Manager/Senior Manager, Learning

A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A*STAR's Learning & Organization Development Division invites a Manager/Senior Manager to lead the Learning team, shaping development strategy and delivering impactful programs for staff at all levels.

You will design initiatives, collaborate with external partners, evaluate outcomes, manage budgets, and champion continuous improvement, while guiding management and staff through L&D plans.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of relevant learning and development experience.
• Passion to help individuals, teams and organisations to be more effective through L&OD.
• Experience with learning technologies and overall capability-building for future-ready skills.
• Established track record in implementing learning and development initiatives and projects.
• Excellent written and communication skills.
• Strong analytical, stakeholder engagement and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Identifying learning and development needs and priorities, and drawing up the appropriate intervention strategy, plan and activities to address them.
• Designing and developing learning and development initiatives and solutions to enable the personal, professional and career development of staff, which also include producing related contents and materials.
• Working with external partners, vendors and providers to develop broad-based and specialized learning and development solutions.
• Conducting evaluation on the effectiveness of the learning and development solutions applied.
• Planning budget required to carry out learning and development related activities at all levels in the organization, and working within budget to ensure cost-effectiveness.
• Educating management and staff on learning and development intentions and plans, and engage them on a regular basis to obtain feedback and ideas for improvement.
• Facilitating some of the learning and development activities and interventions yourself, subject matter expertise and practice experience permitting.

Skills

Learning & development

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Written & verbal communication

Facilitation

Job description

The L&OD Division comprises of three functional teams in the domain of Organisation Development, Leadership Development and Learning.

As a Manager/Senior Manager of the Learning team, your day-to-day responsibilities would include:

• Identifying learning and development needs and priorities, and drawing up the appropriate intervention strategy, plan and activities to address them.


• Designing and developing learning and development initiatives and solutions to enable the personal, professional and career development of staff, which also include producing related contents and materials.


• Working with external partners, vendors and providers to develop broad-based and specialized learning and development solutions.


• Conducting evaluation on the effectiveness of the learning and development solutions applied.


• Planning budget required to carry out learning and development related activities at all levels in the organization, and working within budget to ensure cost-effectiveness.


• Educating management and staff on learning and development intentions and plans, and engage them on a regular basis to obtain feedback and ideas for improvement.


• Facilitating some of the learning and development activities and interventions yourself, subject matter expertise and practice experience permitting.

Requirements

• At least 3 - 5 years of relevant learning and development experience.


• Passion to help individuals, teams and organisations to be more effective through L&OD.


• Experience with learning technologies and overall capability-building for future-ready skills.


• Established track record in implementing learning and development initiatives and projects


• Excellent written and communication skills.


• Strong analytical, stakeholder engagement and interpersonal skills.

All new hires are appointed on a 3-year renewable contract in the first instance.