Call for Applications | Manager – Alumni Relations

NLSIU invites online applications from accomplished professionals for the position of Manager – Alumni Relations (1 vacancy). The Manager – Alumni Relations will play an important role in ensuring a high level of interaction with the alumni community, developing innovative ways of engaging with groups of alumni and cultivate the University’s worldwide alumni and supporter community into a committed group of volunteers, donors and advocates.
This is a full-time position, based out of the NLSIU campus in Bengaluru involving field and desk work, and will report to the Director – Communications and External Relations, NLSIU.

About NLSIU

The National Law School of India University (NLSIU) was established in 1987 to be a pioneer in legal education. Over the last three decades the University has consistently been an innovative leader in legal education and research in India and has been ranked First among Law Universities in the National Institute Ranking Framework for the last seven years.

Role Description

A. Qualifications

Essential

• Graduate degree in any discipline (preferably Business Administration/Communications / Public Relations or related areas) with aggregate 55% marks. Provided, for candidates with benchmark disabilities, the minimum aggregate mark is 50%.

Desirable

• Post Graduate Degree in a related field.

B. Experience and Skills

• Minimum 6 years of overall work experience with at least 3 years in alumni engagement, programme development, stakeholder engagement, client servicing, financial aid initiatives, or a related field;
• Excellent ability to work with and manage a wide range of internal and external stakeholders and forge partnerships;
• Excellent research, communication and drafting skills;
• Excellent time management skills and ability to meet tight deadlines;
• Strong budget management skills, organisation skills and IT skills.

C. Role and Responsibilities

The Manager-Alumni Relations would serve as the primary point of contact between alumni and the University and will report to the Director Communications and External Relations.

They will be responsible for undertaking the following tasks:

• Continuous outreach to NLSIU alumni across years and programmes;
• Creation and maintenance of a platform to offer a uniform and easily accessible set of services to all alumni of NLSIU across programmes;
• Engagement on the platform and through other channels to promote and enhance alumni relations;
• Develop and implement alumni engagement strategy for NLSIU and support of key University priorities around student recruitment, global engagement, fundraising and employability;
• Develop innovative ways of engaging with groups of alumni to reach, inspire and cultivate the University’s worldwide alumni and supporter community into a committed group of volunteers, donors and advocates;
• Develop, maintain and regularly update repository/database of alumni profiles and alumni success stories to position alumni at the heart of the University’s profile, both nationally and internationally and to support key University priorities including employability, recruitment and fundraising;
• Works with departments (academics, professional learning etc) to launch course-based, batch-wise, state-wise, country-wise alumni groups and associations;
• Lead the creation and launch of alumni services;
• Coordinate with the University communications team on alumni engagement to ensure the successful delivery of engagement activities and promotion of alumni success stories;
• Coordinates and produces reports, proposals, and analyses for management, to include monthly budget to actual reviews of areas of programmatic responsibility, periodic reports to reflect relevant data gathering and analysis, and post-event reports and recommendations;
• Conceptualise and organise events and activities for the benefit of alumni communities;
• Identify and develop opportunities for alumni fundraising and support.

D. Tenure

Permanent basis till the age of superannuation i.e. 60 years, subject to confirmation after the satisfactory completion of two years’ probation.

Selection Process

• Selection will take place in two parts.
  a. Part 1 shall consist of review of applications by the University. Upon review of applications, candidates will be shortlisted in a 1:5 ratio as against the number of vacancies for the Interview round (Part 2).
  b. Part 2 will be an interview round wherein the Interview Selection Panel shall score candidates out of a total of 50 marks for selection to the post.
• NLSIU reserves the right to have more than one round of interviews either in person or over video conferencing and to conduct independent background checks on the candidates.
• NLSIU reserves the right to request for references from people who are not listed in the application form but would be familiar with the candidate’s previous work.

How To Apply?

Please use the Google form here to apply.

Learn more about the role and application process here.

Deadline

Interested individuals are requested to go through the University’s website, fill in the Application Form and upload the certificates to support their claim for educational qualifications, age, experience etc. on or before May 26, 2025 (5 pm IST).