About the IIHS Academic Programmes and Schools
India s urban transition is unprecedented in scale and complexity. Within it lie both the opportunities of increased economic growth and employment as well as the challenges of persistent inequality, extreme deprivation and environmental degradation. IIHS academic programmes aim to foster a new generation of urban practitioners and change makers, to become part of shaping this transition.
The academic programmes are supported by the five interdisciplinary IIHS Schools: School of Environment and Sustainability (SES), School of Systems and Infrastructure (SSI), School of Economic Development (SED), School of Human Development (SHD) and School of Governance (SoG). Each School has a particular transformational theme and a set of teaching, research and practice projects and programmes within it. Collectively, the five schools systematically address a wide range of urban issues, from questions of livelihood and economic development, access to basic infrastructure, affordable housing and healthcare for all, to tackling climate change and land governance.
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.
The role requires excellent written and oral communication, attention to detail, market orientation, people orientation, and networking skills.
This could be either a regular position or a 11- month contractual engagement, renewable on mutual consent, with the potential to turn into a regular position over time.
Activities and Tasks
Responsibilities would include, but not be limited to, the following:
- 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 the students of the University for internships and careers;
- Collaborating with various internal teams like the Communications and Design team and the Academic Office, and with 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; and travelling on IIHS work within or outside the country as and when needed.
Structure and Reporting
The associate will be an External Consultant coordinating with the Lead Career Development (Post-Graduate Programmes) at IIHS and will be required to collaborate effectively with a diverse group of internal teams and external individuals/ organisations, and students.
Person Specification
The ideal candidate should have:
- A Bachelor s or Master s degree in any discipline;
- Total experience of 3-5 years in a related role;
- 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 (Tableau, Datawrapper, Google Charts, Microsoft PowerBI, etc.) is highly desirable;
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills;
- The ability to organise events and workshops by coordinating with key internal and external stakeholders.
This could be either a regular position or a 11- month contractual engagement, renewable on mutual consent, with the potential to turn into a regular position over time. This offer is on an exclusive basis, which implies that other professional assignments (whether compensated or not) that bear a potential conflict of interest with IIHS cannot be undertaken.
The search will remain open until the position is filled.
Location
This position is based in Bengaluru and may entail travel to other locations in India.
Review and Assessment
The role and performance of the incumbent shall be subject to normal review and assessment systems at IIHS.
