NU is aspiring to become an international research university, equally focusing on providing world-class education, facilitating research, and supporting innovation. Our main goal is to foster the country's future leaders and professionals. Nazarbayev University is committed to excellence in research and education; our institution's core values are academic freedom, institutional autonomy, and merit-based admission and progression system.

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Senior Manager is imposed with the following functions:
1) develops, plans, coordinates, implements and reports on Employment Program;
2) develops, plans, coordinates, implements and reports on Career Development Course;
3) plans and coordinates Internship Program, supporting students and employers with nec-essary documentation and guidance;
4) maintains and updates internship database, employer database and vacancies database on a regular basis;
5) creates student resume database;
6) analyzes Employment Program, Career Development Course, Internship Program, Work on Campus Program, employers, and vacancies data, makes conclusions and recommenda-tions for further improving the Division’s services, generates reports on a regular basis and upon request;
7) engages the University’s Schools and employers in both Employment Program and Ca-reer Development Course;
8) reaches target employers to build cooperation with them to broaden opportunities for the University’s students;
9) assists with signing memorandums and agreements of cooperation with employers;
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10) engages students and student clubs in both Employment Program and Career Develop-ment Course;
11) coordinates Work on Campus Program, supporting students and employers with nec-essary documentation and guidance;
12) develops training materials, conducts career-related trainings and workshops;
13) gives career advice and assistance to students in basic job search techniques (e.g. re-sume and cover letter preparation, interviewing skills, job search techniques);
14) keeps up-to-date the Division’s CareerNet with posting jobs and events announce-ments;
15) collects information within the specified functional area and provide inputs for the Di-vision’s websites, publications and social media update on a regular basis;
16) develops, deploys and analyzes student and employer satisfaction surveys;
17) replaces responsible staff during their absence;
18) administrative support for the daily activities of the Center, scheduling meetings, send-ing and receiving correspondence;
19) drafting and signing contracts, internal and external correspondence;
20) monitoring and further tracking of the Center’s document flow within the University’s electronic document management system;
21) administrative and technical support for the Center’s events and operations.
22) participates in the processes of risk identification, assessment, management, monitor-ing and generates relevant reports within supervised area;
23) timely and qualitatively executes other tasks assigned by the Head and the University Management within the job duties and authorities;
24) observes the requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the University`s internal documents;
25) is responsible for exercising the labor and performance discipline;
26) is responsible for ensuring the integrity of official documents, and prevention of the disclosure or leakage of confidential and business information, as well as information of restricted access in accordance with the legislation, Charter and internal documents of the Employer;
27) in case of dismissal, is responsible for timely transfer of all paper documentation, dig-ital information, inventory to another employee as instructed by the line manager (to be certified by the act of acceptance-transfer).

Education requirements (level, field, licenses, professional certifications, etc.):
Higher-professional, preferable from the higher education institutions with English language of instruction.
A degree preferably in:
- human resources management;
- psychology (career advising);
- business administration;
- related fields.
Work experience requirements:
Five years min.
Minimum three years with master`s degree in the relevant area
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Knowledge, skills, and competencies requirements:
1) knowledge of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On the Status of Nazarbayev University, Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools, and Nazarbayev Fund”, as well as other legislative and regulatory acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of education and human resources management;
2) inclusive collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills;
3) ability to analyze data and complex problems, develop conclusions and solutions;
4) skills in project management, professional development, customer relations management, career planning and strategic planning;
5) skills to plan, develop and administer integrated programs within a public or educational institution environment
6) skills in examining and re-designing operations and procedures to simplify and improve;
7) skills in resources management, priority setting;

8) presentation and creative writing skills;
9) creative problem solving;
10) critical thinking;
11) sociability;
12) initiative;
13) responsibility;
14) result-oriented;
15) ability to work in team
16) learning agility;
17) ability to cooperate effectively with people of different ethnic and cultural background.

Language requirements:
fluency in English, Kazakh and Russian languages.

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