Assistant Director, Office of the President

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The 'family-like' atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.

Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.

RESPONSIBILITIES

This role provides executive support to the President, including, but not limited to:

• Performing e-approvals on behalf of President for leave requests, travel requests and staff reimbursement claims from President's direct reports.
• Assisting the President in reviewing POs and bank transfers as requested by Office of Finance.
• Assisting with requests for President's e-signature on contracts, agreements, letters, and other documents.
• Processing President's expenses, credit card statement, medical and FlexBen claims.
• Arranging President's travel needs:
• Pre-trip requests
• Ticketing
• Post-trip claims
• Sending all correspondences and messages to the SMU internal community originating from President's Office.
• Providing the President with secretarial support during meetings (internal and external) as well as assisting with agenda preparation and follow-up of outstanding items with key stakeholders post-meeting.
• Assisting the President with desktop research, analysis, interpretation and reporting of corporate and strategic information, when required.
• Supporting the President in the preparation of presentation materials.
• Acting as backup cover, on a needs basis, for the Executive Assistant to President and the Office Manager.
• Other administrative duties as may be assigned from time to time.

• A university degree or equivalent with at least 15 years of relevant work experience in a similar capacity, would be required.
• Experience in working with university-level management officers preferred.
• Ability to write grammatically correct business correspondence and reports independently, with keen attention to details.
• Excellent organizational, verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office suite of applications.
• Ability to multi-task and cope with multiple deadlines or competing priorities; adapt and prioritize changes as necessary.
• Ability to communicate with colleagues across the University and key external contacts in a professional manner.
• Ability to exercise discretion and maintain confidentiality at all times.
• Efficient, meticulous, self-motivated and independent.

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Candidates who do not possess the stipulated qualifications but have relevant work experience may still apply. Remuneration and appointment terms shall commensurate with qualifications and experience. SMU reserves the right to modify the appointment terms where necessary.