Assistant Manager/Manager/Senior Manager (Sector Strategy and Planning), FCD/EN

Ministry Of Social And Family Development; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Ministry Of Social And Family Development in Singapore seeks a policy analytics professional to craft data-driven disability sector policies and master plan recommendations. You will perform policy analysis, stakeholder engagement, and data analytics to support programme design and evaluation.

The role covers strategic planning, data processing, and presenting insights to management, with collaboration across agencies and international profiling to advance inclusive social policy.

Qualifications

• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills foundational to policy formulation.
• Comfortable with looking at issues through a strategic and operational lens.
• Highly motivated and able to effectively work in a team in a fast-paced and challenging environment.
• People-centric and able to build consensus with multiple stakeholders.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Background in data science, business analytics, economics, statistics, or related fields is preferred.
• Experience with data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI) and programming languages (R, Python) is an added advantage.

Responsibilities

• Develop medium to long-term strategic plans to enhance support for persons with disabilities.
• Data analysis, analytics and research.
• Engage other programme owners to understand their use case and analysis requirements.
• Perform data acquisition, processing and analysis to generate insights.
• Develop assessment and recommendations and present findings to management.
• Work on research projects to advance thinking of relevant social policies.
• Support projects to enhance accessibility and build an inclusive society.
• Profile Singapore’s efforts through international relations.
• Work closely with other agencies and stakeholders to oversee implementation.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Strategic thinking

Team player

Communication skills

Data science background

Data visualization

R/Python programming

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

What the role is:

The Enabling (EN) Division develops policies and programmes in the disability sector to support persons with disabilities across a wide range of areas, such as training, employment, care services, and accessibility. We also work with stakeholders across the public, people and private sectors to co-create and co-implement the recommendations of the Enabling Master Plan which guides Singapore towards becoming a more caring and inclusive society.

We are looking for an individual who is a strong conceptual and analytical thinker and is interested in developing policies for the disability sector. The role spans policy analysis, data analysis, policy and scheme design and reviews, stakeholder engagement, public communications, and will provide exposure and build experience in different stages of the policy formulation cycle.

What you will be working on:

• Develop medium to long term strategic plans to enhance support for persons with disabilities as profile and needs change.
• Data analysis, analytics and research.
• Engage other programme owners to understand their use case and analysis/analytics requirements.
• Perform data acquisition, processing and analysis to generate insights.
• Develop assessment and recommendations and present findings to management and colleagues.
• Work on research projects to advance thinking of relevant social policies to support the persons with disabilities.
• Support the projects to enhance accessibility for persons with disabilities and build an inclusive society.
• Profile Singapore’s efforts through international relations.
• Work closely with other agencies and key stakeholders to oversee implementation.

What we are looking for:

• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills which are foundational to policy formulation.
• Comfortable with looking at issues through a strategic and operational lens.
• Highly motivated and able to effectively work in a team in a fast-paced and challenging environment.
• People-centric and able to build consensus with multiple stakeholders.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Background in data science, business analytics, economics, statistics, or related fields is preferred.
• Relevant experience with data visualisation tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI), programmming languages (e.g. R, Python), and analytics projects will be an added advantage.You will be notified whether you have been shortlisted within 4 weeks from the closing date of this job posting.

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.