Senior Project Officer – Market Activation & Initiatives

Location - Mumbai or Chennai

Your work Area -

The Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor, Global Engagement leads initiatives focused on achievement of global engagement, transnational education and the internationalisation strategy. The team works collaboratively across the University to progress global strategy and projects, global partnerships, global advocacy, developing and supporting global relationships with key stakeholders, such as government and industry leaders. It establishes strategic partnerships, transnational education programs, identifies global opportunities for Client and maintains strong relationships with global education, research, public and private sector organisations worldwide.

Reporting structure

Reports to: Director, Global Advancement and Advocacy

Your role

The Senior Project Officer – Market Activation & Initiatives position is based in India. The primary focus will be to enable projects and initiatives that position University of Western Australia brand to educational partners, alumni; future talent as well as enhance student employability and experiential opportunities for current students. This includes the delivery of education outreach with partner colleges, alumni initiatives, hackathon challenges, work integrated learning and global internship programs. This position will have a particular focus on developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders in South Asia.

Your key responsibilities

• In collaboration with Client Crawley teams, deliver programs and projects which connects consumers to University of Western Australia value proposition to support brand positioning; alumni connect; student pathways through educational partnerships; and student employability and experiential learning.
• Undertakes outreach across a variety of locations to coordinate activities in the lead up to the Client India Campuses.
• Coordinates events and initiatives (including seminars, workshops, meetups and roundtables, visit programs) at the Client India Campuses and other outreach locations.
• Coordinates programs and initiatives that support student employability and experiential learning initiatives for students in Client Crawley into India and for potential students into Western Australia.
• Helps support alumni initiatives that support profiling, leveraging the alumni network; and particularly supporting recent graduates from Client into India and the surrounding region.
• Liaises with multiple stakeholder groups including Client, educational peak bodies and related stakeholders, alumni related opportunities as well as industry and government to support initiatives stated above.
• Identifies opportunities for sponsorship or grant funding to support the delivery of the initiatives.
• Works with Client colleagues to identify suitable education and industry partners for delivery.
• Scopes opportunities and plans and delivers a calendar of events to attract consumers and other related participants.
• Ensures programs, projects and events are planned and conducted efficiently and completes a post-event evaluation.
• Prepares emails, presentations and reports for a wide audience.
• Collects collates, translates and disseminates information related to project.
• Undertake other tasks and projects as directed.