Campus Engagement Specialist

Job Title: Campus Engagement Specialist

About the Role:

We are seeking a driven professional to lead our campus outreach efforts and build strategic partnerships with vocational institutes, training providers, and industry stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of mobilizing large numbers of candidates onto our platform and possess excellent stakeholder management skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement a comprehensive campus engagement strategy to identify, recruit, and onboard high-quality candidates from vocational institutes and training providers.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key decision-makers at partner institutions, including Principals, Training & Placement Officers, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Plan and execute large-scale mobilization campaigns, including campus drives, job fairs, boot camps, and digital onboarding sessions.
• Manage the end-to-end candidate funnel, ensuring seamless registration, eligibility screening, skill-tagging, digital onboarding, and placement handover.
• Coordinate logistics for on-site events, including venue coordination, equipment setup, and team management.
• Conduct pre-screening, basic assessments, documentation verification, and ensure quality of candidate data captured.
• Work closely with recruitment and delivery teams to ensure smooth handover, follow-up for joining, and improve offer-to-join conversion.
• Drive candidate engagement through orientation sessions, employability workshops, and regular communication via calls/SMS/WhatsApp.
• Develop and maintain a robust MIS/dashboard to track outreach, registrations, conversions, placement outcomes, and institute-level metrics.
• Negotiate and close Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) or partnership agreements with institutes and training organizations.
• Represent our organization at local skilling events, government skilling centers, NSDC/State Skill Council meetings, and build referral channels.
• Train and manage field mobilization teams, set targets, run incentive schemes, and ensure SLA adherence.
• Capture feedback and insights from institutes and candidates to improve platform UX, onboarding flow, and mobilization playbooks.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 6–8 years of experience in mobilization, campus placements, institutional partnerships, community engagement, or recruitment.
• Strong existing contacts or demonstrable experience working with ITIs, Polytechnics, TPOs, training partners, or NSDC/state skill councils is a major advantage.
• Excellent stakeholder management – able to build trust with Principals, TPOs, training managers, and local authorities.
• Proven track record of planning and executing high-volume onboarding drives and events.
• Strong field orientation – comfortable with frequent travel, overnight stays, and working on-site at institutes and industrial clusters.
• Good command of English and Hindi; knowledge of an additional regional language relevant to target geographies is a plus.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple mobilization projects simultaneously.
• Proficiency with CRM/ATS tools, Google Sheets/Excel, and basic data dashboarding.
• Good presentation and training skills – comfortable running group sessions and short assessment tests.

Working Conditions & Travel:

• Field-heavy role – significant travel to vocational institutes across Delhi NCR and nearby industrial/education clusters; occasional travel to other states as needed.
• Flexible work hours during mobilization campaigns and events.

What We Offer:

• Opportunity to lead large-scale impact mobilization for vocational youth and enable real jobs at scale.
• Competitive compensation with performance-linked incentives.
• Exposure to cross-functional teams – product, recruitment, operations, and employer partnerships.