Academic, College Counselor · Part-time, W-· advisors wit

We're hiring part-time college advisors to staff our growing Bay Area offices. If you're an independent consultant tired of running a business instead of doing the work, a former admissions officer or current college reader looking for predictable income, or a school counselor who wants to use your expertise outside school hours — read on.

Strive Path empowers students and families with personalized academic and college advising. We bring community resources and leverage comprehensive data to provide clarity in high school and college planning. Focusing on holistic development, we guide students through academic planning, career exploration, and admissions, ensuring they are well-prepared for the future. Happier students. Less stressed families. Better admission outcomes. We believe families deserve better than the all-or-nothing choice between an overworked school counselor with 300+ students on their caseload and a sole-practitioner consultant juggling marketing and billing instead of advising.

We're building the place in the middle.

Position:
Academic College Consultant/Coach

Locations:
Expected to service students from one of our Bay Area offices.

Employment Type:

Full Time

Compensation: $75/hour with opportunity to scale to full time

The Academic College Consultant/Coach will be responsible for advising and coaching students as they progress through middle and high school. This role involves working closely with students to ensure they are well-prepared for college applications, utilizing a well-defined curriculum and data-driven insights.

$75/hour, W-2. Our average student contract is $5,000 and lasts 12+ months. Most of our advisors earn $50,000+ in annual supplemental income working with around 15 students. No invoicing, no chasing payments, no 1099 surprises.

Contracts last 12+ months, so the income is consistent

Most solo college consultants live with feast-or-famine income — busy in fall, dry in spring. Our average student contract is 12+ months, often longer. That means consistent monthly income — once you ramp, you know what next month looks like.

You will never pitch a family, quote prices, close a contract, ask for referrals, or run a webinar to fill your pipeline. We handle every part of business development. Your job starts the day a family signs and ends the day their student matriculates.

No invoicing. No intake calls. No marketing. No CRM management. No website to maintain. No collections. No family‑escalations call at 9pm on Sunday. Our operations team handles all of it.

Most independent consultants and school counselors make every judgment call in isolation. Was that the right rec letter strategy? Should this kid apply ED? Is this essay actually good? Here, you have 15+ colleagues to consult, a structured curriculum to anchor decisions, and shared performance data on how our past students fared at every school on the list. You stop second‑guessing.

If you want more hours, more responsibility, and a salaried path, it's available.

• 1:1 sessions with assigned students — in person at our Bay Area offices, with some remote sessions as appropriate
• Guide students through UC, Common App, and CSU applications
• Course planning, summer programs, essay strategy, school list building — the full advising arc from 9th grade through matriculation
• Lead occasional workshops for students and parents
• Document insights so the team gets sharper together — we explicitly invest in becoming better collectively, not just individually

• Real college admissions experience — at least one of the following:
• Former or current admissions officer (any college)
• Former or current school counselor
• Independent college consultant
• Current or former UC reader or other college application reader
• Education:
  
  Bachelor's degree required. Master's preferred but not required. HECA / WACAC / NACAC / IECA membership is a plus.
• Strong working knowledge of UC,…