Part-Time Business Development, Sales & Marketing Assistant / Intern
Ceph’s Learning Hub | Part-Time | Flexible/Hybrid
About Ceph’s Learning Hub
Ceph’s Learning Hub is a growing education and learning business that has served students across the United States and Canada through online and in-person learning.
We provide personalized education in:
- Academic tutoring
- Piano lessons
- Western voice/vocal training
We are looking for a motivated, organized, creative, and sales-oriented Part-Time Business Development, Sales & Marketing Assistant / Intern to work directly with the founder and help grow the business.
This position is ideal for someone interested in sales, marketing, education, entrepreneurship, and business development who wants hands-on experience helping build and expand an education business.
Main Goal of the Position
The primary focus of this role is sales, marketing, and business growth.
Our goal is to build and maintain a strong base of active students across the United States and Canada for tutoring, piano, and voice classes.
We are particularly interested in developing long-term student relationships, with new students ideally committing to a minimum of six months.
You will be expected to actively help generate leads, communicate with prospective families, follow up with inquiries, and convert qualified leads into paying students.
Key Responsibilities1. Sales & Business Development
- Generate new student leads for tutoring, piano, and voice programs.
- Communicate with prospective parents and students.
- Follow up consistently with inquiries and potential clients.
- Help convert leads into registered, paying students.
- Identify potential partnerships, communities, schools, parent groups, organizations, and other sources of student referrals.
- Develop referral strategies to encourage existing families to recommend Ceph’s Learning Hub.
- Maintain a basic lead pipeline and track inquiries, follow-ups, conversions, and registrations.
- Work toward monthly enrollment and business-growth targets.
2. Marketing
A significant part of this position will involve finding creative ways to grow the business within a limited budget or with no marketing budget at all.
Responsibilities may include:
- Developing low-cost and no-cost marketing strategies.
- Assisting with social media marketing.
- Creating promotional content and campaigns.
- Promoting classes through relevant online communities and platforms.
- Identifying appropriate community groups and networks in the U.S. and Canada.
- Creating and distributing promotional materials.
- Developing seasonal campaigns for tutoring, piano, and voice enrollment.
- Finding new and creative ways to reach parents and students.
- Tracking which marketing channels generate the most inquiries and registrations.
The ideal candidate should be willing to experiment, learn, measure results, and continuously improve our marketing approach.
3. Email Communication & Newsletters
- Send professional emails to current and prospective clients.
- Send class updates, reminders, announcements, and other communications.
- Create and distribute newsletters.
- Follow up with prospective families after inquiries.
- Maintain regular communication with existing parents and students.
- Help communicate new programs, promotions, schedules, and opportunities.
4. Scheduling & Student Coordination
- Create and maintain student schedules.
- Coordinate suitable class times between students and instructors.
- Assist with rescheduling and cancellations.
- Keep track of recurring classes.
- Help maintain organized records of students, classes, and instructors.
- Communicate scheduling changes to parents and students.
5. Invoicing & Payment Follow-Up
- Prepare and send invoices when required.
- Maintain basic records of payments.
- Keep track of upcoming and outstanding payments.
- Professionally follow up with parents regarding overdue or pending payments.
- Help ensure that billing and payment communication remains organized and consistent.
Sales Commission
This role includes a performance-based sales incentive.
For every qualified lead personally generated by you that successfully converts into a paying student, you will receive:
10% of the student's first-month fees
PLUS
5% of the student's second-month fees
The more successful students you bring into Ceph’s Learning Hub, the greater your opportunity to earn through commissions.
Opportunity to Teach
This position can also develop into a teaching opportunity.
After approximately 3 months of working with Ceph’s Learning Hub, candidates who demonstrate reliability, professionalism, strong communication skills, and appropriate subject knowledge may be given the opportunity to teach selected students.
Teaching opportunities will depend on your education, experience, and subject knowledge.
For students assigned to you for teaching, you will generally receive approximately 25–30% of the student's monthly fees, depending on the subject, grade level, responsibilities, and teaching arrangement.
This means the position can gradually develop from sales, marketing, and administration into a combination of business development and teaching.
Who We Are Looking For
The ideal candidate is:
- Sales and growth oriented.
- Comfortable communicating with parents and prospective clients.
- Confident sending professional emails and following up with leads.
- Creative about finding customers without depending on expensive advertising.
- Persistent and comfortable following up multiple times when appropriate.
- Organized and able to manage schedules, invoices, emails, and student information.
- Comfortable working independently.
- Able to take initiative rather than waiting for every task to be assigned.
- Professional and trustworthy when dealing with families and students.
- Interested in education and working with children and young people.
- Interested in entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, or business development.
- Comfortable learning new systems and processes.
- Potentially capable of teaching one or more academic subjects after the initial three-month period.
Experience in sales, marketing, business development, tutoring, education, social media, administration, or customer service is an asset.
Motivated college/university students, recent graduates, and early-career professionals who want practical business experience are also encouraged to apply.
What You Will Learn
This is not simply an administrative internship.
You will work closely with the founder and gain practical experience in:
- Business development
- Sales and lead generation
- Digital and community marketing
- Client acquisition
- Customer relationship management
- Email marketing and newsletters
- Student enrollment
- Scheduling and operations
- Invoicing and payment follow-up
- Education business management
- Entrepreneurship
- Teaching and tutoring opportunities
As the business grows, the right candidate may have opportunities to take on additional responsibilities, teaching opportunities, and greater involvement in the growth of Ceph’s Learning Hub.
Schedule
This is a part-time position with a flexible schedule.
The schedule will be created based on business needs and the candidate's availability. Some flexibility may be required because we work with students and families across different time zones in the United States and Canada.
The candidate should be available consistently each week to manage leads, follow-ups, emails, marketing activities, and administrative responsibilities.
To Apply
Please submit your resume and a short introduction explaining:
- Why you are interested in working with Ceph’s Learning Hub.
- Any experience you have in sales, marketing, business development, education, tutoring, administration, or customer service.
- If you were given little or no advertising budget, how would you find new students for Ceph’s Learning Hub?
- What academic subjects or skills you may be comfortable teaching after the initial three-month period.
- Your general weekly availability.
- Any experience you have creating newsletters, social media content, or marketing materials.
Organization: Ceph’s Learning Hub
Position: Part-Time Business Development, Sales & Marketing Assistant / Intern
Work Arrangement: Flexible/Hybrid
Student Reach: 100+ students served across the United States and Canada
Programs: Academic Tutoring | Piano | Western Voice
Growth Goal: Build and maintain 50–80 active students
Primary Focus: Sales, Marketing, Lead Generation & Business Growth
Pay: From $18.50 per hour
Benefits:
Work Location: Remote
