Manager/Senior Manager (Grant Transformation), ECDA/TFN

Ministry of Social and Family Development, Singapore (MSF); Singapore; On-site; SGD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency in Singapore is seeking a self-driven individual to join their Sector Funding Division. The role involves transforming grant processes for preschools by simplifying systems, facilitating automation, and ensuring compliance with administrative procedures. Candidates should possess relevant experience in business intelligence and project management, with strong analytical skills and the ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Relevant work experience preferably in Business Intelligence, Information Systems, ICT or related fields.
• Experience in project management for systems or application change.
• Experience in information or data management with skills in data handling.

Responsibilities

• Participate in grant administration system activities including requirements gathering and testing.
• Work with grant owners to harmonise computation rules for grants.
• Oversee the flow of information to facilitate automation of grant processing.

Skills

Business Intelligence

Information Systems

Project Management

Data Management

MS Excel

Analytics Software

Job description

Description of Division/Branch:

The Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA) is the regulatory and developmental agency for the early childhood sector in Singapore and oversees key aspects of children’s development below the age of seven across both kindergarten and childcare centres.

About the Role:

We are looking for a self-driven individual to be part of the Sector Funding Division (SF). The successful candidate will be involved in assisting ECDA to transform end-to-end grants process for grants to preschools/ organisations through:

a) Harmonising and simplifying systems that focus on functions of key grant sub-processes from pre-grant set-up, grant application, grant case management, grant computation, disbursement assessment and approval and payment to KPI reporting;

b) Achieving synergies across modular systems to digitalise / automate grant processing; and

c) Achieving agility and faster go-to-market timing through a modular systems approach.

Responsibilities:

As a member of the Sector Funding Branch, you will play a role in the following areas:

• Participate in activities such as requirements gathering, user acceptance testing, training and implementation for grant administration system
• Work with grant owners to harmonise and codify grant computation rules for grants to preschools/ organisations
• Harmonise grant processes for onboarding onto systems supporting each grant admin sub-processes
• Oversee the flow of information and linkages across systems to facilitate automation of grant processing

Competencies required:

• Relevant work experience preferably in Business Intelligence, Information Systems, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) or related fields
• Experience in project management for systems or application change.
• Comfortable in translating and connecting business needs with IT system or application specifications and development
• Experience in information or data management. Skills in data handling is an advantage e.g. experience in usage of data extraction tools, proficiency in MS Excel and analytics software
• Knowledge in grant administration will be added advantage

Required Skills:

• Proactive, dynamic and always looking to learn new things
• Strong analytical skills
• People-centric and able to build consensus with multiple stakeholders
• Resourceful