Senior Manager

**[What the role is]**

We are seeking a proactive and dynamic Manager to oversee curriculum development and training initiatives, including designing, developing, and delivering impactful trainings. Given the fast-evolving work environment, this role will manage multiple projects, ensuring timely execution and driving efficiency in a high-paced setting. Strong project management skills are essential to track timelines, milestones and deliverables, ensuring all initiatives are completed on schedule while upholding high-quality standards

**[What you will be working on]**

Community Engagement
- Drive career practitioners’ growth and engagement through digital and physical engagement initiatives.
- Plan, coordinate and execute engagement sessions, networking events, and online discussion forums for career practitioners.
- Develop and implement strategies to maintain active participation and facilitate professional discussions.
- Create, curate and maintain valuable content and a repository of resources for community digital platforms and capability development.
- Pilot, implement and review the effectiveness of continuing professional development programmes for career practitioners.
- Research and develop engaging content for bulletins and newsletters tailored to career practitioners.

Project Management
- Manage multiple projects from initiation through completion, including project planning, coordinating project activities, and managing resource and stakeholders to effectively ensure successful delivery within scope, time, and budget constraints.
- Develop proposals and create presentation materials.
- Proactively identify potential project challenges and independently implement solutions to ensure smooth project progress.
- Track project timelines, milestones and deliverables.

Curriculum Development and Training
- Create engaging learning materials, like presentations, e-learning modules and case studies.
- Conduct comprehensive online, hybrid, and in-person training programs to enhance career practitioners' skills, knowledge and competencies.
- Create engaging learning environments and utilise new teaching tools or technologies to enhance learners’ knowledge, practical skills, and professional capabilities.
- Design metrics and assessment tools to evaluate training program effectiveness and recommend improvements or updates of training materials and teaching aids, ensuring continuous development of engaging content.
- Evaluate the career development landscape and keep abreast of industry practices and standards.
- Research and review CDF framework and curricula, adopting a strategic approach to ensure alignment with national standards and best practices.
- Integrate emerging career development trends, technology, and teaching methodologies into curricula and course design to enhance learner outcomes.
- Ensure the curricula align with organisational goals and CDF frameworks, integrate learning objectives and achieve learners’ outcomes.
- Propose new course content, instructional materials, and learning activities that are relevant, engaging and innovative.
- Ensure curricula meet accreditation requirements, regulatory standards and institutional policies.

**[What we are looking for]**

**Requirements**:

- At least 6 years of relevant and demonstrated experience in programme development and implementation, with a proven track record in managing end-to-end projects, including planning, execution, and evaluation.
- Community engagement: Able to engage community, digitally and physically, and align initiatives with industry needs.
- Project management: Able to manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining quality standards.
- Training & facilitation: ACTA/ACLP certified with at least 3 years of experience facilitating adult learning and conducting assessments. Possess a strong understanding of adult learning principles with a demonstrated ability to adapt training content for different delivery modes (online, hybrid, and in-person).
- Industry & research expertise: Possess a strong understanding of workforce dynamics and programmes. Able to conduct research and transform complex research findings into practical, innovative learning solutions that drive measurable outcomes.
- Stakeholder management: Able to engage professionally across all organisational levels and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Communication: Able to write and communicate clear reports and content, and frame and present appropriate narratives to suit different target audiences to achieve communications objectives.
- Critical thinking and problem-solving: Able to analyse and synthesise latest industry practices and standards, to draw insights and recommend refinements to training and learning content and problem-solve by identifying and evaluating practical solutions.
- Adaptability & resourcefulness: Able to adapt to dynamic, non-routine, and unpredictable work environments while maintaining efficiency a