Total 10 PR / Media / Communications job vacancies in LTA SMO(MAIN)5

Reporting to the Head, Administration, the incumbent will play a pivotal role in providing comprehensive administrative and logistical support for the Communication and Events (C&E) team. The primary aim of the role will be to facilitate smooth operations, ensuring the seamless and timely execution of events and communication strategies to deliver exceptional experiences to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Work with the C&E team on related matters but not limited to:

Communication and Events

• Provide fresh insights and ideas to enhance the strategic workforce planning for events

• Liaise with both internal and external stakeholders on communication and events related matters

• Provide logistical support during preparations for events

• Process student assistant claims and assist in procurement related matters, assist in budget projection and managing budget utilisation for C&E

• Manage event inventory – procurement and distribution of event gifts, corporate gifts

• Support the maintenance of WKWSCI social media platforms, working closely with C&E managers and colleagues.

• Work with Communication Manager to design and create content for digital platforms 

• Maintain an editorial calendar for all digital platforms.

• Apply data analytical tools to track sentiment, media mentions. 

Administrative support

• Provide administrative support to the C&E team managers on the full spectrum of tasks and functions related to the team

• Provide administrative support to Assistant Chair (Student Life & Alumni) on matters relating to students and alumni.

• Follow up with students/alumni queries on events or activities.

School Visits

• Take charge of the planning and execution of outreach and admissions related school visits

• Liaise with Office of Admissions for potential school visits from JCs, Polys or IB schools, and the school coordinators in charge of the visits

• Coordinate with Tech team to set up demos as part of the school tour

• Identify and engage suitable students or faculty for the visits

Student and Alumni Engagement

• Provide support in terms of vetting submitted proposals for all student-initiated and/or alumni events, event execution, procurement, handling post-event claims and expenses, and tracking event budgets.

• Maintain and monitor AC-Students and Alumni role-based email account

• Assist with communication materials to students and/or alumni

• Follow up closely with students and/or alumni queries on events and/or activities.

• Work in partnership with the C&E team on student-led activities

Requirements

• Recognized Bachelor’s degree in any discipline. Higher learning institutional work experience will be advantageous.

• Strong administrative skills, particularly in planning and organising.

• Customer service oriented - possessing a positive attitude to approach each situation with a solution.

• Open minded team player who readily communicates and objectively keeps the team goals in view.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills to handle diverse levels of stakeholders.

• Ability to multi-task and adapt to changing priorities.

• Proficient in MS Office applications

• Experience in digital content production

• Proficiency in various social media tools and platforms, with some experience in supporting online marketing/community engagement campaigns.

Hiring Institution: NTU

[What the role is]

Deputy / Assistant Manager, Digital & Social Media

[What you will be working on]

We are looking for a creative professional to join us to promote and communicate Singapore’s land transport policies and projects through LTA’s digital and social media platforms.

You will conceptualise, develop, and execute digital communications plans to build and deepen public understanding of LTA’s policies and projects. This involves the planning, management and implementation of various digital publicity tactics and online ad buys. You will also need to work with various stakeholders, vendors as well as different content publishers/key opinion leaders to ensure LTA’s various messages are conveyed effectively to different target audience segments.

As a digital campaign officer(s), you will play a proactive role to optimise the campaign under your purview while ensuring the overall comms objectives, key performance indicators, budgets, and timelines are on track. You will also analyse the campaign findings to glean insights on key takeaways and/or recommend improvements for future campaign runs as well as prepare management reports.

Additionally, you will be part of our vibrant team to ideate and develop creative and exciting digital tactics to educate and engage netizens on LTA’s socials, including the creation of various multimedia collateral (e.g. static visuals, GIFs, TikTok videos/IG Reels) in-house and/or with a creative agency.

As part of our issues/crisis comms work, you will need to keep active tabs on online sentiments and conduct digital media monitoring & analysis work on various LTA’s issues & news. You will be rostered to prepare regular sentiment analysis reports to apprise management and work with stakeholders to prepare timely responses to safeguard and/or enhance LTA’s reputation effectively in the long run.

