Senior Manager, Policy and Programme Management (PED)

[What the role is]

Role overview: You will be responsible to support the development and implementation of the SkillsFuture Mid-Career Training Allowance (TA), a strategic national initiative aimed at enhancing support for mid-career workers to upskill and reskill to stay competitive and relevant amidst a rapidly changing economy. This is a key role that combines policy development, programme management and stakeholder engagement.

You will be working closely with key stakeholders across the Whole-of-Government to ensure alignment of policies, product strategy, implementation and strategic communications in line with the overall national agenda. You will connect issues with larger systems which include industry/training partners and identify inter-dependencies across workstreams to achieve collective outcomes. You will also lead secretariat duties, including tracking and reporting of programme outcomes.

[What you will be working on]

Role and responsibilities :

• Policy development and programme management

• Support the conceptualisation and finetuning of policy and programme parameters
• Convert policies into customer-centric solutions for the TA initiative
• Develop and maintain robust monitoring frameworks to track programme effectiveness and outcomes
• Manage budget planning

• Stakeholder management and communication

• Build and maintain strong relationship with key stakeholders across government agencies to ensure alignment in implementation and ensure smooth change management
• Lead secretariat duties for strategic meetings
• Coordinate responses to public enquiries and stakeholder feedback
• Establish and maintain up-to-date communication materials to proliferate awareness of the TA initiative

• Data analytics

• Leverage data analytics to drive policy refinements and enhance programme impact
• Monitor and analyse programme outcomes against established KPIs
• Provide evidence-based recommendation for policy improvements
• Develop regular reports on programme performance and budget utilisation

[What we are looking for]

• 7 to 10 years of experience in policy work and stakeholder engagement in complex settings
• Strong project and timeline management skills
• Conscientious planner with strategic foresight, able to translate broad problem statements into specific policies and identify key issues of relevance
• Strong policy implementation, analytical, writing, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Enjoys tackling challenges and solving complex issues, able to distil key issues from a complex set of information and synthesise diverse and conflicting range of information to shape policy, develop solutions, interventions and frameworks
• Adaptable and comfortable with operating in an ambiguous, uncertain and fast-moving environment
• Able to work well independently as well as in a team
• Has a keen interest in careers and skills policies

Successful candidates will be offered a 2-year contract in the first instance and may be considered for an extension or be placed on a permanent tenure

Candidates are encouraged to sign up for a Careers & Skills Passport (CSP) account and include your CSP public profile in your resume. Please check out www.myskillsfuture.gov.sg for details on the CSP.