A premier university in Asia, the Singapore Management University (SMU) is internationally recognised for its world-class research and distinguished teaching. Established in 2000, SMU's education is known for its highly interactive, collaborative, and project-based approach to learning.
A member of SMU’s Academic Services and Operations group, the Centre for Global Education and Opportunities (GEO) plays a central role in driving global exposure participation through our deeply immersive and meaningful signature global education programmes.
Through GEO’s semester long International Student Exchange Progrmmae (ISEP) @SMU and Visiting Student Programme (VSP), we host ~ 1,000 international students each year, showcasing the best of SMU to the world.
This role of the Programme Executive is expected to support the International Student Exchange Programme (ISEP) Inbound team to manage the ISEP @SMU and VSP programmes. The ISEP Inbound team consists of a Team Lead and Programme Managers. The Programme Executive will support the Team Lead and Programme Managers for the following:
a) Programme management and operations:
- Assist with marketing and communications, such as creating social media posts, event EDMs and conducting research on various university networks for outreach purposes.
- Assist with outreach activities, such as enhancing the presentation materials using infographics and creative tools.
- Assist with post-event surveys and data analysis
b) Event organising and logistics:
- Assist to liaise with vendors, partners and internal staff to ensure timely delivery of services such as food caterering, photography, transportation service and the processing of quotations and invoices in a timely manner.
- Assist with pre and post event logistics
- Assist in the facilitation of programme activities, including but not limited to, registration, attendance taking and interaction with students.
c) Admin support
- Support with daily admin related matters such as application managing the role-based mailbox to answer queries by various stakeholders, process applications, grade transfer etc.
- Any other tasks as delegated by the Team Lead and Programme Managers
At the end of this internship, the Programme Executive would be able to acquire the basic knowledge on how to manage and run academic programmes, which can be cross-applied to other disciplines such as Marketing, Operations, and Business Development, social media development and digitalization.
Qualifications:
- Good command of the English language
- Able to communicate effectively with others
- Knowledge of Microsoft suite, canva, social media (IG, Tiktok)
- Attention to detail (data analysis)
- Able to work on multiple projects simultaneously
- Team player
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Pros: Good benefits (medical, dental insurance, M1 corporate phone plan), good work-life balance, good location with great lunch options
Cons: Low pay, not much room for career progress
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