Specialist for Academic and Student Affairs (Full-time position), School of Sciences and Humanities

  • Full-time
  • Job Type: Administrative staff
  • School: School of Sciences and Humanities

Company Description

School of Sciences and Humanities is a community of scholars, students, and staff committed to research and education covering a broad range of disciplines fundamental to modern scholarship

Job Description

   Specialist is imposed with the following functions:

  1. preparing and maintaining contracts with undergraduate students;
  2. planning costs and generating budget on student part of the School ;   
  3. coordinating, analyzing and managing data on students enrollment to the School: maintaining data on initial students registration, subsequent students enrollment to the School, changes in the number of students related to transfer between Schools/Universities and reapplication for participation in students enrollment contest;  
  4. analyzing the demand for subject by students from other Schools; administering courses evaluation (required for the faculty employment contracts prolongation);
  5. administering course evaluation (required to extend faculty employment contracts);
  6. monitoring, recording and analyzing academic progress of undergraduate students; maintaining and supporting disciplinary cases; providing assistance to the students at risk;
  7. participating in undergraduate students admission and enrollment, online registration;  
  8. assisting and supporting students regarding absence from classes due to illness and other health factors (assignments); administering the military registration of students;
  9. preparing orders and document support for the School  students’ travels and internships;
  10. collecting agreements for probation period of undergraduate and graduate students; 
  11. organizing and participating in the School’s activities related to academic process;
  12. drafting correspondence on internal and external academic issues of the School  students;
  13. providing psychological assistance and educational work with students;
  14. participating in development and improvement of administrative systems and strategies for the work with the School  students;
  15. recording and tracking official instructions, given by the University management on the issues within the School’s competence, as well as subsequent preparation of reports for the Head;
  16. providing reports and data on the issues within his/her competence upon request of structural divisons of the University in agreement with the Head;
  17. cooperating with other structural divisions and departments, as necessary (with the   Office of the Registrar,  Admissions Department, the Department of Student Affairs, the Career and Advising Centre);
  18. monitoring compliance with internal documents of the University on the issues within his/her competence;
  19. providing technical and methodological assistance to School  employees on the issues within his/her competence;
  20. participation in identification, evaluation, management and monitoring of risks within the framework of supervised direction
  21. timely and proper fulfillment of other orders of the vice-Dean and Head of the School and the University management within the framework of his/her responsibilities and powers.

    Qualifications

    Requirements
    Education:     Higher
    Priority specializations:
    -    Economics;
    -    Education;
    -    Finance;
    -    Management;
    -    Pedagogy;
    -    Linguistics;
    -   Business administration 
    Work experience   

    Required work experience is defined in accordance with standard qualifications for administrative positions at the autonomous organization of education “Nazarbayev University”
    Professional competences  

    -    Ability to work with a large amount of information;
    -    Compulsory knowledge of English;
    -    analytical skills;
    -    writing and speaking literacy;
    -    web-site administration experience and skills in Wordpress;
    -    knowledge and skills in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro (or other movie-editor), and in other software which is essential for visual content design of the promotional campaigns;
    -    High level of knowledge and skills in MS Office software (Word, Excel, Power Point etc.); 
    -    skills in interconnection with the mass-media;
    -    skills in business correspondence;
    -    Good writing skills and report preparation, incl. English language;
    -    creativity;
    -    skills in organizing social events;
    -    social media management skills in the Internet communities
    Personal skills

    -    Nazarbayev University competency model;
    -    сommitment to goals and values of the University; 
    -    ability to work in a team and independently in a big company;
    -    very good leadership skills;
    -    communicability;
    -    responsibility;
    -    initiative;
    -    stress resistance; 
    -    responsible approach to work

    Qualification requirements:

    1. with Bachelor degree, professional experience should be at least 1 year in the areas corresponding to functional areas of a specific position at the international and/or national companies; or 
    2. with a degree from the higher education institution with English language of instruction and medium of assessment, work experience is not required.