Niyas Ali K

Driving end-to-end talent acquisition with a strong focus on building scalable, efficient recruitment systems and processes. Leading the development of a proactive and high-quality talent pipeline aligned with organizational needs. Strengthening people practices by prioritizing team well-being and fostering a culture of care, ownership, and performance. Continuously enhancing systems and processes to improve efficiency, consistency, and long-term organizational effectiveness.

• Lead end to end recruitment across program • Strengthen talent acquisition processes including sourcing, screening, interview design, and candidate experience contributing to a 50% reduction in average time to hire • Design and support onboarding to help new team members transition smoothly into their roles and the organisation • Support the implementation of key people policies and ensure compliance with statutory requirements • Support career growth and internal movement conversations, helping team members navigate their journeys within the organisation • Anchored key engagement initiatives including Team Together, creating spaces for reflection, connection, and alignment across the organisation • Contributed to reducing overall attrition to 50%, by strengthening hiring quality, onboarding, and employee engagement practices • Supported and implemented wellbeing initiatives, contributing to a 12% increase in team wellbeing scores • Tools Used _- Keka HR , Manatal

• Developed and formalised key HR policies, and created the organisation’s HR handbook to bring clarity and consistency to people practices • Built the recruitment strategy and designed end to end hiring processes, including sourcing channels, interview structure, and selection workflows • Managed end to end recruitment, coordinating with hiring teams and supporting effective hiring decisions • Built partnerships with colleges and alternative talent pools to strengthen the organisation’s hiring pipeline • Anchored performance management processes, supporting goal setting, reviews, and development conversations • Identified competency gaps and supported learning and development initiatives for team members • Acted as a People & Culture partner to teams, supporting managers with HR inputs, employee concerns, and people related decisions • Managed core HR operations including onboarding, exits, attendance, leave management, employee records, and HR systems • Served as Faculty Member for the School of Management, mentoring students in recruitment and contributing to HR curriculum development • Tools used: Zoho People, Recruiterflow

-Design and execute the entire strategy for Recruiting & hiring Code India Fellows. -Managing the HR Functions, including employee productivity, attendance, Accounts, leaves, Onboarding, Exits, Salary Employee Directory, policies, learning & development etc. -Ensuring that the employees have the right environment to work. -Managing the recruitment for the staff roles. -Faculty Member of School of Management - Mentoring Students in recruitment | Developing curriculum for HR -Tools used - Zoho people, Recruiter flow

Identifying high potential candidates for the 2022 cohort of the Teach for India Fellowship program. Did 200+ identification calls Sourcing the colleges and universities with NIRF ranking or NAAC A++ Grade and above, organizing recruitment drives there, Organized recruitment drives in 1-Central University of Kerala 2-Marian College ( autonomous), Kuttikkanam. Kerala. 3-Ilahiya College of Engineering and Technology, Kerala 4-MGM college of engineering Kerala 5-TIST -Tocht institute of sci & tech,Kerala 6-College of Engineering, Munnar.Kerala 7-University College of Engineering, Kerala 8-Saint Joseph’s College of Engineering & Technology (SJCET), Kerala Co-organized a webinar ( by being a panelist ) on ;'Building India's Bhaavi (future)- Education and sustainability' for the university stakeholders ( placement officers/HoD/Senior authority) who would like to explore opportunities with TFI at strategic & recruitment scale Co-organised Matriculation event for the selected candidates from Kerala for the 2022 cohort of fellowship Building an effective support system for fellow applicants and guiding them for the completion of the application. Data interpretation in salesforce and effective people management.

Teach grade 8 social & English(33 students) in a government school in Chennai. Finance Head - Chennai flood relief initiative.2021 Nov. Raised & disbursed INR 1,50,000 to support the student's families. Fellow Mentor - Managed/trained 5 volunteers for three months. Student selector - For a City wide student leadership project Collaborated with Model United Nations Started a school team project 'TecNichols Prayogshala' aimed at making students learn through experiments collaborated with 'Prayogshala'. Worked as part of the assessment team and conducted a standardized assessment across TFI classes ( secondary classes) in Chennai. Started an independent project 'Kummatty' ( a mobile library) Collaborated with Heal foundation to provide socio-emotional learnings for the students. Collaborated with 'Bookworm society' to support students by creating access to various books. Ten students participated in Robotic Workshop organized by the 'School For Change'. Started an independent project to create a structure for the migrant students to protect themselves from alienation and otherisation. Presented a research paper in a virtual conference at the University of Madras on ' pandemic, a booster in developing an entrepreneurial mindset in students. Created student leaders from my class to teach the primary students who didn't have access to education during the pandemic. Gave one month of training for the students to teach in primary classes collaborated with involve peer learning program

Full-time teacher Taught Grade 6 , 9 & 10. Subjects - Economics, Political science & History Organized an infotainment trip to Ooty Paper Presented - On Kerala History Conference Title - ' Sufi Mystic Music traditions in India with special reference to Kerala'

Archaeological excavation in coastal Kerala , focused on kodungallur on behalf of Muziris Project Muziris Project - https://www.muzirisheritage.org/

Concentration: Modern Indian History, Historiography & History of Diaspora communities Research Paper - Presented in 39th Annual Session of South Indian History Congress Research Title ' Malaibariyath , The cultural uniqueness of Mappila Muslims' Co organized a field trip to Thandikkudi, a megalithic site in Tamil Nadu Co organized a National seminar on 'Inland and maritime trade in peninsular India' with the department of History Founding Member : Kalam Vanimel Study Circle volunteer head - Kerala flood relief 2018(student lead ) Organised an infotainment trip to Kolli hills