Senior Executive-School of Arts and Sciences Internships and Placement

Role Summary:

This role holder requires coordinating end-to-end and being responsible for student internships. This includes support towards scheduling, organising and managing CDC support activities for the School of Arts & Social Sciences students at University, providing ample opportunities for students to achieve 100% -success in terms of internships, projects and playing an instrumental role in developing and sustaining a mutually beneficial long term relationship with the industry/recruiting organizations.

Responsibilities:

Job Responsibilities:

• Support in the development of an annual strategy to achieve the overall objective of the Corporate Relations & Career Development Centre wrt campus to corporate training, internship and placements of students of School of Arts & Social Sciences
• Develop circle of reference towards career orientation of the students in each area of specialization
• Extensive outreach to the focused set of recruiters towards Placements, experiential learning opportunities via Summer Internships, projects etc. for the students, viz. corporates, firms, research and development organisations, think-tanks, NGOs and Govt. organisations, etc.
• Develop intelligence around student interests with regular and continuing interactions with the student community
• Sharing industry feedback, trends and expectations with students and leadership
• Develop intelligence around upcoming market trends and appropriate job matches; with the help of the student councils and other internal stake holders
• Appoint and collaborate with the Student Placement Committee in collaboration with HOD & Deans
• Regular interactions with the student groups to provide information, advice and guidance towards career progression supporting the CDC leadership
• Use and maintain CDC centric CRM or similar tools provided. Ensure data accuracy MIS and Reporting student profiles, client database, activity report, etc.
• Support Director CDC on new student connect initiatives such as but not limited to Career Fair, Summer Fellow, etc.

Key Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Adept in using MS Work & PowerPoint with proficiency in working with MS Excel
• Tech Savvy
• Good interpersonal skills and pleasant personality
• Open to travel as per professional requirements – City, State and Country

Qualification:

• Any Graduate preferably a Graduate in Social Sciences (or similar)
• 2-5 years in organisational set-up, key accounts, student counselling, research will be an advantage
• Past exposure or experience in Key accounts, student counselling will be a plus