Manager, Academic Talent Development & Support

About the role

SingHealth Duke-NUS Joint Office of Academic Medicine (JOAM) is looking for a Manager to lead its Academic Talent Development & Support team. The role drives programmes that strengthen the faculty and clinician-researcher pipeline across Academic Clinical Programmes, Joint Institutes and Disease Centres, working with senior management, clinician leaders and faculty so that academic talent is recognised, supported and developed.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team and manage budgets, resources and workplans, setting up frameworks and processes for new initiatives in line with Duke-NUS and SingHealth policies.
• Oversee the Academic Medicine Named Donor Distinguished and Faculty Professorships programme, including nominations, renewals, academic support timelines, fund management, engagement plans and dashboards.
• Coordinate and support Tenure Track and Tenured Faculty, liaising with ACPs and stakeholders and processing academic support reimbursements.
• Manage Peer Support Groups (PSGs), working with PSG Leads to plan workplans and organise events.
• Oversee the Clinician Investigator Advancement Awards (CIVA) and Clinical Trialist Development Awards (CTDA), from nomination and approval through to recognition, engagement and the bi-annual Awards Day.
• Act as staff officer for the Strategic Hire and Research Talent Hire process, maintaining guidelines and documentation.
• Develop communications collaterals, toolkits and website content, coordinate vendor design briefs and manage website uploads.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Management, Public Administration, Healthcare Management, Education Management or a related discipline.
• At least 6 years of relevant experience, with 3 to 5 years in a lead or supervisory capacity covering strategic and operational planning of engagement programmes.
• Demonstrated experience planning and implementing talent development or academic programmes and engaging diverse stakeholders.
• Experience preparing materials and documentation for management forums and governance approvals.

Required skills

• Strong written and verbal communication, with experience overseeing collateral development and digital content coordination.
• Collaborative, proactive and structured approach to problem-solving.
• Highly organised, detail-oriented, accountable and compliant.