Job Description

The position is an integral member of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (YST) Student Life Office and will be responsible for administering all admission-related matters at the Conservatory. The individual is the front-facing liaison to prospective applicants and will conduct regular outreach activities to market for admissions, facilitate and conduct auditions for all offered majors locally and overseas. The individual will also be the main coordinator of all specialised instrumental/composition workshops designed to engage the music community.

Duties & Responsibilities
Admissions

• Plan and administer regular outreach activities to promote the Conservatory\'s degree programmes to prospective students in high schools, junior colleges and polytechnics.
• Develop and implement student recruitment campaigns across traditional and digital media.
• Manage all admission enquiries.
• Administer the YST admissions portal and application materials.
• Facilitate all audition set-up requirements including securing overseas audition venues.
• Schedule all auditions for admissions.
• Administer all assessment sheets and grading process.
• Administer and communicate application results to applicants.

Outreach

• Administer and manage all outreach activities including NUS and YST Open Day, as well as education fairs in high schools.
• Faculty representation for all NUS outreach activities.
• Main liaison with the NUS Office of Admissions on annual publication.
• Workshops
• Manage and administer all the operational requirements of specialised workshops including the Young Composers\' Academy, YST Piano Academy, YST Double Reed Day and Mix with YST workshops.
• Main coordinator for the Young Artist Programme and a proposed new Young Artist Academy.

Qualifications

• Degree from a recognised university.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with good grasp of written and spoken English.
• Self-driven, proactive, organized and able to work both independently and collaboratively and in a flexible manner - out of office hours as required.
• Meticulous, able to manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Creative, self-starter, and creative in marketing for admissions.
• Good team player
• Service-oriented with conceptual and analytical mindset.
• Musical background required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications (Word and Excel) required.
• Proficiency in design software (Adobe Creative Applications) an advantage.
• Experience in managing arts groups an advantage.

Enquiries about the position can be sent to Mr Tan Wei Boon (weiboon@nus.edu.sg).

Covid-19 Message

At NUS, the health and safety of our staff and students are one of our utmost priorities, and COVID-vaccination supports our commitment to ensure the safety of our community and to make NUS as safe and welcoming as possible. Many of our roles require a significant amount of physical interactions with students/staff/public members. Even for job roles that may be performed remotely, there will be instances where on-campus presence is required.

Taking into consideration the health and well-being of our staff and students and to better protect everyone in the campus, applicants are strongly encouraged to have themselves fully COVID-19 vaccinated to secure successful employment with NUS.

More Information

Location: Kent Ridge Campus

Organization: Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music

Department : Dean\'s Office (YST Conservatory of Music)

Employee Referral Eligible:

Job requisition ID : 19029

National University of Singapore