Job Posting
Intern, Operations (A)
Location: Singapore
Deadline: 2025-12-31
Overview
Koru Partners is a thematically driven alternative investment firm identifying attractive investment opportunities that are backed by macro-holistic themes encompassing forward-looking social, economic, demographic, and technological changes.
We are inspired to be the world’s leading business partner for unique insights, understanding and decision making. It is our mission to understand the challenges facing humanity and to empower people and companies, working to transform such challenges into opportunities through allocation of capital.
We are currently streamlining our company operations and seeking an intern to support our projects and explore innovative solutions to minimize manual processes. If you are eager to learn, problem-solve, and contribute to operational efficiency, we invite you to be part of our journey. We welcome applicants who can commit to at least 3 months full-time basis, with the potential for a part-time arrangement thereafter.
What You Can Expect
Salary: SGD 1,200 per month for full-time
Company Culture:
- Strong emphasis on company core values to guide you in your day-to-day work and life
- Dynamic and fun team who will challenge and support you
- Flexible and transparent work culture
- Training to allow you to grow and improve your knowledge and skills
Responsibilities
- Office Operations Management: Ensure smooth day-to-day office operations by maintaining a well-organized and functional workplace.
- Administrative Support: Provide administrative assistance across departments, including planning, scheduling, coordinating, and executing tasks.
- Proactive Coordination: Anticipate and address departmental needs to facilitate efficient operations.
- Process Improvement: Participate in continuous improvement initiatives, contributing to the optimization of workflows and internal controls.
- Ad-hoc Tasks: Take on additional duties as needed to support the firm's evolving requirements.
Essential to Have
- Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Software Proficiency: Competency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and Google Workspace (Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, etc.).
- Tech-Savviness: Comfortable using various digital tools (e.g., Asana, Slack, Dropbox, Zoom) for task management.
Ideal Requirements
- Highly motivated to learn about and improve company operations.
- Independent, self-driven, and able to work with minimal supervision.
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills.
- Logical thinker with problem-solving capabilities.
About You
We are a firm expecting collaborators to be highly aligned with our core values. Therefore, you should be:- Dedicated and Driven. You are a self-starter who is able to work effectively with low levels of supervision or minimum direction while under pressure in a fast-paced environment. You are energetic, resourceful, and a hands-on individual who pursues goals with sense of urgency. You readily cope with changing priorities, take initiative, and able to follow through with assigned tasks.
- Integrity and Ethics. You have a strong, ingrained sense of professional integrity and ethics.
- Entrepreneurial and Effective Team Member. You have the ability to see the commercial angle, while being mindful of associated risks. You have strong leadership qualities and can assume responsibilities, while being a team player within a high-performance group.
- Agile Thinker. You enjoy solving complex problems and able to see the big picture while mapping out the details to achieve your goals. You are creative about providing innovative solutions (new processes, technologies, and approaches).
To Apply
Please kindly prepare the following information:- Resume
- Latest available transcript of all courses taken
- 500 words or less response to “What matters to you the most? and why?” (An email will be sent to you requesting for this essay the next working day after job application is submitted).