Placement Associate

QUEST Alliance_Gujarat; Ujjain; On-site; INR 325,000 - 389,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Accident insurance

Mediclaim

RFS allowance

Internet allowance

Childcare support

Menstrual leave

Wellbeing programs

Counselling sessions

Job summary

Quest Alliance seeks a Placement Associate to strengthen career pathways for ITI trainees by coordinating with placement officers, institutes, industry partners and youth.

You will drive placement outcomes, support employability readiness, and foster industry engagement across regions, with travel required to partner institutes and events.

You will institutionalize placement practices, track data, and help organise boot camps and campus drives with state teams.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in Social Work, Management, HR, or a related field.
• 1-2 years of placement coordination or youth skilling experience.
• Experience with government institutions, skilling programs, or NGOs preferred.
• Willingness to travel across districts and regions.
• Strong coordination and relationship management with institutions and partners.
• Experience delivering employability or soft skills training.
• Proficient with data collection and reporting tools, especially MS Office.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work with diverse stakeholders across geographies.
• Self-motivated, organized, and result-oriented.
• Passion for youth empowerment and skilling ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Provide placement support to ITIs, NSTIs and VTIs.
• Build a database of employers through networking.
• Consolidate placement and workshop reports.
• Submit reports on time for review meetings.
• Ensure data is available on time.
• Organize industry engagement activities and employer events.
• Plan and conduct employer engagement events including campus drives.
• Coordinate capacity building of placement officers.
• Travel across locations as required.
• Create, maintain and share required program reports.

Skills

Placement coordination

Recruitment

Youth skilling

Data collection

Reporting

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Communication skills

Travel readiness

Education

Graduate degree in Social Work / Management / HR

Tools

MS Office (Excel/PowerPoint)

Job description

Job Description:

As a Placement Associate supporting the ITI ecosystem, you will play a crucial role in strengthening the career pathways of trainees by coordinating with placement officers, institute management, industry partners, and youth. Your primary responsibility will be to improve placement outcomes, enhance employability readiness, and foster meaningful industry partnerships. You will also play a key role in institutionalizing placement practices, supporting data tracking, and facilitating events and industry engagement initiatives at the institute level.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Providing Placement support to Industrial Training Institutes, NSTIs and Vocational Training Institutes:
• Building a robust database of employers by networking with employers, industry bodies
• Consolidate placement and workshop reports.
• Submit reports on time for review meetings and enter the details in the database in a timely manner.
• Ensure all the relevant data is available on time.
• Ensuring support to program implementation partners to organise Industry engagement activities effectively and monitoring the same.
• Building capacity of program implementation partners to plan and organise placement related activities at their institutes.
• Anchoring and executing Placements strategies & plans in the region.
• Making an annual plan and calendar of placement activities in the region by collaborating with regional teams.
• Planning and Conducting Employer engagement events (Talks, Walk-ins, Campus Drive)
• Take the ownership of the placement targets for the region and as per the project’s needs.
• Anchor Industry Connect Fellow’s engagement through regular calls and review meetings.
• Building an active working relationship with representatives of companies, Industry bodies and Placement officers
• Planning and Conducting Employer engagement events Including placement fairs.
• Planning, Meeting & Exploring options of Apprenticeship, Internships, On Job Training, Career Connect Activities with Existing & Prospective Employers for candidates on a regular basis.
• Supporting state team in organizing & facilitating Job Readiness Training boot camps, Co- facilitating placement session
• Create, maintain and share reports as per Program Requirements.
• Open to travel across locations for work.
• Coordinate & Facilitate Capacity Building of Placement Officers for ITI’s & VTI’s
• Planning and organising trainings for Placement officers
• Orientation on placement systems and best practices.
• Conducting Demo’s on Industry engagement activities.

Requirements

• Graduate degree in Social Work, Management, HR, or a related field.
• 1-2 years of experience in placement coordination, recruitment, youth skilling, or working within the ITI or vocational ecosystem.
• Experience working with government institutions, skilling programs, or NGOs preferred.
• Willingness to travel extensively across districts and regions
• Placement process knowledge and experience engaging with industries.
• Strong coordination and relationship management skills with institutions and partners.
• Experience in delivering employability or soft skills training.
• Comfort with data collection and reporting tools.
• Proficiency in MS Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work with diverse stakeholders across institutes and geographies
• Self-motivated, organized, and result-oriented.
• Passion for youth empowerment and the skilling ecosystem.

Benefits

Salary: The pay band for the position starts at Rs. 32,000 /- per month (cost to company) (The salary offered will be commensurate with the experience and expertise of the candidate)

In addition to your compensation, you are also eligible for a suite of benefits designed to support your well-being and growth:

• Comprehensive Personal Accident Insurance covering up to ₹10,00,000 annually
• Mediclaim Insurance covering up to ₹3,00,000 annually, supported through our insurance partner, who also offer additional wellness benefits
• Reach for the Stars (RFS) amount of up to ₹5,000 to support your self-learning and knowledge-building efforts
• Internet allowance of up to ₹750/month, reimbursable based on actual usage to support flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• For employees with children under the age of 6 years, Quest offers childcare or day care fee support through a monthly matching contribution of up to ₹3,000, helping you create a supportive work-life balance
• Offering Menstrual Leave, 1 day per month across the country
• Access to emotional health and wellbeing programs such as: Group sessions worth ₹8,000 per session fully covered by the organisation
• 1:1 counselling sessions (worth ₹2,000 per session), fully covered by the organisation

At Quest Alliance, we pride ourselves on being an Equal Opportunities employer, embracing applications from all segments of the community. We are committed to ensuring that every applicant and employee is treated with fairness and respect, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital status, social status, caste, religious belief, age, or any other factor that is irrelevant to performance. Your individuality is valued and respected within our organization.

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