Assistant Director/Senior Manager, Centre for Biomedical Ethics (2-year renewable contract)

National University of Singapore, Singapore

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Job Title:  Assistant Director/Senior Manager, Centre for Biomedical Ethics (2-year renewable contract)
Posting Start Date:  03/12/2025

Job Description
  • Develop and track a 3-year plan that includes horizon scanning, scenario analysis, and strategic and tactical implementation.
  • Own budgeting (forecasting to year-end close), which includes ensuring compliant procurement, value-for-money contracts, cycle-time tracking, funder reporting, and staff cost recovery.
  • Lead and develop the admin team, including clarifying roles/workflows; managing performance; overseeing hiring, onboarding, renewals, handovers, and exits; conducting manpower planning and succession; and partnering with HR on reviews/promotions.
  • Maintain risk registers and internal controls, including ensuring compliance with finance, HR, procurement, data protection, and IT security, closing audit findings, and briefing leadership on key risks.
  • Champion LLMs and Microsoft 365 tools (Copilot, Power Automate) to automate workflows and improve reporting, as well as to deliver continuous improvement and upskill the team.
  • Oversee UG/PG and CET programme support, which includes building infrastructure for the Medical Humanities Hub and for mandatory professional ethics education nationally.
  • Serve as CBmE’s operational point-of-contact with NUS Medicine, NUHS, MOH, donors, and partners.

Qualifications
  • A recognised degree with more than 5 years of experience in operations/administration within a complex organisation
  • Proven strategic planning and delivery with measurable outcomes
  • Strong financial acumen and governance mindset
  • Excellent written and spoken English
  • Confident stakeholder engagement
  • Digital fluency with Microsoft 365 (Copilot, SharePoint, Power Automate, Teams; strong Excel)
  • Willingness to learn and implement new software tools
  • Familiarity with data protection and information governance frameworks
  • Exposure to change management and service design
  • Ability to lead AI/LLM-enabled workflow automation initiatives.

More Information

Location: Kent Ridge Campus

Organization: Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

Department : Dean-Med-Centre for Biomedical Ethics

Employee Referral Eligible:

Job requisition ID : 31132



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