About Plutus Education:

Plutus Education is an education and upskilling platform focused on finance, accounting, and professional certification programs such as ACCA, CMA, CPA, CFA, IFRS, ESG, investment banking, and other career-focused programs. We support students and working professionals with structured learning, mentorship, exam preparation, and career-oriented outcomes.

As Plutus Education expands its institutional growth vertical, we are looking for a Head - Institutional Partnerships who can build strong relationships with colleges and universities and convert those relationships into meaningful student engagement and enrollment opportunities.

Role Overview:

The Head - Institutional Partnerships will be responsible for identifying, approaching, onboarding, and managing colleges and universities as strategic partners for Plutus Education. The role is focused on building campus-level engagement, creating student awareness around finance and accounting careers, and driving a qualified student funnel for Plutus Education's courses and counselling teams.

This person will work closely with college management, placement cells, commerce and finance departments, student committees, career development cells, and academic coordinators to run seminars, webinars, workshops, campus sessions, student communities, certification awareness drives, and other engagement-led initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

1. College & University Partnership Strategy:

- Identify and build a pipeline of colleges, universities, commerce departments, finance clubs, placement cells, and career development cells across target regions.

- Create a structured institutional partnership strategy for programs such as ACCA, CMA, CPA, CFA, IFRS, ESG, investment banking, and related finance careers.

- Map institutions based on student profile, course relevance, decision-makers, engagement potential, and enrollment opportunity.

- Build partnership models including campus seminars, co-branded workshops, faculty development sessions, student ambassador programs, placement cell collaborations, and career guidance programs.

2. Institutional Outreach & Relationship Building:

- Reach out to principals, deans, heads of department, placement officers, training and placement cells, faculty coordinators, and student committee leaders.

- Pitch Plutus Education's learner outcomes, finance certification expertise, student counselling approach, and campus engagement value proposition.

- Develop strong long-term relationships with colleges and universities to ensure repeated engagements across semesters and academic cycles.

- Represent Plutus Education in campus meetings, institutional discussions, education fairs, conclaves, and student engagement forums.

3. Campus Engagement & Student Funnel Creation:

- Plan and execute campus activations such as career guidance seminars, finance career workshops, ACCA awareness sessions, placement-readiness sessions, and certification counselling drives.

- Work with colleges to generate student participation through official communication channels, class announcements, faculty coordination, student groups, and campus committees.

- Create a qualified student funnel by capturing leads from campus sessions, nurturing interested students, and routing them to the counselling or sales team.

- Design engagement calendars for each partner institution to maintain continuous student touchpoints instead of one-time activities.

4. Partnership Closure & Onboarding:

- Own the end-to-end partnership process from prospecting and first meeting to proposal, agreement, onboarding, and activation.

- Prepare institutional proposals, collaboration notes, pitch decks, engagement plans, and commercial or non-commercial partnership structures.

- Coordinate with internal sales, marketing, academic, content, operations, and leadership teams to execute campus programs smoothly.

- Ensure each partner institution has a clear