Niharika Barua
London
Summary
Driven management professional with excellent business acumen and broad experience across employability/placements and operations roles. Highly adaptable and self-motivated leader with proven ability to manage diverse stakeholders. Offers strong analysis and innovation to identify solutions to challenging problems. Collaborative team player with excellent interpersonal, communication and conflict resolution skills.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work history
Placement Manager
Applied Business Academy
London
06.2021 - Current
- Upskilled students and graduates through targeted training opportunities, enhancing team capabilities.
- Applied expertise in team leadership to address productivity and performance issues, motivating staff to achieve KPIs.
- Planned and managed resources and budget to support and deliver objectives.
- Provide strategic leadership and operational management to ensure the delivery of an expert, innovative, agile and modern student and graduate employability service through a proactive careers team that supports students to achieve their potential, including the provision of information, advice and guidance.
- Ensure that the student experience when engaging with Careers services is excellent through the use of feedback loops and customer engagement to drive continuous improvement and innovation in the services offered.
- Oversee the provision of professional advice, training and education in all employability support areas to enable Careers staff to be empowered to make changes to deliver value for money and to deliver a culture of continuous improvement.
- Consult with the full range of stakeholders, e.g. academic departments, faculties, students union, external employers etc. to ensure that services and associated policies continue to develop to meet the needs of the various stakeholders.
- Ensure that the systems underlying the Career service are adequately supported and resourced and that the data quality within these systems is high to deliver useful management information; Career.
Placement lead
Applied business academy
London
09.2019 - 05.2021
- Provided one-to-one coaching sessions to identify relevant training opportunities.
- Built positive relationships with employers to source placements for students.
- Focusing on the administration work and data analysation
- To line manage the Work Placement Officers to source, identify and gain suitable work placement opportunities for students, to include coordination, monitoring and evaluation of these work placements.
- Assist students with queries relating to forms, reports, placement visits and other aspects of their placement.
- Contact students to ensure timely submission of documentation and participation in all other requirements of the placement unit.
- Act as a point of contact for students, staff, employers and other external stakeholders, dealing with enquiries and providing advice and guidance in a professional and timely manner.
- Establish, maintain and use clear and effective means of communication with staff and students
Education
Master of Science - Human resource management
Birkbeck, University of London
London 09/2018 - 09/2019
Master of Business Administration - International business and marketing
Amity university, India
India 07/2014 - 05/2016
Skills
- Transformational leadership
- Change management
- Strategic consultancy
- Operations oversight
- Policy development
- Business administration
- Conflict resolution
- Performance development planning
- Coaching leadership
- Agile project management
- Motivational leadership
- Outstanding communication
- Strategic planning
- Process improvements
Languages
English
Fluent
Hindi
Native
Korean
Beginner
Punjabi
Advanced
Timeline
Placement Manager
Applied Business Academy
06.2021 - Current
Placement lead
Applied business academy
09.2019 - 05.2021
Master of Science - Human resource management
Birkbeck, University of London
09/2018 - 09/2019
Master of Business Administration - International business and marketing
Amity university, India
07/2014 - 05/2016
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