[What we are looking for]

• Tertiary qualification in Mass Communications, Digital/Social Media/Marketing, or related field
• At least 3 years of experience in a related field preferred. Those with more relevant work experience will be considered for a more senior role.
• Avid user of social media platforms and has a keen interest in content creation and trends
• Creative thinker with good storytelling and analytical skills
• Familiarity with digital and social media ad buy planning and execution works
• Self-motivated and able to work independently
• Team player with ability to manage multiple projects in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Good writing and communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills

Part-time Lecturer in Creative Writing

We are seeking an experienced writer (of either poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, or script for performance) capable of teaching HL6205 Forms of Narrative as one of our offerings in the Master of Arts in Creative Writing and Publishing within the School of Humanities. Candidates should have a proven track-record in creative writing and teaching. The instructor will be responsible for leading workshops and seminars for three class hours per week in addition to syllabus planning, class preparation, marking for assessment and student consultation.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or higher
• At least 3 years tertiary teaching experience

For further information about the current Creative Writing and Publishing Electives, please refer to the following website:

https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/admissions/pgc/mcpub/courses

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Hiring Institution: NTU

Part-time Lecturer in Publishing

We are seeking an experienced editor capable of teaching HL6214 Editorial Theory, Practice, Functions, and Strategies as one of our offerings in the Master of Arts in Creative Writing and Publishing within the School of Humanities. Candidates should have a proven track-record of editing in the publishing industry. The instructor will be responsible for leading workshops and seminars for three class hours per week, in addition to syllabus planning, class preparation, marking for assessment and student consultation.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or higher
• Tertiary teaching experience
• 5 years experience in the publishing industry

For further information about the current Creative Writing and Publishing Electives, please refer to the following website:

https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/admissions/pgc/mcpub/courses

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Hiring Institution: NTU

Part-time Lecturer in Publishing

We are seeking an experienced publisher capable of teaching HL6211 Writing and Editing for Digital Media as one of our offerings in the Master of Arts in Creative Writing and Publishing within the School of Humanities. Candidates should have a proven track-record in the publishing industry. The instructor will be responsible for leading workshops and seminars for three class hours per week, in addition to syllabus planning, class preparation, marking for assessment and student consultation.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or higher
• Tertiary teaching experience
• 5 years experience in the publishing industry

For further information about the current Creative Writing and Publishing Electives, please refer to the following website:

https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/admissions/pgc/mcpub/courses

Please click “APPLY” button to submit your application.

Hiring Institution: NTU

Part-time Lecturer in Creative Writing

We are seeking an experienced writer (of either poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, or script for performance) capable of teaching HL6207 Place and Time as one of our offerings in the Master of Arts in Creative Writing and Publishing within the School of Humanities. Candidates should have a proven track-record in creative writing and teaching. The instructor will be responsible for leading workshops and seminars for three class hours per week in addition to syllabus planning, class preparation, marking for assessment and student consultation.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or higher
• At least 3 years tertiary teaching experience

For further information about the current Creative Writing and Publishing Electives, please refer to the following website:

https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/admissions/pgc/mcpub/courses

Please click “APPLY” button to submit your application.

Hiring Institution: NTU

Part-time Lecturer in Publishing

We are seeking an experienced publisher capable of teaching HL6212 Technology and Electronic Publishing as one of our offerings in the Master of Arts in Creative Writing and Publishing within the School of Humanities. Candidates should have a proven track-record in the publishing industry. The instructor will be responsible for leading workshops and seminars for three class hours per week, in addition to syllabus planning, class preparation, marking for assessment and student consultation.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or higher
• Tertiary teaching experience
• 5 years experience in the publishing industry

For further information about the current Creative Writing and Publishing Electives, please refer to the following website:

https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/admissions/pgc/mcpub/courses

Please click “APPLY” button to submit your application.

Hiring Institution: NTU

Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI) is looking for a candidate to join them as Research Associate who can help with data collection and analyses, and the writing of the manuscript of a research project on AI and digital advertising.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in research activities including conceptualization and planning of research projects

• Lead/assist in data gathering (including focus group discussions and surveys) and analysis for relevant projects using qualitative and quantitative methods.

