The Manager, Office of the Provost supports the Provost and Academic Group leadership in planning, coordinating, and implementing university-wide academic and strategic initiatives. The role ensures policy coherence, effective governance, and smooth execution of Continuing Education & Training (CET) and Pre-Employment Training (PET) priorities, within the strategic and regulatory framework of SIT, to advance academic excellence and institutional effectiveness. Responsbilities as follows.
Academic Strategy & Initiatives
- Lead and support development and implementation of key academic strategies across CET and PET. E.g. sustainability, competency-based education, academic transformation).
- Conduct scanning of national policy directions (e.g. CET, lifelong learning, skills-based education), as well as international higher education and applied learning trends, and thereby translating insights into policy briefs or strategic recommendations.
Policy & Governance
- Review, develop, and improve academic and administrative policies, processes, and systems
Programme Operations Support.
- Support curriculum and programme reviews, quality assurance, market scanning, and coordination with clusters and stakeholders
Committee & Secretariat Support
- Provide secretariat support to key committees, including documentation and follow-up
- Others e.g Communication & Reporting, manage information-sharing platforms, prepare institutional academic reports etc
Job Requirements
- Recognised university degree.
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in project management, policy and process review, and management reporting.
- Familiarity with Singapore’s higher education landscape is an advantage.
- Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem solving skills
- Excellent writing, documentation and presentation skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently under tight timelines
- Effective interpersonal skills to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels
- Comfortable with managing dynamic and evolving priorities