The incumbent is required to provide timely assistance and support in teaching lab activities in SPMS Physics and Applied Physics (PAP), and other ad-hoc administrative and outreach duties as and when required by Division.
1. Overseeing teaching lab activities in Undergraduate Teaching Lab, which include:
- Schedule student experiments and viva, conduct student briefing.
- Schedule Teaching Assistants’ (TAs’) lab session duties, conduct TA briefing.
- Set up and maintain course website.
- Ensure experimental setup and lab consumables required for students’ experiments is adequate and in working condition. Take necessary actions and set up measures to minimize setup repairs.
- Provide instructions and guidance to students during lab sessions, troubleshooting of experimental setup if required.
- Plagiarism screening and investigation for student lab reports.
- Assist Faculty Coordinator in collecting student reports and consolidating scores.
- Ensure students follow the safety rules in the lab.
- Handle procurement of lab supplies and setups.
- Handle disposal of lab consumables and equipment.
- Maintain proper documentation of teaching lab inventory and assets.
- Review of experiments, facilitate new experiment launch to revamp teaching labs.
- Conduct lab visits and Physics demo experiments for outreach.
2. Overseeing and administering PAP Division’s part-time Work Study Scheme (WSS) student claims and its funding:
- Create student job numbers, process claims in WSS system.
- Proper filing of student claims for audit check.
- Answer all WSS-related queries within Division.
- Plan and track Division’s WSS expenditure, submit yearly budget plan and mid-year budget review to school.
Requirements:
- A recognized Bachelor’s degree in Physics, Engineering or related field.
- Minimum 3 years of relevant laboratory experience.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
- Strong ability to communicate (verbal and written) effectively with students, faculty and team members.
- Ability to multi-task
- Responsible and reliable
- Proactive and positive attitude towards work tasks.
- Possesses characteristics of being assertive and meticulous