• Actively contribute to data analyses and the writing of academic research manuscript

• Lead the writing of reports

• Undertake any additional administrative duties as required by the supervisor

Job Requirements:

• Master’s degree in Communication Studies, Psychology or related field in the social sciences

• Applicants with 1 or more years of work experience in social sciences research will be preferred. However, fresh post-graduates are welcome to apply.

• Demonstrable intellectual excellence and capacity to work with others independently

• Good project management skills, with multi-tasking ability

• Academic writing skills

• Experience with social scientific research (e.g., focus group discussions, interviews, online surveys, data analysis using SPSS)

We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Hiring Institution: NTU

The Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information is looking for a Research Assistant/Research Associate/Research Fellow who is interested in examining the use of digital health technologies (health apps, wearables, exergames, VR/AR) to improve older adults’ physical health and mental well-being.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with highly acclaimed scholars from NTU, Singapore ETH Centre, and ETH Zurich and contribute to the development of a digital health tech ecosystem for older adults in Singapore.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct literature search

• Assist in development and conceptualization of surveys, experiments, and focus group/in-depth interviews

• Assist in data analysis of surveys, experiments, focus group/in-depth interviews, and “big data” from social media and health apps/wearables

• Contribute to research publications and presentations

• Assist in writing progress report and final research report

• Engage in the dissemination of the results of the research with the support of and under the supervision of the Principal Investigator

• Carry out administrative work associated with the program of research as necessary

Job Requirements:

• PhD and Master in fields including communication, psychology, sociology, or a social science related discipline. Bachelor’s degree with experiences in similar field are welcome.

• Prior experience in social science research (e.g., quantitative/qualitative projects) and/or research in the use of digital health technologies (eg., health apps, wearables, exergames, VR/AR) in older adults

• Good quantitative/qualitative data management and analytical skills (e.g., being able to analyze data using SPSS, MPLUS, R, and/or Python)

• Good communication and organizational skills (ability to work in a highly collaborative and multi-cultural team environment)

• Driven self-starter with good interpersonal communication skills

• Team player in a project setting, also with ability to work independently in a multi-cultural team environment

• Internationally recognized research track record as evidenced by journal publications and conference presentations

Salary will commensurate with experience and qualifications.

We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Hiring Institution: NTU

The Corporate Communications Office (CCO) works to enhance the University’s reputation by raising awareness of NTU’s vision and mission and achievements in education, research and innovation. The media relations role helps to build awareness of the University’s activities and strengths by optimising media publicity for the University on various media and communication platforms, working closely with both internal and external stakeholders, its industry and academic partners, and various government ministries and agencies.

CCO is home to a world-class team of communicators that has won international, regional and local awards in public relations, marketing and communication over the last decade.

Responsibilities

The Senior Assistant Manager, Media Relations is to source newsworthy and impactful stories across the University in the areas of education, research and innovation, with a focus on science communication, and to conceptualise and develop communciation plans that result in sustained and positive publicity for the University.

With a strong nose for news and the abilty to sift through information, you are to translate NTU’s research discoveries and innovations into positive stories in local and international media and the University’s various communication platforms.

A versatile and passionate communicator, you are to develop communication plans for media publicity projects that may include new corporate initiatives and announcements, launch of academic and research programmes, and various achievements by the University and the NTU community to engage the University’s stakeholders.

You will help develop and implement integrated communication strategies that highlight the University’s strengths in research and innovation, with a strong focus on sustainability research, that cut across the different communication functions of the Corporate Communications Office, to obtain sustained and favourable publicity in local and international media.

We need someone creative who enjoys developing publicity worthy content and who has the analytical ability to sift through information and zoom in to find the gems and apply a sharp focus to get the job done ahead of time, and at the highest quality.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communication, journalism, or other applicable disciplines.

• 3 to 5 years’ experience in journalism is preferred, or experience in editorial writing or in a media relations role in a large organisation.

• Excellent news sense and experience of news and feature writing and editing, and ability to convey messages succinctly, responsibly, and accurately.

• An exemplary writer with exceptional editing, writing and storytelling skills, as well as editorial packaging abilities and the ability to use multimedia storytelling to advance stories.

• Demonstrated ability to tailor communications for a broad range of audiences and on both print and digital platforms.

Hiring Institution: NTU