Career Coach

Career Coach

Part-Time – Independent Contractor

Note: this application requires a voice note. See below for more details.

About the Role

Wanderlust Careers provides high-quality Career Coaching, Career Testing, and Professional Writing Services led by a team of exceptionally bright and accomplished master's and doctoral-level Career Coaches. All of our coaches bring MA- or Ph.D.- level expertise in counseling, psychology, or social work, ensuring clients receive both strategic and compassionate support in their career journeys.

If you’re a master’s or doctoral-level clinician with a background in mental health and are looking to shift your focus from therapy to coaching, this may be a strong fit.

This is not a traditional counseling or coaching role—this is challenging and demanding work that involves working with clients who often face complex mental health issues. It requires a high level of emotional resilience, clinical skill, and attention to detail. We operate a highly structured, data-driven, and clinically supervised model, where consistency, accountability, and excellence are essential. While the work can be intense, it is also deeply meaningful and rewarding for those who are committed to making a real impact. This position is best suited for professionals who thrive in high-expectation environments and take pride in delivering exceptional care.

This position is ideal for someone who desires to apply their clinical experience within a mission-driven social enterprise focused on helping others. Our ideal candidate is confident and composed under pressure, unflappable during difficult conversations, highly organized, exceptionally responsive, and meticulously detail-oriented. It’s also important that they are warm and empowering, eager to learn, and a collaborative team player committed to making a meaningful impact.

If you're a natural helper, a driven self-starter, and someone who wants to make a real difference in people’s lives, this could be the role for you. It’s not easy work—you’ll be challenged, held to high standards, and expected to show up fully—but for the right person, it’s incredibly rewarding and deeply impactful.

Specific Responsibilities Include (but Are Not Limited To)

• Collaborate with clients to develop career goals, action plans, and timelines
• Utilize counseling skills to assist clients to explore career indecision blocks, anxieties, barriers to change, etc.
• Work with clients to identify companies of interest, diversify job search strategies, leverage and expand existing networks effectively, collaborate with recruiters, develop leadership skills, etc.
• Conduct 45-minute weekly sessions with clients who are trying to improve their work lives, network, job search, build confidence, increase personal fulfillment, etc.
• Take notes on each session on Google Doc and make them accessible to Client and Director of Clinical Services
• Track Client sessions in Coaching Portal as per company policy

Note: this is a coaching only position (no Career Testing)

Qualifications

• Must have a master-or doctoral level degree in social work, counseling psychology, or clinical psychology
• Must have previous clinical experience and be comfortable working with clients with mental health diagnoses (depression, anxiety, BPD, etc.)
• Must have a holistic approach to coaching, able to look at the larger picture of other services needed as well as the client’s goals within the scope of their lifestyle and salary requirements.

Candidate Preferences

• Licensure in your state (Licensed Psychologist, LMSW, LCP, LMHC, etc.)
• Personality is key—we are looking for someone to join our team of charismatic, yet incredibly hard-working and detail-oriented team members
• Previous recruiting, human resources, business, consulting, or other corporate experience are a plus!
• Available standard EST or PST hours (9:00AM-5:00PM). Open to discussion if you prefer evening and weekend hours.
• The ability to think strategically and creatively to drive client outcome improvements
• Excellent communication skills

Pay & Benefits:

• $40 per hour (10-30 hours per week)
• 100% remote—work from anywhere!
• Flexible schedule–you have the freedom to adjust your hours as needed for appointments, family responsibilities, or personal needs. As long as our clients are well-supported and you remain highly responsive via email and Slack, we trust you to manage your time in the way that works best for you
• Supervision from M.A. & Ph.D.-level Career Coaches

About Wanderlust Careers

Wanderlust Careers is one of the top international career coaching firms, based out of New York City. We are proudly a woman and LGBTQ-owned business, specializing in working with people who are dissatisfied with their work, looking to make a career change, and/or struggling to make a career decision. We have successfully guided hundreds of clients and placed them at top companies like Google, Facebook, Apollo, Slack, Palantir, etc.

To learn more, visit www.wanderlustcareers.com

Next steps:

If interested, please send a resume and voice memo (as per directions below) to admin@wanderlustcareers.com.

Voice memo directions: In addition to your resume please send a voice note in lieu of a cover letter (using your smartphone voice memo app) introducing yourself, describing why you are interested in this position, your coaching style, and the top three reasons you would be a strong fit for this position. Describe any areas of expertise with specific populations, and preferred client populations if known (i.e., college students, neurodiverse, early career, C-suite). If you have time, add stories/examples to provide color to these attributes. Voice notes should be no longer than 5 minutes. For an application to be considered, a voice note must be included.