Placement Coordinator

Overview

Lead college partnerships, institutional engagement, industrial visits, workshops, and student placement operations while managing the day-to-day growth of JobBasket.in, the platform connecting candidates and recruiters.

What you'll do

• Identify and develop partnerships with colleges, universities, engineering and management institutions.
• Build relationships with principals, department heads, Training & Placement Officers (TPOs), and institutional decision-makers.
• Present proposals, coordinate MoUs and commercial discussions, and maintain a pipeline of qualified institutional opportunities.
• Own college contact databases, meetings, follow-ups, proposals and partner relationship management.
• Plan and execute industrial visits, technical workshops, seminars, webinars, guest lectures, boot camps and career sessions.
• Coordinate trainers, industry experts, host companies, venues, registrations, logistics and student communication.
• Maintain monthly college activity calendars, track attendance and feedback, and convert engagement into partnership and training opportunities.
• Own routine JobBasket operations, including employer onboarding, relevant job postings, candidate engagement and application monitoring.
• Keep job listings current and accurate; coordinate recruiter responses and candidate-recruiter interactions.
• Work with the technology and marketing teams on platform issues, user experience, awareness, and feature improvements.
• Monitor active recruiters, verified jobs, candidate registrations, applications and platform adoption.
• Source recurring openings and build hiring partnerships with corporate HR teams, recruiters and staffing agencies.
• Coordinate placements for eligible Training Basket students across Cloud & DevOps, Data Science, AI/ML, Cybersecurity, Networking, Digital Marketing, Software Development and other active programs.
• Maintain placement-ready candidate records; match skills to openings; coordinate resumes, assessments, interviews, offers and joining confirmations.
• Organize placement drives and virtual hiring events, track outcomes, and work with trainers to address employability gaps.
• Maintain accurate college, recruiter, student and placement records in CRM, preferably Zoho CRM.
• Produce weekly MIS reports and actionable insights covering tie-ups, events, portal growth, interview pipelines and confirmed placements.
• Coordinate with training, sales, marketing and technology teams; own timelines, follow-ups and process documentation.
• Adopt AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude and identify opportunities for workflow automation and productivity improvement.

What you'll need

• 3–6 years of relevant experience in institutional business development, college relations, training and placement, recruitment or EdTech.
• Proven experience organizing institutional activities and coordinating hiring or placement processes.
• Strong communication, negotiation, field networking, project execution and stakeholder management skills.
• Working knowledge of CRM, Excel/Google Sheets and MIS.

Nice to have

• Existing networks among college TPOs, university representatives, corporate HR teams and recruiters.
• Preferably Zoho CRM experience.
• Familiarity with job portals and AI tools.

Details

• Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.