Assistant Director / Manager (Contingency Management & Emergency Preparedness)

sggovterp; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

sggovterp is seeking a Contingency Planning and Emergency Preparedness Officer to join SFA operations. You will formulate, develop, and review contingency plans and SOPs for peacetime crises and emergencies, and design training plans to keep operations highly ready.

Working with WoG ministries and agencies, you will assess implications, coordinate responses, maintain situation awareness, and support crisis decision making through quarterly platforms chaired by the Deputy Director.

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Analytical mindset with attention to detail.
• Ability to manage uncertainties and grey areas in information.

Responsibilities

• Formulate, develop and implement contingency plans for peacetime crises and emergencies.
• Engage stakeholders to ensure currency of operation plans.
• Conduct periodic reviews to ensure fitness-for-purpose of plans.
• Coordinate responses across SFA and WoG ministries/agencies.
• Maintain situation awareness and identify threats to SFA missions.
• Provide impact assessments for incidents affecting SFA operations.

Skills

Strong interpersonal communication

Analytical thinking

Ability to work independently

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

None

Job description

What the role is

You will be part of the team to formulate, develop and review adaptive and responsive contingency plans and SOPs for peacetime crisis and emergencies. To ensure preparedness, you will be part of the team to plan, design and execute training plans to maintain high operational readiness through the conduct of training and exercises.

Upon activation, you will work within SFA and with Whole of Government (WoG) ministries/agencies to actively assess implications of situations, plan and manage smooth execution of the contingency plans for Peacetime Crisis and emergencies.

The officer will report to Deputy Director (Contingency Management & Emergency Preparedness) of SFA.

What you will be working on

• To initiate, formulate, develop, and implement scenario-specific contingency plans for SFA to draw from to respond with agility to unfolding incidents affecting SFA operations or discharge of SFA mission during peacetime contingencies, and emergencies.
• To engage internal and external stakeholders for the purpose of monitoring and ensuring currency of operation plans in managing peacetime crisis and emergencies.
• To conduct periodic reviews on developed plans to ensure continued fitness-for-purpose.
• To coordinate responses and management during peacetime crisis and emergencies across SFA and WoG ministries/agencies.
• To maintain situation awareness and identify threats that may impact or is detrimental to SFA mission.
• To provide timely and comprehensive impact assessments for incidents on SFA operations and discharge of SFA's mission
• To plan, design and execute SFA-level ops training management plans and exercises .
• To support crisis decision making through anchoring of quarterly decision making platforms chaired by CE.

What we are looking for

• Ability to manage complex issues and interrelated factors, to cope with "uncertainties" and "grey" areas in information management and analysis.
• Able to perform independently under time-constraint, in a fast-paced environment and comfortable to work as part of a team.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with relevant experience in engaging relevant stakeholders within and outside organisation.
• Possess strong analytical skills with an eye for details and ability to comprehend the big picture.
• Strong command of written and spoken English; able to speak and present to a large audience.
• A degree or equivalent relevant certification with preferably 2 years of relevant experience in contingency planning and crisis management.

Work Location: JEM, 52 Jurong Gateway Road (S)608550