Job Opportunity for Program Associate – Placements at Quest Alliance in Ernakulam

About Quest Alliance:

At Quest Alliance, we transform learning ecosystems through education technology, capacity building, and collaboration to build 21st-century skills for learners and facilitators.

We are a not-for-profit trust that focuses on research-led innovation and advocacy in the field of youth skills development, teaching, and learning. We engage with educators, civil society, government institutions and corporate organizations to demonstrate and enable scalable and replicable solutions in school education and vocational training.

At Quest, you will get the opportunity to apply your skills and contribute to addressing issues around quality education and skills training. The organization gives you the space to learn and grow in a fun and engaging environment.  We have an eclectic group of people working at Quest drawn from diverse disciplines including Education, Technology, Design, Youth Development and Business.

About Job role: 

The Placement Assistance will be part of QUEST Alliance’s Youth Employability program – Youth Program  and will be responsible to be a bridge between young people and employment opportunities, he/she will play an important role in achieving its end goal which is to help young people initiate their career journeys by directly interfacing with employers/industries and Placement officers of Vocational Training Institutes (VTIs)  & Industrial Training Institute (ITI’s) in the region.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Providing Placement Support to Industrial Training Institutes and Vocational Training Institutes :

• Ensuring support to program implementation partners to organise Industry engagement activities effectively and monitoring the same.
• Building capacity of Placement officers of program implementation partners to plan and organise placement related activities at their institutes.
• Planning and organising trainings for Placement officers
• Orientation on placement systems and best practices.
• Conducting Demo’s on Industry engagement activities.

Anchoring and Executing Placements strategies & plans in the state of Kerala

• Making an annual plan and calendar of placement activities in the region by collaborating with regional teams.
• Planning and Conducting Employer engagement events.
• Anchor Placement officers engagement through regular calls and review meetings.
• Planning and Conducting Employer engagement events Including placement fairs. 

Relationship Building 

• Building an active working relationship with representatives of companies, Industry bodies and Placement officers.
• Building a robust database of employers by networking with employers, industry bodies to make it available to program implementation partners.

Team Management  

• You may have to manage interns or fellows in the program as relevant
• Ensure they have clear performance objectives and development plans. 
• Support, mentor and coach them as part of their professional development and help them to be highly effective in their work.
• Serve as a role model always 
• Ensure human resource policy and procedure is adhered to by team.
• Ensure their welfare with support from the People team
• Lead the recruitment and induction of them 

Requirements

Skills Required:

• Graduate or equivalent
• Experience in placement of candidates at Fresher level of a NGO or of Technical institutes is preferred.
• Knowledge of liasioning with companies and experience of industry connect including the role of placement of students within organizations.
• Previous experience of customer/client contact especially establishing and developing effective links with companies in the relevant discipline/field.
• Experience of working & training of young adults for Jobs, On the Job Training, etc.
• Good computer skills (i.e. Good at Data Analysis)
• Must be able to work to meet the needs of the placements service.
• Willing to undertake external visits & should be open to traveling across locations
• A team player and able to negotiate and consult with all those engaged with

Attributes 

• Must be able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the placements service. 

• Willing to undertake external visits & should be open to travelling across Kerala 

• Must be a team player and be able to negotiate and consult with all those engaged internally and externally within the placement space