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Associate Director, Career Development Centre (Apply in 3 Minutes)

Associate Director, Career Development Centre (Apply in 3 Minutes)

Ahmedabad UniversityIndia
6 hours ago
Job description

Role Summary :

A dynamic and enterprising professional having a strong network with the corporates across industries, enabling the University to build, develop and expand the Industry outreach and connect its presence and thereby ensure to place the students in internships, fellowships, various projects and final placements. The position offers the opportunity to work with various internal and external stakeholders who comprise a wide array of responsibilities in a busy academic environment. This includes but is not limited to planning, guiding, and implementing industry engagement strategies and initiatives to increase awareness, build the University’s brand and strong relationships through quality placements of students, as well as to ensure the internal processes and activities are value adding and timely organised, managed, and executed.

About us : Ahmedabad University is a private, non-profit University that offers students a liberal education with a focus on research-driven and project-based learning. https : / / www.ahduni.edu.in /

Responsibilities :

  • In collaboration with the Director, plan, execute, manage and extensively carry out Industry outreach and engagement with the known corporates.
  • Generate interest from potential organisations, developing strong relationships and new collaborative opportunities with them, ensuring the students of the various schools of the University are appropriately placed.
  • Set up meetings between decision makers of organisations and University leaders for developing collaborative relationships.
  • Ability to co-create internship & student-led project opportunities with corporates, SME’s, policy think-tanks, government, etc.
  • Have a persuasive approach in developing and maintaining a highly professional and congenial atmosphere at all times with all the concerned stakeholders and interacting and coordinating with all.
  • Enthusiastically and warmly engage with students, enabling them to give their best in their preparations and during the industry visits on campus.
  • Attend industry functions, such as association events and conferences, and build a network and provide feedback and information on market and creative trends.
  • In regular consultation with faculty and with the support of team members, identify career & skill development needs of students within different schools and appropriately devise individual learning plans, training sessions, interactive lectures, making students industry-ready.
  • Working with the team for database management and it analysis, creating and maintaining Student Life Cycle and placement trackers, and comparative analysis of student and placement data.
  • Ensure completion and implementation, closely working with the communications function in the development of promotional materials (newsletter, presentations, brochures, posters, website, social media announcements, application instructions, videos, etc.) that interpret the school to prospective corporates.

Key Skills :

  • Must have exceptional presentation and business development, and Extensive Corporate networking skills in making a strong and convincing pitch, representing the University.
  • Requires strong interpersonal, motivation and influencing skills.
  • Confident, articulate and have strong English communication and writing skills.
  • Self-motivated and able to work independently and as a team member, fostering teamwork.
  • Possess professional demeanour & friendly / congenial personality with organisational astuteness.
  • Open to travel extensively and effectively work with people from diverse backgrounds
  • Excellent Networking, Persuasion, Prospecting, Public Speaking, Research, Writing and Influencing Skills
  • Motivated for Sales, can identify Customer Needs and Challenges
  • Must have a flair for rapport building, sustaining and building relationships both externally and internally
  • Highly positive and self-motivated, friendly and accessible, initiating easy connect with people
  • Qualification :

    Masters in Management with a minimum 16-18 years of experience in a similar position

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