Assistant Director, Behavioural Science & Insights (1-year contract)

Health Promotion Board; Singapore; Presencial; SGD 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Health Promotion Board in Singapore seeks a highly motivated professional to translate research into practice, driving health promotion through population-scale digital interventions. You will distill learnings from data, behavioural science and technology into actionable recommendations, leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver innovative, AI-enabled coaching and personalisation concepts.

The role emphasizes research, synthesis, and translation with deployment as an outcome of evidence, and

Formación

• Minimum good degree in any discipline and at least 8 years total experience.
• 5 years’ experience overseeing and/or managing end‑to‑end projects with stakeholder management.
• 3+ years leading cross‑functional or multidisciplinary teams for product cycles or multi‑year initiatives.
• Practical ground experience applying behavioural insights; familiarity with design thinking.
• Experience with AI‑enabled or data‑driven digital products is a strong advantage.

Responsabilidades

• Distill insights from data, behavioural science and research into clear narratives for stakeholders.
• Incorporate behavioural insights into user experiences and digital health interventions.
• Lead the digital product cycle: ideation, design, feasibility trials, evaluation and deployment-ready insights.
• Coordinate a multidisciplinary tech squad (product, engineering, data, design) for rapid experimentation and AI-enabled coaching concepts.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts, data scientists and deployment teams to deliver innovative solutions.

Conocimientos

Big picture thinking

Insight synthesis

Cross‑functional coordination

Communication

Project management

Stakeholder management

Analytical mindset

Adaptability

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in any discipline

Descripción del empleo

What the role is:

Looking for a job that actually makes a difference? Join us at the Forefront of Shaping Healthier Lives! The Health Promotion Board (HPB) is seeking a highly motivated, innovative and dynamic candidate to advance health promotion through the translation of research to practice. The job holder will play an important role in shaping the next generation of health promotion by distilling learnings and insights research, rich data and novel technologies, and translating these into actionable recommendations that inform the development of population-scale digital health interventions. This includes leading the research and development of health interventions that integrate behavioural science, emerging technologies (including generative AI), and population-scale digital platforms.

What you will be working on:

The jobholder will drive and manage high impact projects in priority growth areas by:

• Distilling complexity across data, behavioural insights, user research and implementation constraints into clear, decision-ready narratives (in writing and slides) for diverse stakeholders
• Incorporating behavioural insights in the setup, design, testing and review of human-centric user experiences and digital health interventions
• Managing the digital product cycle, including ideation, design and execution of feasibility trials, outcome evaluation, and translation of learnings into deployment-ready insights and recommendations. This includes leading and coordinating a multidisciplinary tech squad (product, engineering, data, design) to support rapid experimentation, prototyping and evaluation of generative AI-enabled coaching and personalisation concepts.
• Working with cross-functional teams comprising subject matter experts, data scientists, deployment teams and practitioners to develop innovative and practicable solutions
• Demonstrating value to citizens in developed solution through quantifiable outputs and outcomes, and developing compelling narratives to convince and secure buy-in from internal and external stakeholders

Required Skills and Competencies:

• Ability to adopt big picture thinking and distil clarity from complex problems
• Ability to synthesise insights across multiple, partially-formed research and product workstreams into coherent decision narratives
• Ability to connect disparate signals across policy, technology, behavioural science and on-the-ground implementation for convergence into solutioning and problem solving
• Comfortable acting as an integrator across research, technology and policy rather than a depth specialist in a single domain
• Familiarity with behavioural insights and design thinking
• Comfortable managing complexity and ambiguity in a fast-paced environment
• Strong sense of intellectual curiosity and openness to new ideas
• Demonstrated ability to quickly build working knowledge in new and emerging health or technology domains
• Strong project management skills to support research, experimentation and cross-functional coordination
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to engage a wide range of audience
• Comfortable as an individual contributor or leading a team

What we are looking for:

• Good degree in any discipline
• At least 8 years of total relevant working experience with 5 years of practical experience overseeing and/or managing end-to-end projects including stakeholder management and 3 years of experience leading cross-functional or multidisciplinary teams to oversee development and implementation of end-to-end product cycles or multi-year projects
• Practical ground experience and proven track record in applying behavioural insights, with familiarity in design thinking approaches to inform intervention design and testing
• Prior experience working in the field of public health, health care, health sciences, research or quantitative domains will be an added bonus
• Experience working with AI-enabled or data-driven digital products (including generative AI) is a strong advantage

While this role works closely with AI technologies and tech teams, it remains fundamentally a research- and insight-driven role focused on learning, synthesis and translation, with deployment as an outcome of evidence rather than a starting point.

Successful candidates will be offered a 1-year contract.

About Health Promotion Board

Established in 2001, the Health Promotion Board's (HPB) vision is to build a nation of healthy people.We aim to empower residents in Singapore to attain optimal health, increase the quality and years of healthy life, and prevent illnesses, disability and premature death.To achieve this, HPB drives national health promotion and disease prevention programmes, spearheads health education initiatives and creates a supportive environment in Singapore where healthy lifestyle options are available and accessible for healthy living every day.