Manager- Industry Academic Collaboration

  • Full-time

Company Description

Customized Energy Solutions is one of the fastest growing energy consulting & services companies, operating in North America for the past 25 years with global presence in Canada, Japan, Vietnam and in India. Customized is working with over 500 clients across the value chain of electricity industry globally. We started our India operations as Customized Energy Solutions India Pvt. Ltd in 2010. The company set-up demands individuals to work on their own to achieve required goals and to meet the deadlines. Visit www.ces-ltd.com

The India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) was launched in 2012 by Customized Energy Solutions to promote energy storage, electric mobility, green hydrogen & micro grid technologies and their applications in India. Please find more information on IESA at www.indiaesa.info/

IESA launched IESA Academy (https://www.indiaesa.info/academy) in 2018 to focus on providing trainings, skill development solutions and capacity building activities including physical, virtual and hybrid training, LMS platform and corporate trainings etc.

 

Job Description

The major role of the candidate is to drive industry academic collaboration in energy storage, electric mobility, and green hydrogen space. Drive communication with Dean, Chancellor, VC, HoD etc. The candidate also needs to lead IESA student memberships and University/Institution memberships. The candidate will have following key responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with Academic and Industry stakeholders
  • Coordinate joint proposal development for research projects
  • Lead IESA student membership and University/Institution membership
  • Manage and coordinate promotional activities to increase the membership base among students and institutions
  • Encourage students and institutions to avail maximum membership benefits
  • Monitor and deliver the benefits to these membership categories.
  • Organise training programs, guest lectures and webinars for academic communities
  • Explore joint training courses and develop Train The Trainers program
  • Promote student volunteer-ship and student competition in the new emerging areas
  • Develop communication with Dean, Chancellor, VC, HoD and Professors of the institutes
  • Manage IESA fellowship & internship programs
  • Develop partnership with similar organisations to run Hackathons, collages, e-Mobility races, product/ solution developments etc.

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree with Minimum 5 years of work experience in relevant domain
  • Good communication skills, Ability to work in a team.
  • Good level of MS Office proficiency. Good with Power point presentations. Excellent verbal and writing skills.
  • Proven experience as Industry-Academic coordinator will be preferred.

Additional Information

This is a full-time position with 6 months probationary period. In this capacity, the candidate will be paid a competitive salary with industry standards. In addition, he/she will be immediately eligible upon employment to participate in benefits generally made available to full-time employees which include but are not limited to an annual bonus, health insurance, and gym membership.