"Senior Assistant Manager, Curriculum, Division of Graduate Studies (2 years' contract)"

Job Description

NUS Medicine (Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine) is seeking a Senior Assistant Manager to strengthen curriculum governance and operational delivery across our Graduate Studies portfolio. The role leads the end-to-end curriculum review and implementation cycle, ensuring proposals are evidence-based, committee-ready, compliant, and translated accurately into operational deliverables.

1) Curriculum review cycle planning & academic governance (portfolio-level)

• Plan and run the annual/periodic curriculum review calendar across the Graduate Studies programme portfolio.
• Partner Programme Directors and academic leads to ensure curriculum proposals are committee-ready, evidence-based, and aligned with agreed learning outcomes, assessment principles, stackability/pathway rules (where applicable), and institutional requirements.
• Coordinate faculty-level academic committee reviews: manage submissions, scheduling, agenda readiness, and turnaround timelines.
• Capture decisions accurately, maintain a decision register and audit trail, and track approvals through to closure.

2) Curriculum documentation, quality assurance & standards

• Maintain and improve curriculum governance templates and documentation standards (e.g., module/course descriptors, learning outcomes, change logs).
• Quality-check learning outcome–assessment alignment and completeness/accuracy of curriculum documentation.
• Ensure consistent application and documentation of stackable CET pathway rules (where applicable).

3) Implementation tracking & handover

• Track implementation actions post-approval with programme operations teams (e.g., handbooks, public programme information, LMS setup and updates).
• Ensure effective dates, cohort impacts, and stakeholder communications are accurate and delivered on time.
• Support readiness for programme launches/updates and reduce post-implementation errors.

4) Process improvement, reporting & team leadership

• Maintain operational dashboards/insights for curriculum review throughput, decision timelines, and implementation status.
• Identify bottlenecks and drive process improvements, standardisation, SOP development, and automation opportunities.
• Provide guidance and coaching to programme administration staff involved in curriculum operations (team leadership scope may include 5–6 direct reports, depending on structure).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Approximately 8 years of relevant experience, preferably in higher education administration, academic governance, or curriculum operations.
• Strong capability in committee secretariat work, governance documentation, and running structured review cycles with clear timelines and auditability.
• Demonstrated project management discipline; able to manage multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and deadlines.
• Strong analytical, interpersonal and writing skills; meticulous with high attention to detail and a service-oriented mindset.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office; comfortable working with LMS dashboards/data management and content standardisation/publication readiness.
• Prior people leadership experience is preferred

Posting Start Date: 24/03/2026