Associate

Job Summary

Position: 

Leadership Academy Associate with PJS of Texas, ECS of Texas, Clean Scapes Landscaping, and Top Choice Lawn Care 

Role Summary:

Our Associate’s Position with Leadership Academy is a one-year early career development program that will ignite your professional and personal growth. This position combines real field experience, a variety of job assignments and interaction with company leaders, lessons in business, mentorship from company executives, and community with like-minded peers in your cohort. As part of Leadership Academy, you’ll discover unmatched opportunities to turn your higher education into real-world experience with companies that are committed to bettering the lives of their people and communities. A role as a Leadership Academy Associate positions you to become a future business leader in one of our partnering companies or beyond. 

Essential Responsibilities:

• You will complete  4-6 month rotations working in 2-4 “best-in-class” service companies that lead the market in their respective industries with exposure to how businesses are run from bottom to top.
• You will get hands-on experience executing the “blue collar” work that makes our society run. This is the hard, dirty, sweaty, physically demanding work.
• You will have opportunities to lead and manage people.
• You will be mentored and developed with routine and frank feedback from company leaders.
• You will participate in a rigorous reading and writing program that will ensure you internalize lessons learned.
• You will hear from leaders in the Austin community about their careers and experiences.
• You will actively uphold our companies’ values by participating in our inclusive culture both inside the companies and in the communities we serve.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) 

• Minimum 3.0 overall GPA

• 0-3 years of relevant work experience

• Must be willing to relocate to Austin, TX
• Candidates must graduate and be available for work prior to September 2021

Desired Characteristics:

• Superior academic achievement: Overall GPA greater than or equal to 3.0/4.0

• Demonstrates Competency: Leadership experience, strong academic and extracurricular record, problem-solver

• Demonstrates Character: Eager to learn, humble, receptive, desire to help and serve, personal integrity

• Demonstrates Culture: People-oriented, strategic, long-term thinker, hardworking

About us:

Description of the companies or of LA? Or both?

Location: Austin, TX

Compensation: $45,000 annualized