Assistant Manager, Programme Innovation

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As Singapore’s first polytechnic, Singapore Polytechnic (SP) prides ourselves in providing the best learning experience for our students in pre-employment and continuing adult education. The mission of SP is to prepare our learners to be life ready, work ready and world ready. Our vision is to be a caring community of inspired learners committed to serving with mastery.

Singapore Polytechnic's Professional and Adult Continuing Education (PACE) Academy is a leading continuing education and training (CET) academy that advocates the pursuit of lifelong learning and skills mastery. We offer a wide range of training programmes for adult learners to enhance their employability, and partner the industry closely in workforce development. PACE also help companies build and develop their workplace learning capabilities, solutions and systems through training and consultancy projects.

Reporting to the Senior Manager (Programme Innovation & Solutions), the appointee design and implement curriculum innovation for Continuing Education & Training (CET) to support workforce upskilling and transformation. The appointee works in a team of learning solutionist in PACE Academy, and curate innovative and fit-to-purpose training and workplace learning solutions to meet the evolving learning needs from companies, industry sectors and adult learners.

[What you will be working on]

**_Responsibilities: _**
- Analyse market demand, job-skills insights and learning needs from companies, industry sectors and adult learners
- Interpret key trends in CET, understand current internal and external state/landscape, and push SP forward by developing new programmes and solutions to maintain SP’s competitive edge.
- Curate innovative and fit-to-purpose training solutions to meet evolving learning needs from companies, industry sectors and adult learners
- Implement new pedagogical and technology approach in curriculum design, delivery and assessment for CET and Workplace Learning
- Experiment emerging educational technologies for curation of CET contents at speed and just-in-time, e.g. AI-driven contents curation
- Oversee the whole life cycle of consultancy projects on training and workplace learning solutions, from curation of project proposal, submission to funding agencies for funding approval, project kick-off and commencement, project closure and post-project survey.
- Review project deliverables and outcomes and recommend measures for continuous improvement
- Collaborate with NACE Centres across Institute of Higher Learning (IHLs), SkillsFuture Singapore and industry on NACE initiatives at national level
- Establish and maintain fruitful relationships with internal and external stakeholders for programmes innovation and solutions.

[What we are looking for]

**_Requirements: _**
- Competent in learning & development, e.g. learning solution design, workplace learning solution design, curriculum design, technology-enabled learning delivery, talent management, performance management, etc.
- Strong leadership skills, resourceful, proactive, enterprising, persuasive
- Good project management skills and time management
- Strong business writing and communication skills
- Able to handle pressure and meet deadlines
- Preferably more than 5 years of experience in educational institutions of higher learning or/and Continuing Education and Training (CET) sector

**Closing date: 27 Sep 2024**

If you are shortlisted for the position(s), you should hear from us within 30 days of the closing date of the advertisement.