Assistant Dean

What the role is:

- As the community leadership development arm of the People’s Association, NACLI offers a wide range of leadership development programmes to equip grassroots leaders and PA professional staff with practical and applied skills and competencies to carry out their work in the community effectively. In the current climate, there is a need to leverage on technology, systems, data and insights for effective forward planning as well as insights to learning pedagogies to increase the level of training effectiveness and quality of training delivery to staff and volunteers on the ground.

**What you will be working on:
**Key responsibilities include:

- Synergises with NACLI departments and assigned working committees to identify, kick-start and eventually scale-up integrated learning solutions by leveraging innovative systems, technology, and learning science thorugh conceptualising, prototyping, implementation, and evaluation of projects and trials.
- Enhances and improves current operational systems to align with the organisation’s strategic goals and meet operational requirements.
- Integrates in-house system with other systems within PA to leverage on other datasets to better support evidence-based analysis and decision-making.
- Analyses and provide insights to NACLI’s training operations using technology and behavioural learning science to understand and shift leaner mindsets/behaviour in the following areas: Building micro-communities

Using information to engage residents

Re-conceptualising community programming

Using digitalization to enhance learning and interest group activities

Re-conceptualizing how our CC spaces are utilized
- Conducts research on learning theories, data analytics and immersive technology guided by learning science principles to enhance NACLI’s training curriculum, pedagogies for future of learning experience.
- Ensures learning science concepts and recommendations are effectively communicated to various stakeholders and communications plans are adapted for different group of audiences.
- Develops and implement a comprehensive programme evaluation plan, including the selection and use of appropriate outcome measures.
- Oversees development and maintainenance of system for collecting and analysing data on programme outcomes and effectiveness.
- Collaborates closely with Front Offices (Training Faculties) to ensure that outcome data are sufficiently collected, analysed, and implemented to improve programme and course effectiveness.
- Identifies and leverages strategic alliances to support and advance NACLI’s plans for future of learning and community leadership development.
- Supports Vice-Dean (Learning Science & Systems) in organising the department workplan and deliverables.
- Builds and manages stakeholder networks (e.g. academics, consultants, specialists).
- Oversees preparation and management of programming plans, budgets, and reports.
- Prepares submissions and presents at management meeting.

**Other Duties**
- Cover duties of other officers in the department as needed.
- Performs other duties assigned by senior officers.

**What we are looking for:
**Requirements**:

- At least 5 years’ relevant experience in Psychology and Pedogogy within a training entity/learning institution
- At least 3 years’ experience in supervisory and management position

We are looking for a highly-motivated individual who:

- Is a self-starter with strong interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Enjoys working with and managing people of different backgrounds, and inspiring them to achieve a common goal.
- Has excellent proficiency in the English language, both verbal and written and proficient in a second language (Chinese, Malay, or Tamil)
- Prior experience in a learning-technology or knowledge-management related project or environment.