Program Manager, Graduate School of Business

Job Description

1. coordinating and supporting all processes related to training of School students;

2. providing advisory and information support of School faculty and students regarding School programs, its goals, policies and regulations;

3. providing advisory and information support of School faculty and students regarding academic issues in accordance with goals and objectives of training program (full-time MBA program, MBA program for executives, MSc in Finance);

4. maintaining students database;

5. planning costs and generating draft budget for training program implementation (full-time MBA program, MBA program for executives, MSc in Finance, Master of Engineering Management);

6. monitoring students’ academic progress;

7. providing complex targeted support to low-performing students;

8. drafting correspondence on academic issues of students; keeping group training records: documents execution on the results of academic progress, attendance (if necessary), etc.;

9. arranging group’s participation in the events of School and University;

10. preparing and delivering reports on training program implementation (students’ progress, budget implementation, etc.), writing policy briefs (if necessary);

11. assisting the processes of risks identification, assessment, management, monitoring within the framework of supervised area;

12. timely and proper fulfillment of other orders of the Head of division and the University management within the framework of his/her responsibilities and powers.

Qualifications

• Higher education, preferably with English as a language of instruction.

Priority specializations:

• Economics;

• Finance;

• Accounting and Auditing;

• Marketing;

• Business Administration;

• Public Administration;

• International Relations;

• Administration in the field of education

• Work experience must meet one of the following requirements:

• with Specialist or Bachelor degree, work experience should be at least 1 year in the areas corresponding to the functional areas of a given position.

Additional Information

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of education;

• fluent in English, Kazakh, Russian

• knowledge of MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint

Skills

• • critical thinking;
• • building effective relations;
• • interpersonal skills;
• • teamwork skills;
• • responsibility;
• • developed leadership skills, ability to provide advice on the issues within his/her competence;
• • stress resistance, creative approach to strategic and operational tasks/problems;
• • strong organizational skills, ability to clearly define priority tasks, distribute resources necessary for functional tasks performance;
• • sensitiveness, tolerance;
• • group and individual activity planning skills;
• • presentation preparation and realization skills;
• • analytical abilities;
• • records management skills;
• • statistical data processing and databases maintaining skills;
• • negotiation and contracts conclusion skills;

• Recruitment and selection process

• Recruitment and selection at Nazarbayev University include the following process: preliminary selection based on experience and qualifications, assessments (e.g. technical skills/capabilities, aptitude, personality, work samples, in-basket exercises, and informal interviews), and motivation.

• Formal interviews form the final stage of the selection process.

• They are typically based on organizational values and behaviors and conducted in English.

• You are encouraged to share your views and values to identify how they fit into Nazarbayev University core values