About the role
<div class="content-intro"><div><strong>The Company&nbsp;</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>At Springboard, we’re on a mission to bridge the world’s skills gap, offering transformative online education in data science, UI/UX design, machine learning, and coding. Our courses may be tech-enabled, but we're ultimately human-centric: each student taps into a vast community throughout their time with us, engaging with fellow students, industry-expert mentors, student advisors, and career coaches, the goal of which is to successfully transition students into their dream job. Through this hybrid approach, we’ve helped thousands of learners revamp their careers and, by extension, their lives, with hundreds of top-notch job offers received every year and a near-perfect placement rate for our program graduates.</div></div><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Overview:</strong></span></p> <p><strong>Location: </strong>Remote (U.S.) | Contract, Part-Time (10 hrs/week)</p> <p><strong>Pay rate:&nbsp;</strong>Up to $35 an hour, pending location and experience</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>About the Role:</strong></span></p> <p>Springboard is launching an online training program designed to prepare aspiring Sterile Processing Technicians with no prior healthcare experience for entry-level roles and the CRCST certification exam through HSPA.</p> <p>Springboard is seeking experienced CRCST-certified Sterile Processing professionals to serve as student mentors throughout the course. Mentors support learners through 1:1 guidance, applied concept reinforcement, and exam-readiness coaching as students progress through a structured 14-week program.</p> <p>Because this is a first-time program launch, mentors will play an important role as early instructional partners, helping identify where students struggle, how concepts translate into practice, and how exam-readiness support can be strengthened across the student experience.</p> <p>This role is distinct from the Live Instructor role and does not include lecture delivery responsibilities.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></span></p> <p><strong>Student Mentorship and Support</strong></p> <ul> <li>Meet regularly with assigned students in scheduled 1:1 mentorship sessions</li> <li>Reinforce key sterile processing concepts aligned to CRCST exam domains</li> <li>Support students in translating coursework into real-world sterile processing workflows</li> <li>Help students build confidence navigating unfamiliar healthcare terminology and envir