Assistant Manager/Manager (Manpower Planning), ECDA/SP

Ministry Of Social And Family Development; Singapore; On-site; SGD 54,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

The Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA) within MSF is seeking an analytical team member to join the Sector Planning Department and support the Manpower Planning function in Singapore. You will help drive manpower recruitment and retention initiatives across the EC sector, coordinating with preschool operators, training providers, and other government agencies.

Reporting to the Assistant Director of Manpower Planning, you will work on local and foreign manpower schemes, data analysis, and

Qualifications

• Strong analytical abilities and excellent written and verbal communication to present views clearly and persuasively.
• Systematic and attentive to details; able to work with diverse stakeholders across the public and private sector.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with tight timelines in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Drive manpower initiatives and schemes to ensure adequate manpower supply in the EC sector.
• Collaborate on cross-team projects to ensure robust manpower planning and policy perspectives.
• Engage stakeholders, analyse manpower issues/trends, and propose solutions for the EC sector.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Independent work

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

Job description

What the role is:

The Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA) serves as the regulatory and developmental authority for the early childhood (EC) sector in Singapore, overseeing key aspects of children’s development below the age of 7, across both childcare centres and kindergartens. ECDA is an autonomous agency jointly overseen by the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) and the Ministry of Education (MOE) and is hosted under MSF.The Sector Planning Department in ECDA oversees infrastructure as well as manpower planning in close collaboration with industry partners and other government agencies.

What you will be working on:

As a member of the Manpower Planning team within the Sector Planning Department, you will join a dynamic close-knit team to collaborate with stakeholders and drive manpower recruitment and retention initiatives across the early childhood sector. The key responsibilities for this role include:

• You will work on manpower initiatives and schemes to ensure adequate manpower supply of good quality. This could include operationalising local and foreign manpower schemes for the overall early childhood and early intervention sectors, as well as other specific manpower pipelines.


• You will have exposure to work on cross-team / cross-unit projects to ensure robust manpower planning and perspectives are in place.


• Through your work, you will gain exposure to strategic engagement of stakeholders, inter-agency coordination of policies / programmes, and impact / outcome evaluation of policies. You will work with a range of stakeholders, such as preschool operators, training providers, other Government agencies, to analyse manpower issues and trends, and propose solutions.

This is an individual contributor role reporting to Assistant Director (Manpower Planning).

What we are looking for:

• Strong analytical abilities, and excellent written and communication skills to present views clearly and persuasively


• Systematic and attentive to details


• Good team-player with well-rounded interpersonal skills to work across teams and with diverse stakeholders (public and private sector)


• Able to work independently in a fast-paced environment, and manage multiple projects with tight timelines


• Data analytical skills and/or good Microsoft Excel proficiency preferred


• Fresh graduates are welcome to apply

About Ministry Of Social And Family Development

Join Us at MSF for a Meaningful, People-Centric Career!At MSF, our mission is to nurture and build resilient individuals, strong families, and a caring society. We offer meaningful and impactful people-centric careers in the design and delivery of policies, services and programmes. We are an all-inclusive and family friendly workplace where career growth is prioritised through a comprehensive suite of development opportunities to help our officers succeed today as well as be future-ready. We do this through various formal and informal learning and development programmes for officers to build different competencies and gain diverse work experiences within MSF, the Public as well as the Social Service Sectors.