Assistant Director, Career Education

The Assistant Director, Career Education provides institutional leadership in the design and delivery of industry-aligned, credit-bearing career education that strengthens students career readiness and improves graduate employment outcomes at NTU.

This role plays a pivotal part in advancing NTU's mission to enhance employability outcomes through rigorous, relevant, and scalable career education. Operating at the intersection of industry engagement, curriculum design, and student development, the Assistant Director shapes NTU's career education strategy and ensures that career learning is outcome-driven, evidence-based, and responsive to industry needs.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Employability-Led Curriculum Strategy & Design

• Lead the end-to-end design of NTU's career education curriculum, ensuring strong alignment between industry hiring needs and emerging skills, student developmental readiness across academic stages and graduate employment outcomes and employer feedback.

• Conceptualise, design, and implement the ML15 career course (AY27/28) for 6,000 Year 3 and 4 students, with a clear employability competency framework (eg career clarity, job search strategy, enhanced job search skills, workplace readiness).

• Design targeted curriculum interventions (modules, workshops, micro-learning) for student segments with weaker employment outcomes, using data from GES, career coaching insights, and employer feedback.

• Embed active, applied, and authentic learning pedagogies, including industry case challenges, simulated recruitment and assessment exercises and applied career strategy assignments.

• Design robust assessments and assignments that measure learning outcomes, skill acquisition, and behavioural readiness for employment.

2. Industry Intelligence, Learning Needs Analysis & Programme Innovation

• Actively scan and interpret labour market trends, future, skills, industry hiring practices, and employer expectations across key sectors relevant to NTU graduates.

• Conduct structured focus groups, interviews, and consultations with employers and industry partners, students across disciplines and year of study and career coaches, industry relations consultants, and internship colleagues.

• Diagnose student learning skills gaps in areas such as career decision-making, job search strategy, job search competencies, and workplace readiness.

• Proactively propose, design, and pilot new career and skills programmes, workshops, and modules to address identified skills gaps.

• Establish evaluation frameworks to assess programme effectiveness and learning impact.

3. Industry Partnerships & External Expert Ecosystem

• Leverage an established network of external training consultants, HR leaders, recruiters, and industry practitioners to co-develop and deliver career learning at scale.

• Assess, appoint, and manage external subject matter experts based on industry credibility and relevance, pedagogical effectiveness and ability to engage and develop students meaningfully.

• Co-create curriculum and learning activities with industry partners to ensure authenticity and relevance.

• Build a sustainable and high-quality consultant ecosystem, with performance benchmarking and feedback loops.

4. Strategic NTU Partnerships

• Establish strategic and sustained partnerships with CAO teams, ICC Office, NTU Honours College, Schools/Colleges etc to embed career learning meaningfully within academic pathways.

• Provide thought leadership and advisory input on employability, curriculum design, and student development initiatives.

• Influence stakeholders to align curriculum, assessment, and student development efforts toward shared employability outcomes.

5. Programme Management, Governance and People Leadership

• Lead and develop a team of managers and executives responsible for end-to-end programme design, delivery, quality assurance, and evaluation, setting clear performance standards and building team capability.

• Direct the planning, delivery, and continuous improvement of large-scale, credit-bearing career courses and career booster workshops aligned with employability outcomes.

• Establish and enforce programme governance frameworks, operating standards, and controls to ensure quality, scalability, and delivery consistency across formats.

• Oversee operational execution including scheduling, trainer resourcing, vendor coordination, and logistics to ensure smooth delivery.

• Drive integrated publicity and student engagement strategies to maximise awareness, reach, and participation across target student segments.

• Systematically analyse student and trainer feedback to strengthen curriculum quality and delivery effectiveness.

• Implement measurement and reporting frameworks to track participation, satisfaction, and learning outcomes.

• Manage and optimise an annual Career Education budget of $100K in alignment with strategic priorities and programme impact.

Job Requirements:

• A recognized Bachelor's degree with minimum 8 years experience in Human Capital Development, Organisational Development, Learning & Development, or related domains.

• Master's degree in Education, Human Capital Development, Organizational Development or a related field is strongly preferred.

• Formal training or certification in curriculum design, assessment, or adult learning is an advantage.

Knowledge and Experiences:

• Strong understanding of recruitment practices, future skills, industry trends and graduate employability.

• Deep expertise in curriculum design, assessment design, and learning outcomes measurement, particularly for applied and experiential learning.

• Competent in instructional design methodologies and active learning pedagogies.

• Proficient in leveraging technology to improve course delivery, communication, and reporting.

• Strong understanding of evaluation methods and limitations in measuring employment-related outcomes.

• Familiarity with higher education learning settings, governance, quality assurance, and large-scale programme delivery is strongly preferred.

• Demonstrated success in designing and implementing large-scale learning programmes.

• Proven experience translating industry needs into curriculum and assessment design.

• Strong stakeholder engagement experience, working across internal teams, academic units, external consultants, and industry practitioners to co-deliver impactful and learner-centric programmes.

• Skilled in student engagement strategies, including targeted email marketing, copywriting, and communications planning to drive participation in non-compulsory programmes.

• Ability to manage budgets and prioritize resources for high-impact outcomes.

• Competent in data interpretation and impact reporting, using large datasets to monitor programme effectiveness, student satisfaction, and operational performance.

• Experience in leading teams.

Skills & Competencies:

• Strategic and systems thinking, with the ability to connect curriculum decisions to employment outcomes.

• Strong analytical and diagnostic skills to identify learning gaps and programme effectiveness.

• Proven ability to lead complex, multi-stakeholder programmes from design through to execution and evaluation.

• Competent in curriculum design, programme evaluation, and learning outcomes measurement.

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the capacity to identify trends, diagnose root causes of operational issues, and implement data-informed solutions for continuous improvement.

• Ability to manage ambiguity, complexity, and competing priorities.

• Resourceful and proactive problem-solver, adept at anticipating challenges and deploying practical, timely responses to ensure smooth programme delivery and stakeholder satisfaction.

• Highly collaborative with strong stakeholder engagement skills.

• Strong time management and multi-tasking skills, with the ability to prioritize competing demands and deliver outcomes efficiently under tight timelines.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to craft compelling student messaging, produce clear and actionable reports, and engage professionally with a wide range of stakeholders.

• Competent in leading teams, coaching, and performance management.

• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for student outcomes.

• Deep commitment to student development, equity, and employability.

• Credible, grounded, and respected by staff, academics and industry stakeholders.

• Comfortable operating under time pressure and ambiguity.

• Proactive, improvement-oriented, and solutions-focused.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.