Employer Engagement Manager

About the Company:

Our client has created a sustainable livelihood program for urban disadvantaged youth. Fostering agency, workplace competencies, and skills in youth, unleashes social and economic transformation in the communities that the youth come from. The organization runs through a public-private partnership that empowers the Government, Corporates, NGOs, and Citizens to work together toward changing lives. The provision of location and capital expenditure for the organization is taken care of by the Government. Corporates contribute through CSR funds to provide operational expenses. NGOs come on board to provide various skilling courses to the youth. We are growing at a fast pace in various other cities in India.

Job Details:

Designation: Employment Engagement Manager

Reporting structure: Will be reporting to the Project Manager

Base Location: Pune, Maharashtra

Roles and responsibilities:

1. Develop, strengthen and proactively connect with new employers to increase our youth’s opportunities to secure a sustainable livelihood.

2. Maintain and strengthen current employer engagement activities including employer events, and support the Mentoring Programme and management of the vacancy portal and customer relationship management tool/platform to reflect the needs of our youth and maximize opportunities for employers to engage with our students.

3. Understand the context of youth enrolled in the program in order to inform and identify areas of action and use statistical analysis to improve employer engagement activity.

4. Establish, strengthen, and evaluate effective communication with skilling partners, trainers, mentors, and youth.

5. Working with the Program Head in partnership with central placement cells, and other programs within the organization to establish and evaluate priorities and provision.

6. Be responsible for the effective income generation of the youth above minimum wages.

7. Use expert knowledge, research, creative ideas, and activities to identify new opportunities for collaboration, within industry and across employment sectors, to enhance our delivery of activities to students to support their career planning and development.

8. Undertaking monitoring of progress via regular 1:1 meetings, positive engagement and communication with employers, and tracking the progress of our placed youth.

Eligibility:

● Any Graduate/Post Graduate with 5+ years of experience in the logistics sector, preferably from a corporate sales background.

What are we looking for:

● Excellent verbal and written communication skills and digital comfort.

● Self-motivated with a willingness to take initiative and solve complex problems.

● Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and sometimes high-pressure environment.

● Passion for social impact and belief in the impact that can be delivered by purpose-led engagement of the workforce.

● Exceptional articulation skills (written and verbal) to present - ideas, approaches, and solutions.

● Willing to travel.

● Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, & Excel) and Google Docs.