Executive Officer – Department of English

The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK) is a non-profit private liberal-arts-oriented university with five Schools (Business, Communication, Decision Sciences, Humanities and Social Science, and Translation and Foreign Languages) and over 6,000 full-time students. Adopting the unique “Liberal + Professional” education model, HSUHK aims to nurture young talents with critical thinking, innovative minds, caring attitudes, moral values and social responsibility.

Aspiring to be a leading private university in the region, HSUHK features a primary focus on undergraduate education, top-quality faculty members, award-winning green campus facilities, innovative degree programmes, unique residential college system combining living and learning, interactive small class teaching, very close student-teacher relationship, RGC-funded impactful research, and excellent student development/support services. HSUHK is listed the 7th (overall) in the ASEAN+ region, the 1st in the Greater China region, and the 1st in Employability as per the 2023 AppliedHE ASEAN+ private university assessment by the Singapore-based AppliedHE. It is also listed among the top 200 worldwide on “Quality Education” and “Decent Work and Economic Growth” in the Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2021.

The University now invites application for the following position:

Executive Officer – Department of English (Ref: EO (ENG) 2024-08-30)

Responsibilities: 

• provide administrative and secretarial support for the following programmes: BA-ENG, MA-ELTA, MA-GELCS;
• provide support in various accreditation and re-accreditation exercises;
• promote the Department’s current undergraduate and postgraduate programmes; and
• supervise department-related projects and assist in production of promotional materials. 

Applicants should:

• possess a recognised bachelor’s degree preferably majoring in an English-related field and have at least 5 years of work experience in the education sector;
• be proficient in computer skills including Word, Excel and PowerPoint; 
• have a remarkably good command of spoken and written English;
• possess excellent interpersonal, organisational and problem-solving skills;
• be detail-oriented, responsible, self-motivated and a good team player; and
• be able to work independently and take up ad hoc duties.

Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Interested applicant should visit this link https://recruit.hsu.edu.hk/ and apply on or before 15 September 2024.  The University reserves the right not to fill the position in this exercise.