Senior/Assistant Director, Postgraduate & Continuing Education Programmes

About the role

The Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, is recruiting a Senior/Assistant Director for its Postgraduate and Continuing Education Programmes. The role manages and administers continuing education and training (CET) and coursework graduate programmes, reports to the Director (Education Management) and works closely with the Assistant Dean, Graduate Programmes. It is a two-year contract appointment.

Key responsibilities

• Oversight of the Graduate Programmes team, including design, launch and delivery of continuing education and training and graduate coursework programmes
• Identify adult learning and training gaps and opportunities
• Collaborate with faculty to prepare course and degree proposals for approval by the School, University, Ministry (where applicable) and the Singapore Medical Council (where applicable), and monitor approval timelines
• Review and recommend process alignment, automation or enhancement
• Negotiate MOUs and legal agreements with partner institutions
• Ensure administrative compliance with University and government skills training and adult training guidelines
• Prepare a dashboard of programme financial performance and collate performance data for stakeholders
• Help plan budgets for new courses and monitor operating budgets for the PGC and CET programmes
• Oversight of operating and accumulated surpluses, and negotiate cost and revenue sharing with partners
• Ad hoc duties as assigned by the reporting officer

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree; Master's degree preferred
• Background in higher education and/or healthcare administration
• Experience in curriculum design and development
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Collaborative, meticulous, resourceful and adaptable