Associate Business Coach — 18-Month Mentored Program (Early Career)

Company Description The Elevatory is a digital marketing-focused coaching and consulting business dedicated to helping startups and small businesses scale sustainably. The team provides coaching, consulting, and done-for-you marketing services tailored to organizations with limited budgets but ambitious growth goals. By simplifying marketing strategy, setup, and complex terminology, The Elevatory enables clients to focus on their core strengths while building effective marketing systems. The company positions itself as a supportive partner for smaller businesses, emphasizing practical, results-driven digital marketing guidance and management.

Role Description The Associate Business Coach — 18-Month Mentored Program (Early Career) is a full-time remote role designed for individuals starting their business coaching career. In this role, the Associate Business Coach will support senior coaches in delivering structured coaching programs, assist in developing business plans and marketing strategies for clients, and help analyze performance data to identify growth opportunities. Day-to-day tasks include participating in client coaching sessions, preparing session materials and follow-up documentation, supporting consulting projects, and contributing to training resources and frameworks used across the program. The role involves active learning through mentorship, applying coaching methodologies to real client scenarios, and collaborating with the team to refine processes that help startups and small businesses scale through digital marketing.

Qualifications

• Candidates should possess foundational skills in Business Coaching and Coaching, with a strong interest in developing client-facing advisory capabilities.
• Candidates should possess skills in Business Planning and Consulting, including the ability to interpret business objectives and recommend practical growth strategies.
• Candidates should possess Training-related skills, such as helping design or deliver structured learning experiences for clients and internal team members.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust and rapport with early-stage business owners.
• Demonstrated interest or experience in digital marketing, small business operations, or entrepreneurship.
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment, manage time effectively, and adapt to evolving client needs.
• Relevant tertiary education in business, marketing, communications, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

The Elevatory works with owner-led Australian businesses, helping them break revenue plateaus caused by weak governance, untrusted metrics and owner dependency.

We are taking on a small cohort of Associate Coaches — three to five people — into a structured 18-month mentored program. This is an apprenticeship, not a course. You will be contracted and paid, you will work on live client engagements from the first month, and you will be supervised weekly.

No prior coaching experience is required. We are recruiting for aptitude and coachability, not credentials.

Mentoring and development independently costed at $39,980 per year, including:

• Weekly one-to-one supervision with the principal (45 minutes, 44 weeks a year)
• Monthly half-day cohort intensives with your peer group
• Live client co-delivery — observation, then supported delivery, then solo work
• Recorded session reviews with written critique
• Quarterly 360 assessment against a five-domain competency framework
• Full licence to our diagnostic tools, frameworks, templates and engagement IP
• An external CPD and accreditation allowance

Months 1–9: Learning the model and the diagnostic. Observing live client work. Preparing session materials and analysis.

Co-delivering with the principal, then running your own sessions under supervision. Taking ownership of your first clients.

Months 10–18: Running an independent client book. Developing commercial capability — scoping, pricing and winning your own work. Choosing a specialisation.

Essential

• 0–3 years in coaching, consulting or advisory — or a different background entirely and a clear, considered reason for moving into this work
• Strong commercial curiosity: you want to understand how a business actually makes money
• Excellent listening and questioning ability; comfortable with silence
• Numerate enough to read a P&L and ask the right question about it
• Genuinely coachable — you will receive direct feedback weekly
• Able to work autonomously in a remote environment
• Australian work rights

Desirable

• Prior experience inside an owner-led SME
• Formal coaching qualification (helpful, not required)
• Finance, operations or people-leadership background
  

• Not a course you buy. You are paid, not charged.
• Not a licence or franchise arrangement.
• Not a fit for anyone building a personal brand as the primary goal.
• Not passive. The program is demanding and gated — progression is earned at each stage.
  

Complete the application and Applications close 25th Aug cob.

Shortlisted applicants complete a DISC profile and a short written business-analysis exercise, followed by two conversations. We are deliberately slow at this stage — an 18-month commitment on both sides deserves it.