Associate Director, University Enrolment

What This Role Is Every year, hundreds of thousands of students across India decide they want to study abroad. They find a counselor, start a conversation, and enter a process that will shape the next four years of their life and, behind it, the financial trajectory of an entire family. The quality of that counseling conversation is the single biggest variable in whether the outcome is good.

Not the university ranking. Not the destination. The conversation.

Student Placements is Manifest Global's enrollment engine. University Enrolment Advisors guide students from first contact through university shortlisting, application, offer, and deposit confirmed, across destinations including the UK, Australia, the US, and Canada. The India cohort is the largest and most consequential.

It sits at the intersection of Cialfo's K12 school network, Explore's university partnerships, and Kaaiser's deep institutional relationships in the India corridor. The pipeline is real. The conversion potential is significant.

What the function needs now is someone to own it with the seriousness that warrants. This is a regional leadership role. You own the India UEA team, the India enrollment funnel, and the India regional target.

That is the primary mandate. The second mandate sits on top of it: as the most experienced counseling operator in the UEA structure, you will own the global counseling standard across every region where UEAs sit, building the playbook, the training curriculum, and the quality framework that every advisor, regardless of geography, is measured against. You are not just running a region.

You are setting the bar for what good counseling looks like across the entire function. What Makes This Role Different There are regional leads for other UEA geographies. What separates this seat is the additive scope.

You own yours and then build the intellectual infrastructure that every other regional lead uses. The counseling playbook you write, the training curriculum you design, the quality index you instrument on platform with the product team: those are global artifacts. They will shape how a UEA in China handles a shortlisting conversation, how a UEA in Southeast Asia pitches a school counselor, how a new advisor anywhere in the world gets onboarded.

That is a different kind of leverage. The broader overseas education industry is contracting. Manifest Global is growing.

The reason is structural: no standalone counseling agency operates with the school network, university partnerships, and direct counseling capability that Manifest has assembled. A UEA backed by Cialfo's 2,000+ school relationships, Explore's 1,000+ university partners, and Kaaiser's corridor depth is a fundamentally different proposition to a student than an advisor operating in isolation. The role you are stepping into exists to make sure every UEA, in every region, can articulate and deliver on that advantage in the room with a student.

The timing matters. The India UEA team is not scaling tenfold overnight. The size is manageable enough that you can lead it with real proximity while simultaneously building the global standard.

That window will not stay open indefinitely. In twelve months, with additional resources coming in across regions, the global L D mandate becomes significantly heavier. The person who gets in now shapes what gets built, not just who gets trained on it.