Welcome Desk Program Counselor (WPC), Pre-College 2024

Job Title: Welcome Desk Program Counselor (WPC), Pre-College 2024

Organization: BrandEd

Department: Sotheby’s Summer Institute, Vogue Summer School, City Football Leadership Institute

Reports to: Residential Hall Assistant Director, Residential Hall Director

Program Information   

With New York City as their home and classroom, Sotheby’s Summer Institute students are immersed in the most vibrant global art capital with auction houses, blue chip and emerging galleries, world class museums, artists’ studios, private collections, arts foundations, and much more right in their backyard. Summer Institute provides students with an environment to learn, investigate, and explore the art world while forming life-long connections with friends and mentors. This unique pre-college program offers three two-week sessions each with exclusive, academically rigorous courses and bespoke activities and events designed to engage, inspire, and fuel creativity.  All courses are taught by leading art world experts and academics on a university campus in the heart of New York City. 

Vogue Summer School invites high schoolers to immerse themselves in one of the most important fashion capitals in the world: New York City. Opening the doors to a unique world of excellence and creativity, students will explore a wealth of topics shaping fashion today and in the future through the expert eye of the world’s most famous and influential fashion magazine: Vogue. Run by Condé Nast College of Fashion and Design, Vogue Summer School provides a world-class fashion education along with unrivalled access to the best and brightest minds in the industry. Our instructors are award-winning Vogue and Condé Nast journalists, including the teams at Glamour, GQ, and a host of other Condé Nast titles, as well as industry experts and recognized thought leaders in the business and strategic sides of the fashion, media and luxury lifestyle industries.

Next Gen aims to connect the next generation of leaders with the sport industry and give them their first experience of what a future career in the sector could look like. This unique summer residential program takes students inside the world of City Football Group, Manchester City and New York City FC, and offers a hands-on immersion into the business of sport. Course leaders will guide students through interactive workshops and group activities that will bring program topics to life. Our learning framework is designed to enhance both business and personal development, to support students with exceling in any future environment. Students will experience immersive learning, industry experts, career development and leadership skills.

About BrandEd

Knowledge is our passion. We thrive at the intersection of business and education and have built a global reputation for developing world-class learning programs to nurture the industry leaders of tomorrow.

Our mission is to empower lives through education. We seek to understand the passions of a new generation of students to help transform those passions into meaningful and fulfilling career trajectories. We do this by delivering relevant, experiential courses taught by industry experts from the world’s best brands.

BrandEd has been operating for two decades beginning with the acquisition of the London campus of Sotheby’s Institute of Art in 2003. Over the years we have built a portfolio of world-class academic programs with iconic brands including Sotheby’s Institute of Art, The School of the New York Times (est. 2016), City Football Leadership Institute (est. 2022) and Conde Nast College of Fashion & Design (acquired in 2023). BrandEd is owned by Cambridge Information Group (CIG), a family-owned investment firm since 1971 focused on long-term and meaningful ventures in education, technology, and information services.

Position Description 

The WPC will play a crucial role in the academic, residential, and social aspects of the precollege program by serving as the point person for all things student and parent related by providing support, direction, and a seamless line of communication regarding what’s happening in real time.