Lecturer (NUS College)

EURAXESS Ireland; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

NUS College (NUSC) seeks dedicated full-time lecturers on the Educator Track to teach the Reasoning with Data course and supervise interdisciplinary student projects in Southeast Asia. The role offers potential for promotion to Associate Professor with an Open Contract on the Educator Track and includes opportunities for pedagogical research funding.

Candidates must hold a PhD and demonstrate ability to teach across interdisciplinary domains, with potential for 2–3 sections of RWD annually and

Qualifications

• PhD required from a recognized university.
• Experience teaching at university level and developing courses.
• Ability to teach cross-disciplinary data and quantitative courses.

Responsibilities

• Teach the mandatory RWD course and ensure a shared curricular experience.
• Supervise IEx student teams working on Southeast Asia community projects.
• Teach GEx courses in Southeast Asia and contribute to curriculum development.
• Manage 2–3 sections of RWD per academic year and oversee independent study modules.

Skills

Teaching

Course design

Education

PhD

Job description

Organisation/Company NUS COLLEGE Research Field Educational sciences Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Established Researcher (R3) Application Deadline 3 May 2027 - 00:00 (UTC) Country Singapore Type of Contract Other Job Status Full-time Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

Job Description

NUS College (NUSC), the honours program for the National University of Singapore, is seeking dedicated individuals for full-time, renewable lecturer positions, with opportunities for pedagogical research funding and for promotion to Associate Professor with Open Contract on the NUS Educator Track, as described below.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The primary responsibility is to offer at least one of our mandatory courses, to which you will be expected to bring your own academic and intellectual expertise. The courses are:

Reasoning with Data (GEA1000N)

The core competency course Reasoning with Data (RWD) concerns how data are collected, organised, analysed, presented, and discussed to gain understanding and guide actions. Students build numerical intuition and skills in data visualisation, descriptive and inferential statistics, probability, and hypothesis testing. Each topic is explored with real-world data and contexts ranging from voting patterns to environmental quality. To facilitate problem-solving and practical application, the course uses both a flipped classroom approach and team-based learning with peers from diverse technical and quantitative backgrounds. Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on critical approaches and conceptual understanding alongside technical mastery.

Impact Experience Project (NEP3001)

The Impact Experience (IEx) is an eight-unit capstone course that all NUS College students will have to undertake for two years. Students will work in interdisciplinary teams to collaborate with non-profit partners and innovate future solutions for the benefit of communities and society in Southeast Asia, including Singapore. Each team of 6-7 students is supervised by a lecturer who specializes in the area they are working with. Students would choose to work with lecturers clustered into three broad areas: Science and Technology, Arts and Design, Civic and Community.

Global Experience courses (NEX3000 series)

Our flagship Global Experience (GEx) courses offer specially curated programmes in specially selected cities around the world. Students will choose from a variety of themes offered, unique to each city or region. The structure of each GEx is uniquely designed and goes well beyond traditional classwork and will involve activities such as seminars with guest professors; workshops with practitioners; masterclasses with experts; fireside chats with important personalities; and field visits to pertinent sites such as start-ups, research centres, government offices, cultural and community institutions. Students will be required to participate fully in these curated activities for the entirety of the programme duration. Each GEx has a theme that leverages the relative strengths of the region and takes place for one month in the summer, with a few preparatory lectures and seminars in the semester before, and assignments due in the semester after.

Applicants from any field representing the sciences and quantitative social sciences are welcome to apply for this position. We are interested in candidates whose work is cross-disciplinary and can be applied to better understand and tackle social, environmental and developmental problems in Singaporean and Southeast Asian contexts. This includes having clear ideas about how the use of modern artificial intelligence systems can be incorporated (where appropriate) to help better understand or address those problems.

The selected candidate's primary responsibility will be to teach RWD together with other course instructors to ensure that students have a common curricular experience while allowing for individual instructor creativity in their seminars. Applicants should demonstrate their ability to teach such a course. The other responsibility will be to supervise IEx student teams working on projects that involve community service learning in Southeast Asia, and/or to teach the GEx course in Southeast Asia. Therefore, applicants with community networks in field sites in Southeast Asia are preferred. Successful candidates are expected to offer 2-3 sections of RWD in the academic year, an elective of their own design, supervise 3-6 IEx teams in a Southeast Asian country (excluding Singapore) and/or teach the GEx in a Southeast Asian country (excluding Singapore) on a rotational basis, and take on a small supervision load of independent study modules.

Qualifications

Candidates must hold a PhD. Remuneration and benefits are highly competitive on the global research university level. Expatriate benefits may include travel assistance from overseas and limited housing benefits.

Appointments begin at the level of Lecturer on the Educator Track. The contract is for 3 years in the first instance and is renewable subject to good performance.

Online interviews will be conducted. Only shortlisted applicants will be notified.