Assistant Director, Partnership and Global

The incumbent will report to the Deputy Director of OGEM. The role will not just contribute to bringing the world to NTU and taking NTU to the world through coursework and research but also raise the positive impact to NTU’s global reputation visibility and brand. The staff is responsible to:

- Plan and execute a high-impact and customised market penetration strategy to expand partnerships in coursework and research to grow inbound and outbound short-term mobility. Wherever possible, to develop a market entry strategy to build more overseas student immersion placement in project development, research and/or study.
- Cultivate partnerships with assigned markets and seek to grow outbound placement opportunities including managing the set-up of the partnership agreements for signing.
- Explore with overseas partners and connect NTU Colleges/Schools faculty to collaborate and co-teach NTU COIL virtual education with an ACI field trip component during the semester or special term. This shall help facilitate the implementation of Faculty-led onsite short term ACI outbound overseas field trips to build 21st century skills.
- Facilitate negotiation for tuition waiver semester spots and expand existing student exchange partnership agreements and growing mobility to an assigned region in the Americas/Europe and/or Asia/Oceania (>100 partner institutions).
- Proactively work with local Autonomous Universities to collaborate in branding and positioning Singapore Universities at Global International Educators’ conferences with the aim of highlighting the university's achievements, growth, and global impact in research, education, and innovation. This also includes the production of effective outreach messaging, marketing content and print materials/digital media campaigns to promote the University’s various global/overseas student mobility programmes amongst diverse stakeholders including partner universities, faculty and students.
- Support New Overseas Programme Development; execution of student operations; organise relevant partner visit to campus and manage Global Mobility Data governance, Collation, reporting and analytics.

The incumbent will engage with relevant internal and external stakeholders, including with senior leadership and work closely with SASD/OGEM/College/School team colleagues.

**Responsibilities**
- Work with reporting officer to set strategic direction and goals and key deliverables which will contribute and impact the university and office’s overall direction and goals.
- Cultivate partnerships with assigned markets and seek to grow outbound opportunities.
- Manage the discussion/negotiation and set-up of the partnership agreements for signing.
- Curate, coordinate and implement faculty-led programmes to deliver and achieve operational activities and goals.
- Determine and review how work processes should be conducted and recommend ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of operations.
- Monitor compliance of operational processes and act on non-compliance.
- Work together with Semester and Short-Term Programme teams/colleagues to engage partner universities on student recruitment and inbound and outbound mobility operation issues.
- Engage Schools’ co-ordinators and colleagues from other offices on mobility build-up and execution of faculty-led programmes (onsite or virtual).
- Review points of data collation and ensure accuracy of data for submission and reporting.
- Review and improve the students’ global education experience and learning.
- Analyse information or situation for problem solving or trouble shooting.
- Attend to emergency incidents and situations that might occur.
- Prepare reports and data for senior management reporting and decision making.

**Requirements**:

- Graduates who are independent with minimum 10 years of relevant work experience in communications, PR, event management and operations, preferably in an university environment.
- Experience in developing relations with local and overseas academia, industry, media, and other strategic organisations that supports Student Overseas Immersion. Working within a multi-cultural environment and team to provide all round administrative support to sending students overseas.
- Expose to business culture and geopolitics of Europe, India & ASEAN shall be considered an advantage.
- Strong admin skills and attention to details
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Strong IT skill and Data Analytic skills
- Team player and highly collaborative

Hiring Institution: NTU

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