Associate/ Senior Associate

About the Role

This position will be responsible for implementing processes and activities to enable internships, placements, and other career opportunities for students of the different academic programmes at IIHS, based on programme requirements and student aspirations. This could be either a regular position or an 11-month contractual engagement, renewable on mutual consent, with the potential to turn into a regular position over time.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensuring that potential employers and institutions and IIHS alumni are aware of IIHS’s academic programmes and students, and consider them as high quality sources of talent.
• Implementing learning and development initiatives to prepare students for internships and careers.
• Collaborating with various internal teams (e.g., Communications and Design team, Academic Office) and external ecosystem partners to promote the University and its students to prospective organisations.
• Staying up-to-date with academic and industry trends and best practices in career development.
• Representing the IIHS (Institution Deemed to be) University at relevant industry and academic events.
• Providing support to other IIHS initiatives and activities including admissions, academics, research, training, practice, operations, and others as needed.
• Participating in all activities of Institution-Building at IIHS.
• Carrying out tasks as assigned by IIHS.
• Travelling on IIHS work within or outside the country as and when needed.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experience and expertise in using standard documentation and data analysis tools: Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and Google Docs, Sheets and Slides are a must.
• The ability to use data visualisation / business intelligence tools such as Tableau, Datawrapper, Google Charts, Microsoft PowerBI, etc., is highly desirable.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in any discipline.
• Excellent written and oral communication.
• Attention to detail.
• Market orientation.
• People orientation.
• Networking skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• The ability to organise events and workshops by coordinating with key internal and external stakeholders.

Location: Bengaluru (may entail travel to other locations in India)

Reporting: External Consultant coordinating with the Lead – Career Development (Post-Graduate Programmes)