Director of University Relationships

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This position is with Kaaiser , one of the brands under Manifest Global , which also includes Cialfo, BridgeU and Explore . Please note that this is a 5.5-day working role. What This Role Is The India-to-Australia student corridor is one of the largest legal human migration flows on earth. Every year, tens of thousands of young Indians leave for Australian universities. Behind each one is a family that has taken a decision - often a loan, often a home re-mortgaged, often a generational bet - to move one person across an ocean in the hope that a whole family's trajectory will shift. When it works, it does. A single student placed in Melbourne or Sydney becomes, within a decade, the financial gravity that lifts parents, siblings, cousins, and sometimes an entire neighbourhood. The counselor a family trusts with that decision is not doing a transaction. They are redirecting a life. On the other end of that corridor, in an international office in Sydney or Melbourne, a Pro-Vice-Chancellor is looking at a market that has shifted under her feet. Visa policy has tightened. Half her agent network is consolidating or closing. Her enrolment targets have not moved, but the infrastructure she relied on to hit them has. She needs fewer partners. She needs deeper ones. She needs someone who understands both her university's next decade and the Indian family living rooms where those decisions actually get made. That person does not exist in most counseling agencies. The question is whether Kaaiser becomes the one that sends them. Kaaiser has been the trusted name in India since 1997. Not because of marketing. Because of outcomes. Because of relationships built over decades with Australian universities that know Kaaiser delivers the right student to the right programme, and does it at volume. That credibility is real. The question now is what we build on top of it - and what it becomes once it plugs into something larger. You are not a relationship manager. You are Kaaiser's most senior strategic voice with Australian universities - the person who shapes how those partnerships are structured, what they are worth, and where they go over the next five years. You will own the portfolio end to end: from the commission conversation to the multi-year roadmap, from strategic co-creation with a vice-chancellor's international office to operational delivery in the student markets. You will define what the India-Australia corridor looks like for the next decade. Why This Matters Beyond Kaaiser Manifest Global - the group Kaaiser is part of - is building the operating system for global human capital mobility. The thesis is straightforward and large. By 2030, developed economies will be short 85 million workers. Emerging economies will have hundreds of millions of young people looking for pathways into education and work that their domestic systems cannot provide. $700 billion flows back every year in remittances from people who have already made that crossing - more than every aid budget on earth combined. Education is the front door to that migration. Most of that $700B starts with someone, somewhere, deciding where a student should go to university. Right now, the infrastructure connecting those two sides is broken. Fragmented agents. Opaque university relationships. Families navigating the single largest decision of their lives through whatever counselor happened to be in their neighbourhood. Manifest is building the system that replaces that - Cialfo for the 2,000+ schools where the decision begins, BridgeU for international schools globally, Explore for the 1,000+ universities on the other side, and Kaaiser for the counseling relationships that actually carry a family across the line in one of the largest corridors on the planet. This role sits at the thickest part of that pipe. The India-Australia corridor is one of the highest-volume student flows in the world, and Kaaiser is one of its most trusted operators. What you build here is not a partnership portfolio. It is a load-bearing wall in the infrastructure Manifest is putting up. Done right, it becomes the template for how every major student corridor gets restructured over the next decade. Why This Is Worth Your Next Decade Most senior roles in international education are jobs. This one is a bet - on an industry that is being structurally rebuilt, on a company positioned to rebuild it, and on a corridor that sits at the center of the largest human capital flow on the planet. The thesis is simple. Moving talent across borders is the most capital-efficient poverty reduction mechanism available - more efficient than aid, more durable than trade, more compounding than any domestic intervention. Every student Kaaiser places well is a node in that system. Do it badly and a family loses a generation of savings. Do it well and a family's economic trajectory changes permanently, and a university gets the student they actually needed, and a destination economy gets the

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