Assistant Manager - Academic and Student Affairs

Indian School of Business; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Indian School of Business is seeking a Senior Manager – ASA to own end-to-end academic course delivery, lead faculty conversations, convert pedagogy into robust course outlines, and govern academic compliance. The role partners with Sr.

Associate/Associate to manage operations and back-end execution. You will drive class schedules, evaluation windows, and budgets, while ensuring textbook choices, licenses, and system readiness are aligned with academy guidelines.

Qualifications

• Specific Skills: Strength in stakeholder management, academic policy, scheduling, and content curation (cases/sims/software).
• Tools: Salesforce, Atrium, LMS, Zoho, MS Excel/PowerPoint; strong written comms (faculty-facing).
• Desirable Experience: 5-10 years

Responsibilities

• 2 Scheduling & academic governance (class plan, audit/credit, eval windows, commercial) 20%
• 3 Faculty communications & evaluation loop (all emails, share results, ASA feedback) 15%
• 4 Stakeholder alignment (AA allocation, pre-term with AAs, cross-function syncs) 10%
• 5 Budget review & academic approvals 8%
• 6 Quality/sign-offs & systems oversight (Atrium/LMS readiness, Zoho oversight) 7%
• 7 Joint planning & final hand-off to AAs 5%

Skills

Stakeholder management

Academic policy

Scheduling

Content curation

Tools

Salesforce

Atrium

LMS

Zoho

MS Excel/PowerPoint

Job description

Reports to position: Senior Manager – ASA

Reportees to Position: Senior Associate/ Associate

Band: A4

Job Purpose

Own the end-to-end academic side of course delivery: lead all faculty conversations, convert pedagogy into a robust course outline and course pack plan, steer schedule decisions and evaluation windows, and govern academic compliance (audit/credit, budget review, commercial coordination). The Sr. Associate/Associate partners with you to execute the operational backend.

Job Outline

• Staffing check of faculty in Salesforce and confirmation with FAO.


• First outreach and all subsequent faculty communications (requirements, class plan, quizzes, simulations, software).


• Receive and reconfirm the Course Outline; ensure completeness against CLTE template; coordinate with IAA where required.


• Drive course pack content decisions (cases, simulations, software) and LRC procurement requests.


• Share/confirm textbook choices; ensure licence needs for Faculty & AAs are captured (ops handled by Sr. Associate/ Associate).

Scheduling & governance

• Build the class schedule (with Sr. Associate/ Associate support on personalisation/calendars) and lock evaluation preference windows (mid-term & end-term).


• Decide audit/credit status and note special approvals/exceptions.


• Coordinate with Commercial team on scope/budget assumptions; conduct budget review (tracking handled by Sr. Associate / Associate).

Evaluation & feedback loop

• Communicate evaluation plan; send faculty emails for evaluation windows; share evaluations with Faculty; request ASA feedback from Faculty.

Stakeholder alignment

• Confirm AA allocation with Academic Associate Manager.


• Lead Pre-Term meetings with AAs (delivered jointly with Sr. Associate/ Associate).


• Own final hand-off meeting with AAs (joint).

Quality & systems

• Oversee Zoho updates for milestones; sign-off on Atrium/LMS accuracy and course readiness before go-live.

Job Specification

Specific Skills: Strength in stakeholder management, academic policy, scheduling, and content curation (cases/sims/software).

Tools: Salesforce, Atrium, LMS, Zoho, MS Excel/PowerPoint; strong written comms (faculty-facing).

Desirable Experience: 5-10 years

S.No

Key Responsibilities

• 2 Scheduling & academic governance (class plan, audit/credit, eval windows, commercial) 20%


• 3 Faculty communications & evaluation loop (all emails, share results, ASA feedback) 15%


• 4 Stakeholder alignment (AA allocation, pre-term with AAs, cross-function syncs) 10%


• 5 Budget review & academic approvals 8%


• 6 Quality/sign-offs & systems oversight (Atrium/LMS readiness, Zoho oversight) 7%


• 7 Joint planning & final hand-off to AAs 5%

Weekend and late evening work involved depending on the requirements of courses /Guest sessions/ Academic area wise info sessions.