Great ideas do not discriminate, and anyone can have them. Given the right protection and support, a great idea can become a powerful brand, a transformative technology, an innovative process or design, or even a song or story that moves one’s soul.
Housing Singapore’s largest community of intellectual property (IP) experts, IPOS understands how important it is to protect ideas and creations for now and the future. We leverage our deep technical, legal and business expertise to help innovative enterprises grow, through their intangible assets, including IP, from Singapore, through Singapore. We catalyse the ideas of today, into the assets of tomorrow.
Responsibilities
The International Engagement Department (IED) supports IPOS’ vision by establishing relationships with foreign IP stakeholders, including government agencies, institutions, creators, entrepreneurs, and others to position Singapore as a vibrant marketplace for IP transactions and commercialisation.
Reporting to the Desk Head, you will be responsible for the following:
- Support the department in coordinating various aspects of events planning and execution. These include pre-event activities such as procurement, stakeholder coordination and setup, as well as post-event tasks like summarising event outcomes and feedback.
- Support the department in coordinating various aspects of overseas trips. These include pre-event planning such as booking of flights, accommodations and arrangements for the trip to post-events tasks such as reimbursements and billing.
- Collaborate with team members, business units and various stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of events and activities. These include facilitating clear communication and addressing stakeholder needs and concerns throughout the planning and execution process.
- Address any other administrative and operational requirements within the office, including general invoicing and billing matters, note taking and filing, to ensure smooth and efficient daily operation.
- Track and maintain deliverables of events and cooperation agreements and/or programmes with various partners.
- Other ad-hoc duties assigned to you.
Please write to us if you have/are:
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment;
- Experience in managing multiple events concurrently;
- Ability to work collaboratively and build strong working relationships;
- Good in writing and able to communicate effectively;
- Able to commit for 11 months.