to excellence and growth. We are always efficient and occasionally funny. The candidate will get a chance to work in a multicultural environment with ex-pats from different corners of the globe.

Our team comprises creative and diverse people, all goal-oriented, proactive, and looking to transform students lives. We love to work hard, play hard! Our workplace encourages you to be an independent thinker, an intellectually curious team member, and be an objective decision maker.