Executive, Centre for Computational Social Science and Humanities

5 days ago

Queenstown, Singapore National University of Singapore Full time $40,000 - $60,000 per year

Company description:

The National University of Singapore is the national research university of Singapore. Founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, NUS is the oldest higher education institution in Singapore

Job description:

Job Purpose

Centre for Computational Social Science and Humanities (CSSH) is seeking a Executive to join in the operations of the new centre. This role directly supports core strategic functions, including managing CSSH grants and budget; communications and meetings for the management team including with external stakeholders; hiring of research staff and interns; procurement of equipment and services; events, workshops, seminars; CSSH membership and seed grants; as well as website and social media. The centre's success hinges on efficient execution of these responsibilities.

Job Description
  • Managing CSSH budget, accounts statements, process claims, and expense reports i.e., managing funding processes and ensuring compliance with grant requirements;
  • Handling communications on behalf of the management team with CSSH members, international advisory board, steering committee, visitors and others. This includes drafting correspondence and managing inquiries;
  • Arranging CSSH meetings, including scheduling, venue booking, online, hybrid registration;
  • Arranging publicity and logistics for workshops, seminars, masterclasses and other CSSH events;
  • Coordinating recruitment and onboarding of research staff and processing part-time or intern work applications and claims, maintaining personnel records;
  • Coordinating the visits of visiting professors and visitors including travel arrangements and processing reimbursements;
  • Managing the procurement of goods and services, ensuring that goods are delivered and processing payments, monitoring fixed assets;
  • Managing the CSSH seed grant call, announcement, review process, decision, accounts set up, reports, variations;
  • Managing CSSH grants obtained, including flagship project;
  • Updating the centre's social media accounts and website;
Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree with minimum 3 years of working experience or Polytechnic Diploma with at least 5 years of work experience in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
  • Good interpersonal communication and writing skills, initiative and resourcefulness, attention to detail,
  • Ability to self-learn, understand workflows, and multi-task in a fast-paced environment
  • Able to handle confidential information with discretion
  • Competent in IT applications such as Zoom, Doodle, MS teams, MS forms, Dropbox, etc.
  • Employment type: 1 year contract

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

More Information

Location: Kent Ridge Campus

Organization: School of Computing

Department : Department of Information Systems And Analytics

Employee Referral Eligible:

Job requisition ID : 28762

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