About ISDM

ISDM is an institution founded to create, strengthen and establish Development Management, a domain that transcends the exclusive silos of ‘development perspectives’ and ‘management principles’. ISDM recognises the need to ‘professionalise’ the Leading and Managing of Social Purpose Organisations (SPOs). The institution sees the development space as requiring the application of management disciplines that are unique and tailored to the scale of the sector. Management that doesn’t merely retrofit Business Management to development projects, but one that is born specifically from the coming together of the two crucial domains.

By 2025, ISDM aims to become the go-to management institute for top professionals wanting to transform the development sector for a greater impact on people’s lives. In order to achieve this aim, ISDM has identified three broad focus areas

1. Continuously building the one-year-long Post-Graduate Program in Development Management (PGP-DM);

2. Creating a strong research function that will lay the foundations for Development Management and leadership as a unique domain and discipline;

3. Launching Strategic Capacity Building Programs aimed at influencing and up skilling middle to senior leaders in the social sector through special workshops, short-term courses, and customized convening.

ISDM has audacious ambitions to build a world-class institution, become a global fountainhead of development management knowledge, and define the domain of development management for the Social Sectors. The belief is that Management for the Social Sectors (or Development Management) will significantly scale up the positive impacts on the lives of people in sustained ways. ISDM is entering a new phase of growth with a revamped program and renewed focus on establishing itself firmly as a preeminent institution in its domain. This requires strategic and energetic institutional leadership.

Job Descriptions:

Engaging with Organisations for building lasting and continued relationships with HR/senior leadership of Social Purpose Organisations.

Conduct research on identifying relevant SPOs, finding people in those organisations and gaining a foothold with HR or senior leadership, understand their recruitment cycle, hiring requirements, budgets etc.
Create platforms of engagement with existing and new partners for future collaborations (e.g. student engagement, guest lectures, leads for other partnerships etc.)
Orient Organisations about ISDM, its placement process, profiles of the batch and of students, inspire them to participate in the placement process
Identify and Build relationship with 30 – 40 aspirational Social Purpose Organisations across the spectrum (Those which will help build ISDM’s brand if our students get placed there)

Conceptualise and create placement strategy

Engage with other educational institutions to learn from their placement process
Design the overall placement strategy for the batch
Conduct election/selection process for students representatives for the placement committee
Work with batch and placement committee members to chalk out the placement process (timelines, policies and principles)

Preparing students for placements

Plan and organize sessions for students for job preparedness like writing and building CV, mock inteviews
Assist students in apects of job search like CV writing, Interview Techniques, and job referrals
Establish contact with alumni and practioners to arrange interactions with students
Brining potential employer to school to interact with students
Seeking advice and guidance from colleagues involved in supporting students
Help students identify employement options, provide insights into job requirements and offer recommendations

Outreach for placements

Work with designer partner to create the brochure
Create invitation emailers, follow up emailers
Reach out to organizations with specific asks and understand their specific requirements
Regular follow ups with organisations for them to share their Job Descriptions

Launching and running placements, getting students placed.

Schedule and advertise about campus process to partner organisations.
Share CL,CV of students with SPO’s
Keeping record of students CL/CV/Testinomials.
Undertaking regular monitoring and tracking of application statuses and providing relevant advice to students.
Examining relevant open jobs with organisations to learn skills, abilities, and credentials employers are seeking.
Assisting organisations to advertise their job openings.
Identify relevant job opening for students on job portals, website of organization.
Correspond with organisations interview dates and scheduling of any session.
Schedule and follow up on student interviews with organisations.

Being the single point of contact for placement related data