Alumni, Industry & Development Officer

ABOUT VINUNIVERSITY
VinUniversity (VinUni: vinuni.edu.vn/) is the first private, not-for-profit Vietnamese university established based on international standards. The university integrates the models of excellent international universities with the unique cultural and economic characteristics of Vietnam, to make a breakthrough in Vietnamese higher education and to become a world-class university.
VinUniversity has strategic collaborations with the world's leading universities, including Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania. These universities have become close advisors and crucial enablers in establishing the four colleges at VinUniversity: College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business and Management, College of Engineering and Computer Science, and College of Health Sciences. Every aspect of the University: its curricula, research, faculty, student body, facilities, and campus life, is being developed to meet the highest standards set by the world's leading accrediting and ranking organizations, such as ABET, AACSB, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and Times Higher Education (THE).VinUniversity's founding benefactor, Vingroup, is one of the biggest private conglomerates in Asia with the largest market capitalization value in Vietnam. As a multisector corporation, Vingroup focuses on three main areas: Technology; Industry; and Property Services. VinUniversity is proud to be a part of the Vingroup ecosystem, giving its students opportunities to connect with several high-quality research institutes (such as VinAI, and VinBigData), pioneering industrial enterprises (such as VinFast), and leading Vietnamese companies (such as Vinpearl, Vinmec, and Vinhomes).
ABOUT THE POSITION
The Alumni, Industry and Development Officer will report to the Head of Alumni, Industry & Development, and will play a key role in university-industry partnership, career services support for VinUni students, alumni and alumni engagement.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
1. Industry Engagement activities:
- Support the Department Head to develop and prepare VinUniversity's annual communication plan to industry and other relevant stakeholders.
- Draft engaging messaging for industry and other relevant stakeholders.
- Coordinate key engagement materials and training resources for use by engagement team colleagues.
- Support the Alumni, Industry & Development team's work with other departments, to ensure that processes are in-line with the engagement materials and communications.
- Support the Head in engaging other Vingroup's business units and major companies.
- Maintain Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Career Service Management (CSM) systems and ensure the integrity of the data.
- Be responsible for ad-hoc projects as required by line manager such as analysis of key data points within corporate responses to inform campaign outreach.
- Organize meetings and in charge of the reception of university guests to VinUni.
- Manage the budget of the Department.
2. Career Readiness and Alumni activities:
- Support and provide career guidance to recent graduates and alumni.
- Educate students about career exploration and application process, resume and cover letter building, tests, interviews, assessment centers, job expectations and professionalism.
- Provide 1-1 career counselling to students and alumni
- Maintain regular contacts with companies for new job opportunities.
- Provide work placement assistance to students according to industry partner's and VinUni policies
- Hold seminars on interview skills and job search strategies.
- Organize job fairs, career programs, and other career activities.
- Conduct research to analyze employment trends both locally and nationally.
- Develop strong relationships with potential employers to build internship and career opportunities for students.
3. Operation & Administration:
- Database: Maintain and improve the career placement database that can capture collaborations between the university and industry partners.
- Record & Filling system: Maintain and update the record of keeping and filing system of job postings, employer contacts, industry partners, alumni database and status, etc.
- Administration: Assist in the administration of the operations of the jobs in charge.
- Stakeholder management: Ensure quality and timely responses to a variety of written requests from industry partners, students for information relating to career services via telephone, correspondence and/or electronic mail.