Manager/Senior Manager (CLC)

Skills and Workforce Development Agency; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Skills and Workforce Development Agency (Singapore) seeks a dynamic leader to plan and establish the Career Longevity Centre (CLC) at its initial stage, with deployment planned for mid-2027. You will work with the ED and AD, engaging diverse stakeholders to co-develop initiatives, resources, and research on career longevity.

You will collaborate with SWDA, MOM, tripartite partners, industry players and solution providers to design missions, KPIs and priority areas, while promoting a national

Qualifications

• Ability to collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Ability to work well in a team and communicate effectively.
• Highly motivated, proactive and able to work in a fast-paced, multi-project environment.
• Business development mindset with the ability to identify and pursue new collaboration opportunities.
• Curiosity to understand issues deeply with tenacity to implement solutions.
• Strategic thinking while grounding plans in realistic constraints.

Responsibilities

• Plan and establish the Career Longevity Centre (CLC) setup, including advisory panel.
• Develop mission, vision, KPIs and priority focus areas for CLC.
• Identify archetypes and needs of individuals and employers to serve prioritised segments.
• Implement data collection mechanisms to generate insights and trends.
• Track corporate KPIs and programme deliverables.
• Develop strategic marketing plans and promote career longevity as a national agenda.
• Create and maintain a profile bank of individuals and employers with success stories.

Skills

Collaboration

Teamwork

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Motivation

Proactivity

Business development

Curiosity

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Job description

You will be part of a team planning for and setting up the Career Longevity Centre (CLC) at its initial stage, and eventually to be deployed to the CLC when it is launched in mid-2027 (tentative) under the Skills and Workforce Development Agency (SWDA). The CLC will be the first tripartite-led centre in Singapore that focuses on extending the career longevity of Singaporeans, in line with promoting a wider Career Health culture. The CLC will promote dedicated initiatives to help mature and senior workers plan and prepare for their later stage careers early, and equip employers with resources and capability development to redesign jobs and workplace practices to support career longevity of their workforce. In the longer term, the CLC will drive thought leadership and research to amplify career longevity on a national level. You will have the opportunity to engage individuals and employers to understand their needs to implement career longevity. You will need to work collaboratively with other SWDA departments, MOM, tripartite partners, industry players and solution or technology providers to co-develop initiatives and resources.

You will support the Executive Director (ED) and Assistant Director (AD) of the CLC.

Planning and Operations

• Establish the setup of CLC, including setting up a Tripartite Advisory Panel
• Develop CLC overall mission, vision and strategic plan, corresponding Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and priority focus areas
• Identify individual and employer archetypes, and their corresponding needs to serve prioritised archetypes
• Implement data collection mechanisms to generate insights and trends, and work with partners on research
• Track and monitor corporate KPIs and programmes deliverables

Communications and Marketing

• Develop strategic marketing plans for individuals and employers
• Promote career longevity as a national agenda and discourse, and profile resources provided to individuals and employers by CLC
• Utilise data and insights to curate targeted EDMs and nudges to enable prioritised individual and employer segments to plan for career longevity
• Develop individual and employers profile bank with success stories and use cases

Requirements:

• Ability to collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders
• Ability to work well in a team
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Highly motivated, proactive and able to work effectively in a fast-paced and multi-project environment
• Business development mindset with the ability to identify and pursue new collaboration opportunities
• Curiosity to understand an issue deeply, with tenacity and perseverance to find solutions to the challenges identified
• Strong ability to adopt a forward looking and strategic perspective of the big picture, yet sufficiently grounded to understand ground constraints to propose realistic and implementable solutions
• Prior experience in a similar area of work will be an advantage

Successful candidates will be offered a 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.