School For Skills : Allied Health Sciences
Website:
schoolforskills.in
Job details:
Position: Lead, Student Engagement
School for Skills: Allied Health Sciences
Location: Head Office (Kolkata), with regular travel to other centres
About Us:
School for Skills: Allied Health Sciences - SFS (https://www.schoolforskills.in/) is a premier paramedical educational institution dedicated to nurturing the next generation of healthcare professionals. SFS has 11 centres in India in 6 states (Meghalaya, West Bengal, Assam, MP, UP and Maharashtra), and is planning to double its annual capacity in next 2-3 years. 4 of its centres are set up in collaboration with IITs (Kharagpur, Guwahati, Indore) and NIT Meghalaya. In last 13 years, SFS has trained over 5500 youths (65% girls), over 75% of whom are now engaged in 90+ hospitals in almost all major cities in India.
About the Role:
This position is for someone who enjoys direct engagement with students, parents and communities. You will drive enrolment conversations, counsel prospective students face-to-face, manage high-volume phone/video follow-ups, and build the systems that keep students engaged from first enquiry through to alumni status.
Key Responsibilities:
1. In-Person Counselling & Admissions
● Conduct face-to-face counselling with prospective students and families at centres, schools, and community events
● Convert enquiries into admissions through structured, empathetic, one-on-one guidance
● Represent SFS at career fairs, school outreach sessions, and community mobilization drives
2. Over-the-Phone & Virtual Counselling
● Manage high-volume telephonic and video counselling for students and parents unable to visit in person
● Maintain strong telephone etiquette and follow-up discipline across a distributed, multi-centre pipeline
● Build counselling scripts/protocols that centre staff can replicate consistently
3. Student Engagement
● Design and execute the student engagement calendar — orientation drives, peer mentoring, on-ground activities — implemented uniformly across all centres
● Plan and roll out parent/guardian engagement activities (open houses, info sessions, home visits) addressing real motivating and financial concerns of families
● Build and manage a referral network among parents, alumni and local opinion-leaders to drive admissions
4. Team-Building & Capacity Development
● Train and coach centre-level administrative and faculty staff to run a professional, informative, result-oriented counselling process
● Standardize counselling and admissions practices across centres through hands-on training
● Build a motivated, accountable student engagement team at each centre
5. Alumni Relations
● Establish the SFS Alumni Association from the ground up
● Design and run an ongoing alumni engagement calendar (mentorship, referrals, success-story outreach) that feeds into admissions and brand credibility
Qualification & Experience
● Post-graduate in Sociology, Psychology, Communication, Business Administration, HR or related field
● Minimum 7 years total experience, including at least 3 years with youth groups and 3–4 years in the health sector
Must-Have Attributes
● Genuine understanding of youth aspiration, including among girls and from rural areas — their financial realities and decision-making behaviour
● Track record of motivating such youth toward health-sector careers, not just informing them
● Patience and presence to engage parents, guardians, teachers and local opinion-leaders in person
● Strong telephone/video counselling discipline
● Flexibility to travel
● Fluency in Bengali, Hindi and English languages
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