Manager/ Senior Manager - NDCT Associate Project Manager, BDH

A*STAR RESEARCH ENTITIES; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A*STAR RESEARCH ENTITIES' Biomedical Data Hub invites an experienced NDCT Associate Project Manager to translate clinical and research needs into data curation specifications. You will coordinate cross-institutional teams, improve processes, and support day-to-day operations in a data-driven environment.

You will work with clinicians, researchers, data owners, and technical colleagues to ensure data quality, provenance, and AI-readiness, including genomics and omics datasets.

Qualifications

• Requires degree in life sciences/biomedical field and experience with medical/healthcare data
• Strong ability to read, interpret, and translate clinical and biomedical data into actionable requirements
• Excellent written and spoken English communication across clinical, research, and technical audiences
• Detail-oriented, process-driven with strong organisational skills
• Basic financial literacy including benefit/cost analysis

Responsibilities

• Coordinate cross-institutional data curation projects involving clinical, genomics, and biomedical data
• Engage clinicians, researchers and data owners to understand data provenance and intended use
• Translate requirements into actionable guidance for data curators and technical teams
• Support curation of structured and unstructured clinical data and omics datasets
• Scope data curation projects and plan required resources and timelines
• Evaluate new technologies and advocate adoption where appropriate (e.g., AI data curation)
• Develop strategies for data curation, standardisation, cleanup and performance monitoring
• Establish SOPs, KPIs and measurements for data quality and productivity
• Identify recurring data quality issues and propose practical resolutions
• Collaborate with data stewards to meet research objectives
• Keep pace with evolving data standards and best practices

Skills

Communication skills

Detail-oriented

Organisational skills

Financial literacy

Reading medical terminology

Education

Bachelor's or higher in Life Sciences / Biomedical Engineering / Bioinformatics / Health Informatics / Medicine

Advanced degree in biomedical/health discipline (MS/PhD) or equivalent experience

Tools

R

Python

PMP certification

Job description

Manager/Senior Manager - NDCT Associate Project Manager

The Biomedical Data Hub (BDH) curates and maintains strategic deidentified health data cohorts and supports researchers and innovators with expertise in bioinformatics and AI. Its mission is to act as a trusted research node that unlocks the value of digital health data to support cutting edge science and digital health solutions that will benefit Singapore and Singaporeans. BDH is a national platform hosted by the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR) in partnership with Ministry of Health (MOH) Singapore and is funded by Singapore's National Research Foundation (NRF).

The purpose of the National Data Curation Team (NDCT) is to lead and coordinate cross-institutional teams to support data curation and standardisation projects, including on-boarding data to MOH TRUST and Biomedical Data Hub, improving data quality, interoperability, and AI readiness through activities such as data cleaning, transformation, and standards compliance. NDCT also establishes and facilitates domain-specific data working groups to identify and adopt appropriate data standards for emerging data types, resolving curation issues and maximising data reuse following fair data principles.

As a NDCT Project Manager you will play a critical translation role between clinicians, researchers, data owners, and technical teams. This role requires strong understanding of medical and research data, including human genomics and clinical data, so that requirements from healthcare and research stakeholders can be accurately translated into technical and curation specifications. You will coordinate project teams, develop and improve processes, define and implement measurement systems, organise meetings and events (including training) and support day-to-day operations. As a data curation practitioner yourself, you may be called upon to support curation efforts hands-on or propose resolutions to common issues. This role is not a general project management position. It is intended for candidates who are comfortable reading, discussing and reasoning about medical and biomedical data, and who can confidently engage with clinicians and biomedical researchers. Experience limited to non-human, synthetic or simulated datasets is not sufficient for this role.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate cross-institutional data curation projects involving clinical, genomics, and biomedical research data
• Engage directly with clinicians, clinical researchers, and healthcare and research data owners to understand provenance clinical meaning, limitations and intended use of data
• Translate clinical and research requirements into actionable guidance for data curators and technical teams
• Support curation of biomedical and clinical data, including structured and unstructured clinical data and omics datasets
• Scope and size data curation and clean-up projects using human curators and automated tools
• Set up evaluations of new technologies and advocate for their adoption (e.g. AI data curation) as appropriate, develop tools as a community resource
• Develop and implement strategies for data curation, standardisation, clean-up and performance monitoring of teams and technology
• Establish and improve operational processes, SOPs, KPIs and measurements for data curation quality and productivity
• Identify recurring data quality or interpretation issues arising from real-world workflows and propose practical resolutions
• Work with data stewards and other stakeholders to ensure research objectives are met
• Keep pace with evolving data standards and curation best practices for implementation within NDCT team and larger ecosystem

Requirements

• Degree in Life Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Bioinformatics, Health Informatics, Medicine or related field
• Demonstrated experience working with clinical or healthcare data derived from human subjects, including direct engagement with clinicians, healthcare professionals, healthcare institutions or healthcare data owners
• Ability to read, interpret and understand medical terminology, clinical concepts, and biomedical research data (e.g. diagnoses, procedures, laboratory results, clinical outcomes)
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills (English) with ability to bridge clinical, research, and technical audiences
• Detail-oriented and process-driven, with strong organisational skills
• Basic financial and accounting literacy, including the ability to conduct benefit/cost analysis

Preferred

• Advanced degree (MS, PhD or equivalent) or BSc with relevant work experience in a biomedical or health-related discipline
• Experience working with healthcare data (e.g. medical records, clinical registries or hospital-derived datasets)
• Working knowledge of bioinformatics or data analysis tools (e.g. R, Python)
• PMP certification

The above eligibility criteria are not exhaustive. A*STAR may include additional selection criteria based on its prevailing recruitment policies. These