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Academic Advisor

QuickStart Inc.

QuickStart Inc.

Karachi, Karachi City, Sindh, Pakistan
Posted on Thursday, August 22, 2024

Job Information

Industry
Sales - Marketing
Work Experience
4-5 years
Salary
120k- 150k
City
Karachi
State/Province
Sindh
Zip/Postal Code
74000

Job Description

Academic Advisor

Job Location: Karachi, Pakistan

Department: Academic Advisory

Type: Regular, Full-Time

Working hours: 6:00 pm – 3:00 am


Mission: Building World Class Technologists


Vision: Play a leading role in workforce development in mission-critical IT fields


Overview: QuickStart is a leader in IT workforce development that helps job-seekers break into in-demand IT fields and upskills existing IT professionals. The organization uses its proprietary learning methodology and workforce readiness platform (CLIPP) to deliver personalized learning using AI and multi-modal formats. We partner with leading universities, certification providers, and employers to build and transform the IT workforce for Fortune 1000 customers in the areas of App Dev, Dev Ops, Information Security, Cloud Computing, and Data Science. If you are interested in becoming a part of a team that is changing the game in IT training and workforce development, we want to hear from you.


At QuickStart, we are committed to upholding the following core values:


Passion |Respect | Accountability | Innovation | Speed | Execution [ PRAISE ]


Responsibilities, include but are not limited to:

  • Conducting live orientations with the new enrolled students and sending them all necessary details.
  • Weekly follow up calls to make sure we can touch basis with students in case of any issue.
  • Following up with mentors to make sure bootcamp is on the right pace and if any student needs any additional help.
  • Maintaining scores and grades of the students and keeping a record for it.
  • Answering day to day queries from students via email, texts and calls, to make sure that they are resolved in timely manner
  • Reviewing weekly progress report for students sent by IT.
  • Maintaining a healthy completion rate.
  • Handling all the students of WIOA and updating their respective counselors.
  • Assisting in yearly audit of all WIOA students.
  • Maintaining a healthy working relationship with WIOA leadership team.
  • Following up with students who need special attention or referred by Mentor.
  • Sending weekly emails to mentor to update the progress of the students.
  • Sending progress report to the mentor




Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

Education and Experience


  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • 3 to 5 years of work experience in Customer Support / Sales /Career Advisory


Competency Identifiers


  • Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
  • Team player
  • Customer support/sales experience