Lead, Student Engagement

School For Skills : Allied Health Sciences · India

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 ( 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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