Associate - Azim Premji Scholarship

About Azim Premji Scholarship

The Foundation launched the Azim Premji Scholarship in The scholarship supports girl students from disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue higher education. This programme will be launched in phases starting with select geographies and will cover the entire country in the next few years. For more details, please visit our website.

Role & Responsibilities:

Scholarship Support Team will be responsible for end-to-end support and processing of the scholarship applications on the Scholarship Management System (portal) and anchoring the external support team. This will include:

• Responding to queries during the application submission process
• Supporting the members of the extended team in screening of applications, applicants in filling out the applications on the portal
• Verification of applications as per the eligibility criteria
• Connecting with applicants for additional documents as and when required
• Supporting existing applicants with the renewal process on the portal
• Writing reports and short summaries
• Any additional tasks related to the above responsibilities that may arise

Skills & Qualifications:

• 2 plus years of relevant experience, for example, in the banking sector is desired
• An undergraduate degree in any discipline from a reputed institution
• Basic operating and data handling skills and should be proficient with MS suite (Excel, Word and PowerPoint).
• Good communication and people skills with language proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking English and any one or more of the regional languages – Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Telugu, and Odia