Lead Career Coach

Job Description:
- To support NTU Education 2025 and beyond, this role is critical as part of the Career & Attachment Office (CAO)’s strategy to develop NTU students into future-ready graduates.- As a Senior Assistant Director, this role is responsible for leading a team of coaches to deliver impactful career development programmes and employment outcomes for postgraduate students and NTU scholars.- This strategic role, as a Lead Career Coach for NTU postgraduate (PG) students and NTU scholars, guides, coaches and empowers them in their personal self-discovery, career exploration and professional development, thereby enhancing their employability and employment aligned to their career interests and goals.- The role includes being a Career Business Partner for stakeholders involved.

Responsibilities:
Overall responsible for the career-readiness of NTU PG students and NTU scholars.

1. Strategic Role:
- Develop coaching strategies to ensure students’ career-readiness.- Work closely with stakeholders to curate and execute career development programmes.- Collaborator and Point of Contact (POC) to all stakeholders.- Provide regular updates and reports to senior leadership on the impact of career development programmes.- Leverage data insights to refine strategies and optimize the delivery of career services.

2. Leadership Role:
- Lead and mentor career coach/es to deliver high-quality coaching.- Set performance goals, conduct regular reviews, and provide professional development opportunities for the team.- Foster a collaborative and innovative culture within the team, encouraging data-driven approaches and best practices in career coaching.

3. Coaching Role:
- Provide 1:1 coaching and conduct small group coaching.- Guide students in exploring their career preferences, strengths, values and interests.- Coach students in their career exploration and planning.- Provide students with information and resources on career-related topics (job search strategies, resume writing, interview skills, industry skills frameworks, career workshops etc).- Coach students in strategies for internship and job search.- Engage students, student groups, and faculty members in career awareness and preparation matters.- Customize and deliver schools’ career engagement activities to increase students' employability (e.g., Industry-Specific skills workshops, networking events, and alumni-sharing sessions.- Collaborate with the Industry Relations team to identify and develop partnerships with employers- Involve in schools’ career-centric activities (e.g. PG Career Day).

Job Requirements:
- A recognised degree with 10 to 12 years of experience, including at least 7 years’ experience in career coaching/counselling/career services/graduate recruitment/human resources/executive search/learning and development.- A relevant Masters degree is a bonus.- Change agent and constantly initiating new ideas within the College-level team of Career Coaches to increase awareness and CAO’s services to the students.- Relevant career coaching certification(s).- Possess qualifications/certification in self-assessment and career profiling tools.- High performing coach with experience in engaging:

- Students and early career talents
- High performing students
- Highly diverse student groups - by nationality, age group, work experience- Knowledgeable in traditional and technology/AI-enabled career coaching tools.- Knowledgeable of industries and workplace and employer expectations.- Strong initiative, self-motivated, and focused on helping students to achieve career success.- Proven ability to lead and manage a high-performing team in a dynamic environment.- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.- Strong expertise in providing career advisory services to postgraduate students, with an understanding of coursework and research needs.- Active listener with strong critical thinking and decision-making skills.- Meticulous with strong organisation and administration skills.- Excellent team player with excellent interpersonal, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.- Proficient in MS Office tools and in using data to measure outcomes, inform strategies, and improve services.

Hiring Institution: NTU