Assistant Manager, Transition & Integration

The Student and Academic Services Department (SASD) is a dedicated team committed to delivering comprehensive support across the entire student life cycle-from admission and matriculation to graduation and beyond the classroom. SASD works collaboratively with schools, colleges, and autonomous institutes to ensure a seamless and enriching academic journey for all students. This position sits with the Student Affairs Office (SAO), which is one of the functions within SASD. The SAO plays a key role in co-creating a meaningful and enriching student life experience through student-led activities, leadership development initiatives, residential life programmed, integration efforts, community engagement initiatives, arts and sports.

The Assistant Manager designs and delivers Transition & Integration initiatives. Specifically, Transition initiatives aim to enable students to transit effectively into and through their university journey, while Integration initiatives aim to enable a positive international student experience and meaningful social integration between local and international students. Through these efforts, the role promotes intercultural understanding, a strong sense of belonging, and student success across the community.

Key Responsibilities:

International Student Experience and Integration

• Manage the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of targeted initiatives that support international students transition across academic, social, and cultural domains.

• Develop university-wide Integration initiatives that promotes meaningful social mixing between local and international students, including buddy programmes, intercultural dialogues, and community projects.

• Partner with schools, student organisations, residential halls, and central offices to embed integration agenda into the broader student experience.

• Develop metrics and evaluation frameworks to assess Integration outcomes for continuous improvement.

Transition Journey Mapping and Programmes

• Support the planning, execution, and continuous improvement of centralised Transition programmes with the aim of delivering a robust first year transition experience for freshmen.

• Manage the development of a Transition journey map as a guide for students to transit effectively in their first semester, including ensuring its dissemination and active adoption by students.

Scholars Engagement

• Collaborate with various internal stakeholders to ensure that the wellbeing of S&T and ASEAN scholars, both academic and co-curricular, are taken care of throughout their undergraduate years.

• Prepare university-wide reporting to MOE with regards to Integration matters and scholar status.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline.

• At least 3 - 5 years of relevant experience which involves considerable interaction with students experience in the tertiary education sector will be advantageous.

• Experience in youth development and/or IHL orientation programmes and integration of international students.

• Project management skills in coordinating large-scale projects.

• Proven track record in stakeholder management.

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