One man team vs. 20+ digital marketing teams - hope?

Hey guys,

Last year I started my own e-learning website while being in high school. My peers really liked what I was doing and slowly joined me. I was leading a 7 men team and thus I was able to focus all of my efforts into SEO.

The website is doing well, and everybody is happy. I would say that I have learned enough to be considered decent/intermediate at SEO.

Last week my dad told me that his company (an engineering company with 10,000+ employees all around the world) is looking for a position as an online presence manager (with focus on SEO).

I've reached out to them and they basically take me as long as I provide them with a decent proposal.

Company history:

They just started operations in my country [not disclosing country bc it would be too easy to guess the company for somebody with experience in the field]. They are originally positioned in Europe and have their marketing teams their, but none in my country yet.

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They have 200k+ backlinks with decent quality and good relevance but only ~1000 search traffic in my country. (all backlinks are from Europe, my country isn't in Europe). Semrush authority score (~40)

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Question (1): Do those backlinks count for anything in my country even though they are from different countries?

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As there exists essentially nothing - thus there exists nothing to improve - I naturally gravitated towards comparing the company with their competitors.

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The competitors are about the same size as my company (in terms of company size and relevance), but their internet presence is astonishing. And I mean REALLY astonishing - like 1M+ organic searches, 3M+ backlinks, 80+ authority score, 10min Avg Time on page, 24% bounce rate - type of astonishing.

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As I am writing my proposal, I have come across some questions that I hope you can help me with:

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Question (2): How much would I charge per hour for a project like this? (I only worked on my own sites, so I never really looked into the cost of hiring SEO's)

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Question (3): I'm obviously will have no chance of competing against those other websites - which I will state clearly as often as I can - however, in your opinion, what would give the company the most online presence for the buck?

Question (4): Any general advice?

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BTW, I'm currently going to uni - so this would be a part-time 20h/week position.

I've numbered the questions so they are easier to answer.

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Thank you guys, I really appreciate you helping me!