NTU’s Student Affairs Office seeks to achieve its mission of collaborating and co-creating a meaningful and enriching student life experience with its partners by:
- promoting students’ personal growth through co-curricular learning arising from student-led activities, leadership development initiatives, residential hall programmes, inclusion and integration efforts, community engagement initiatives and sports
- facilitating meaningful engagement among key stakeholders within and outside of the NTU community.
Responsibilities
1) NTU’s Bridging Programme
- Coordinate with various NTU Offices to support NTU Bridging Programme Students’ administrative transition into Singapore and NTU.
- Collaborate with various NTU Offices to plan and implement the pastoral care programme for NTU’s Bridging Programme Students.
2) Student Support and Case Management
- Work with NTU Offices and Schools to identify and provide relevant support services to SM2, ASEAN and Science & Engineering scholars, both academic and non-academic.
- Plan and implement activities for these students, to help them better integrate academically and socially.
3) University-Wide Integration Efforts
- Collaborate with and provide advice to students, staff, and faculty to educate and raise awareness of integrative practices.
- Plan and implement programmes and initiatives that inculcate the importance of diversity and integration.
- Support the development and implementation of policies and practices which enhance integration within NTU.
4) Data analysis and preparation of reports for submission to regulators and NTU senior management.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in any related field from a recognised University.
- Good working knowledge on the transition and integration of international students in higher education.
- At least 3 - 5 years of relevant experience which involves considerable interaction with youth.
- Experience with international students in the tertiary education sector will be advantageous.
- Sensitive to and empathetic towards the transition and integration challenges faced by international students.
- Critical and lateral thinking skills.
- Ability to adapt effectively in a complex and constantly changing environment.
- Communication, negotiation and influencing skills (written and verbal).
- Ability to work collaboratively with university students and colleagues from different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds.
- Strong drive to initiate, plan, implement and deliver integration initiatives on time and on target.
- Proficient in all Microsoft Office application software.
