Lead Counselor

About the Role

AddedEducation, a division of The Added Company, provides an array of services for students and student-athletes, in their pursuit of tertiary education opportunities. We are dedicated to up-skilling gifted students and student-athletes, providing them with resources and opportunities for leveraging their talent to access top-notch tertiary education globally. Based in Singapore with operations across the globe, we are a team of young like-minded people united by a single mission: to support and promote sporting and academic excellence. Currently under the AddedEducation brand, our business needs are focused on US, UK and Canada university admissions services, boarding school preparatory services and pre-high school development services.

Beyond college counseling, we offer transformative developmental programs such as AddedNova — our in-house research cell that fosters intellectual curiosity and original thinking, Public Speaking — helping students master the art of confident communication, and the Book Club — designed to build critical reading and analytical skills. Together, these programs form the foundation of a comprehensive approach to education that goes far beyond applications, shaping well-rounded individuals ready for success on a global stage.

We are looking for a highly strategic and creative storyteller who can architect, lead, and execute AddedEducation’s global content engine. This role blends strategic narrative-building, content architecture, performance-driven content creation, and cross-functional leadership. You will shape how students, parents, partners, and global markets understand who we are and what we stand for.

What We're Looking For

Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with clients (student athletes & academic clients) and other consultants to provide support for client requirements and priorities. These include – College career planning for clients in collaboration with other consultants, Communication with US university/college admissions, coaches and other professionals.
  • Educating students and parents about colleges, the college admissions process, trends, procedures, and testing; advising and supporting clients and families as they go through the process; help students and families aspire realistically and choose wisely.
  • Advising students and families on curricular choices leading to college admissions for different educational systems, especially aspects unique to them.
  • Ideate, Execute, and course correct the client engagement strategy. Helping students, athletes, not only apply to college but clarify their grander vision. Understand their strengths, weaknesses, goals and development needs.
  • Brainstorm with clients and their families for student profile building.
  • Making informational presentations to parents and other audiences through webinars, discussion forums.
  • Being aware of issues and trends in college admission, higher education, testing, as well as keeping up-to-date about specific colleges and representing AddedEducation at relevant conferences and events.
  • Maintaining and disseminating information about standardized tests such as SAT, ACT, and TOEFL.
  • To coordinate with partners / vendors to ensure all dependencies to or from AddedEducation are being met.
  • Follow the Client Delivery Process at AddedEducation to ensure all communication is updated in the project management tool, in collaboration with the team at AddedEducation.

Required Skills

  • A good Bachelor’s Degree from a reputed university (Preferably from the US, UK, Canada)
  • You should have the passion and the motivation to work. The successful candidate will need to have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • A Passion for Sports and education and mentoring young athletes, young students.
  • Strong organizational ability and result-oriented mindset
  • Exceptional communication skills – writing, interviewing and research skills
  • Proficient in Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat
  • Almost a superhuman attention to detail
  • Ability to juggle multiple projects while meeting demanding deadlines, producing high quality work and projecting a positive attitude
  • Experience in college admissions or high school college counseling and understanding of admissions for educational systems around the world is a major plus
  • Knowledge of global universities, their academic programs, admission policies, and financial policies and procedures
  • Demonstrates the AddedEducation Values – Listen, Ideate, Strategize, Tenacity

What you will get from us, in return is:

  • A highly collaborative environment that pushes you to think beyond your boundaries
  • A diverse workload, keeping you continually stimulated
  • An open forum for expression of ideas
  • Diverse opportunities
Job Details

DepartmentClient Delivery

TypeFull-time

LocationDubai, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, United Kingdom (Remote)

Deadline2026-07-30

Our team reviews every application and responds within 5 business days.

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