Job Opportunity for Consultant-Placement Coordinator at AIF in Ahmedabad

Position – Consultant 

Role – Placement Coordinator  

Number of position – One (1)  

Program – Livelihoods 

Location – Ahmedabad, Gujarat 

Position Type – Consultancy  

Reporting To – Direct to National Placement Manager- Livelihoods & dotted line with Project Manager (BACI)  

Duration – 5 months  

Background  

The American India Foundation Trust is committed to improving the lives of India’s underprivileged, with  a special focus on women, children, and youth. The Foundation does this through high impact  interventions in education, health, and livelihoods because poverty is multidimensional. Through its  unique value proposition, working closely with local communities, the Foundation partners with NGOs to  develop and test innovative solutions and with governments to create and scale sustainable impact.  Founded over two decades ago, in the aftermath of the devastating Gujarat earthquake, as a humanitarian  initiative by Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ji and Bill Clinton, AIFT has impacted the lives of 16.51 million of India’s  poor across 36 States and Union Territories of India. Learn more at https://aif-india.org 

About the Livelihoods Program  

AIFT’s Livelihoods program envisions a world where poor and vulnerable communities have access to  dignified work opportunities, empowering them with sustainable livelihoods. Since 2006, Livelihoods  program has directly and indirectly served 1.4 million beneficiaries. The program takes a unique market  relevant approach, while leveraging technology to provide knowledge, skills, and opportunities to  underprivileged youth, marginalized women and Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) to secure jobs, manage  enterprises, and make a respectable living. To enable a razor-sharp focus on the country’s livelihood  issues, AIFT has also initiated the Market Aligned Skills Foundation (MASF), a Section-8 company  envisioned as a social start-up. Multiple innovations have been introduced to resurrect lives and  livelihoods upended by COVID-19. Removing systemic barriers like long duration of loan approvals, and  default in loan repayments; Project Entre-Prerana is creating robust financial linkages by engaging an  innovative AI enabled underwriting and loan disbursal platform. Leveraging technology to mine and meet  inclusive and remote job opportunities in the post-COVID era, AIFT’s one of its kind AI-enabled platform,  “Inclusive Jobs Portal https://inclusivejobs.in,” aims to bring together equal opportunity and inclusive  employers with talented candidates from the underserved communities of Persons with Disabilities  (PWDs), and the “Remote Jobs Portal- https://remote.inclusivejobs.in/” aims to create synergies to  match organizations looking for a diverse pool of qualified and skilled women aspirants, from  inaccessible, rural, remote and aspirational districts around the country. 

About The Project 

Project “Engage 2 Empower (E2E)” is India’s first of its kind program, which deeply engages the corporate  employee volunteers as equal participants in creating a career pathway, through skill enhancement and  job access, of marginalized youth, especially females and persons with disabilities. It has been envisaged  as a completely virtual program. 

Key deliverables:  

• To ensure internship/placement of candidates  

• To generate employment opportunities for candidates and alumni by establishing and maintaining  productive employer partnerships in remote locations  

• To help candidates identify employment options that match their career interests. 

 • To assist candidates in all aspects of the job search including resume writing, interviewing  techniques and job referrals.  

• To schedule and follow up on candidate interviews with prospective employers. 

• To contact employers for developing reciprocally beneficial partnerships for jobs, internships and  job shadowing opportunities.  

• To take the lead in organizing virtual job fairs  

• To maintain the employer database and candidates’ profiles as needed.  

• To provide targeted career information and resources for specific majors and interest groups to  candidates, alumni, trainers, and staff as needed.  

• To collaborate and promote Career Planning services through in-class presentations, student  organization outreach  

• Travel to the field as and when required  

• Any other cross-functional initiatives as assigned by the line manager  

Key Skills and Competencies:  

Bachelor’s degree in psychology/communication/business management/human resources/information  technology, or related field. 

1. Four (4) plus years’ previous experience as Placement Officer or related positions 

2. Proficient computer skills, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel), and  instructional software  

3. Well-informed of labor market trends, employer needs and best practices in career services. 

4. Strong presentation skills 

5. Openness to students and colleagues from a range of cultures and languages. 

6. Experience with technologies and best practices for instructional manuals  

7. Good interpersonal skills and communication with all levels of management 

8. Excellent verbal and written communication skills  

9. Organized and able to create multiple timelines, budgets, and schedules  

10. Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently  

11. Ability to work under pressure and disciplined  

Other: Monthly fees commensurate with experience.  

Position Availability: Immediately  

Application Process: To apply for this position, send your CV and covering letter describing how you meet  the specifications for this role and what you bring to it by applying below. 

Only applications of short-listed candidates will be acknowledged.