Remote Academic Coach & Student Assistant (Part-Time)

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Remote Academic Coach & Student Assistant (Part-Time, ~10 hours/week)

The steady partner who helps a high-achieving student master hard material and never miss a deadline.

About the Role

Seamless Assist is hiring a part-time Academic Coach & Student Assistant for a US-based family. You will work one-on-one, online, with their daughter, a motivated high-school student taking classes a year ahead of her grade, including several college-level Advanced Placement (AP) courses. This role reports to the student's parent.

Why This Role Exists

The student doesn't need to be taught from scratch. She is carrying a demanding, writing-heavy course load, and the pressure is in the volume: essays, problem sets, labs, tests and extracurricular deadlines all landing in the same week. This role exists to give her a sharp, organised partner who can keep up with advanced material, help her work through the hardest parts, and keep her schedule under control so nothing slips.

Her Current Classes

• AP Microeconomics & Macroeconomics
• AP Biology
• AP English Language & Composition
• AP US History
• Pre-Calculus
• Spanish 4
• Journalism & News Production

You don't need to be an expert in every subject. You do need to be strong in several of them, especially writing-heavy courses (AP English Language, AP US History) and at least one of economics, biology or maths.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

Academic coaching (about 70% of your time)

• Run live one-on-one video sessions to work through homework, problem sets, essays and test preparation.
• Explain difficult concepts clearly and check that she can explain them back.
• Review essays and written work for argument, structure, evidence and citations, including AP-style timed essays.
• Build practice questions, review plans and study guides ahead of tests and the AP exams in May.
• Learn how each course is taught and graded (syllabi, teacher rubrics, the College Board AP course frameworks) and coach to them.
• Coach, never complete. Her work must always be her own, in line with her school's academic integrity rules.

Planning and student assistant support (about 30% of your time)

• Run a weekly planning session: map every class's assignments, tests and deadlines into a shared calendar and task list.
• Keep her schedule current across classes, activities and appointments, with study time blocked in.
• Send short reminders before deadlines and confirm work was actually submitted.
• Track grades and flag early when something starts to slip.
• Send the parent a short weekly progress update.

Schedule

About 10 hours per week. Sessions fall on weekday afternoons and evenings, US Pacific Time (roughly 3:30–8:30 pm PT), plus one short weekend planning session. You must be reliably available in that window.

Who Will Succeed in This Role

This is a high-trust role with a bright, busy teenager. You will need real subject depth, patience, and the organisational discipline of a strong executive assistant.

• You explain things clearly and can tell the difference between "I get it" and actually getting it.
• You are a strong writer and can give specific, useful feedback on an argumentative essay.
• You run your own life from a calendar and a task list, and you follow up without being asked.
• You are warm, steady and encouraging, and you hold a high standard.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher, ideally in education, English, history, economics, biology, mathematics or a related field.
• At least 2 years of tutoring or teaching high-school or first-year university students.
• Strong command of the material in several of the subjects listed above.
• Excellent written and spoken English. Your writing will be assessed during screening.
• Uses AI tools in your daily work (for example Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini) to build study materials and plan faster, and can teach a student to use them responsibly and within school rules.
• Able to work US Pacific Time afternoons and evenings, about 10 hours per week.
• Reliable high-speed internet, a quiet workspace, a webcam and a backup power or internet plan.
• Willing to complete a national police clearance or background check and provide two professional references before starting.

Nice to have

• Experience with the US Advanced Placement (AP) programme, or strong AP, SAT, IB or A-Level results of your own.
• Conversational or better Spanish.
• Journalism, editing or newsroom experience.
• Comfortable in Google Workspace (Calendar, Docs, Drive) and a task tool such as Notion or Todoist.

How We Work

Because this role involves working one-on-one with a teenager, clear safeguards apply. All sessions run on a family-owned video account and are recorded. All messages go through a group channel that includes a parent. There is no private messaging or social-media contact with the student. A background check and references are required before the first paid session.

Pay

Competitive hourly pay, paid monthly in USD. Pay varies by country.

How to Apply

Apply with your CV. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to a short AI-led video interview, a written subject task, an interview with the family and a paid trial session.