Lead Career Coach (Postgraduate Programmes and Scholars)
Job Description:
To support NTU Education 2025 and beyond, this role is critical as part of the Career & Attachment Office (CAO)’s strategy to develop NTU students into future-ready graduates.
As a Senior Assistant Director, this role is responsible for leading a team of coaches to deliver impactful career development programmes and employment outcomes for postgraduate students and NTU scholars.
This strategic role, as a Lead Career Coach for NTU postgraduate (PG) students and NTU scholars, guides, coaches and empowers them in their personal self-discovery, career exploration and professional development, thereby enhancing their employability and employment aligned to their career interests and goals.
The role includes being a Career Business Partner for stakeholders involved.
Responsibilities:
Overall responsible for the career-readiness of NTU PG students and NTU scholars.
1. Strategic Role:
Develop coaching strategies to ensure students’ career-readiness.
Work closely with stakeholders to curate and execute career development programmes.
Collaborator and Point of Contact (POC) to all stakeholders.
Provide regular updates and reports to senior leadership on the impact of career development programmes.
Leverage data insights to refine strategies and optimize the delivery of career services.
2. Leadership Role:
Lead and mentor career coach/es to deliver high-quality coaching.
Set performance goals, conduct regular reviews, and provide professional development opportunities for the team.
Foster a collaborative and innovative culture within the team, encouraging data-driven approaches and best practices in career coaching.
3. Coaching Role:
Provide 1:1 coaching and conduct small group coaching.
Guide students in exploring their career preferences, strengths, values and interests.
Coach students in their career exploration and planning.
Provide students with information and resources on career-related topics (job search strategies, resume writing, interview skills, industry skills frameworks, career workshops etc).
Coach students in strategies for internship and job search.
Engage students, student groups, and faculty members in career awareness and preparation matters.
Customize and deliver schools’ career engagement activities to increase students' employability (e.g., Industry-Specific skills workshops, networking events, and alumni-sharing sessions.
Collaborate with the Industry Relations team to identify and develop partnerships with employers
Involve in schools’ career-centric activities (e.g. PG Career Day).
Job Requirements:
A recognised degree with 10 to 12 years of experience, including at least 7 years’ experience in career coaching/counselling/career services/graduate recruitment/human resources/executive search/learning and development.
A relevant Masters degree is a bonus.
Change agent and constantly initiating new ideas within the College-level team of Career Coaches to increase awareness and CAO’s services to the students.
Relevant career coaching certification(s).
Possess qualifications/certification in self-assessment and career profiling tools.
High performing coach with experience in engaging:
- Students and early career talents
- High performing students
- Highly diverse student groups – by nationality, age group, work experienceKnowledgeable in traditional and technology/AI-enabled career coaching tools.
Knowledgeable of industries and workplace and employer expectations.
Strong initiative, self-motivated, and focused on helping students to achieve career success.
Proven ability to lead and manage a high-performing team in a dynamic environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Strong expertise in providing career advisory services to postgraduate students, with an understanding of coursework and research needs.
Active listener with strong critical thinking and decision-making skills.
Meticulous with strong organisation and administration skills.
Excellent team player with excellent interpersonal, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
Proficient in MS Office tools and in using data to measure outcomes, inform strategies, and improve services.
We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
Hiring Institution: NTU