Manager/Senior Manager (SPD)

Skills and Workforce Development Agency; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Skills and Workforce Development Agency in Singapore invites an experienced OD professional to drive strategic planning and organisation development across the division. You will translate strategy into change initiatives, build capability, and partner with HR and communications to ensure coherent execution.

The role focuses on strengthening organisational effectiveness, culture, and readiness for change within a dynamic public service environment, requiring strong analytical and stakeholder

Qualifications

• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking to understand underlying issues.
• Good project management and problem-solving abilities.
• Solid understanding of organisation development, change management, and culture-building concepts.
• Familiarity with public governance principles.
• Experience with staff engagement, pulse surveys, and data insights is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support strategic planning to anchor OD efforts to SWDA's long-term direction.
• Ensure OD interventions align with SWDA's mission and operating context.
• Translate priorities into coordinated OD plans, change initiatives and capability-building.
• Drive organisation development to strengthen effectiveness, culture and ways of working.
• Diagnose issues using data and stakeholder insights; propose practical interventions.
• Design and implement OD interventions including organisation design, culture-building and change management.
• Develop frameworks and tools to strengthen alignment and readiness for change.
• Collaborate with Strategic Comms and HR to communicate priorities.

Skills

Excellent writing & communication

Analytical & critical thinking

Project management

Organisation development concepts

Public governance understanding

Staff engagement & data insights

Job description

Roles & Responsibilities

You will play a key role in the Strategic Planning Division as an individual contributor, supporting the development of SWDA's strategic direction, policy work and driving organisational development efforts that strengthen SWDA's organisational effectiveness, culture, operating model and readiness for change. This includes working across SWDA to translate strategy into organisation-wide change efforts, strengthen alignment across divisions, and build organisational capacity for the future. Your responsibilities may include the following:

• Support strategic planning work to ensure OD efforts are anchored on SWDA's long-term direction and priorities
• Ensure OD interventions are aligned to SWDA's mission, priorities and operating context
• Work with divisions to translate strategic priorities into coordinated OD plans, change initiatives and capability-building efforts
• Drive organisation development initiatives to strengthen SWDA's effectiveness, culture and ways of working
• Diagnose organisational issues using data, staff feedback and stakeholder insights, and recommend practical interventions to address root causes
• Design and implement OD interventions that support SWDA's transformation, including organisation design, culture-building, staff engagement and change management
• Develop frameworks, tools and engagement platforms and collaborate with relevant divisions to strengthen organisational alignment, collaboration and readiness for change
• Partner relevant divisions, including Strategic Comms and HR, to support clear, coherent communication and engagement around strategic and organisational change priorities
• Build OD capability and sustain organisation-wide change
  • Work with divisions to embed new ways of working, clarify roles and interfaces, and strengthen collaboration across SWDA
  • Partner HR, Corporate Planning and other divisions on Strategic Workforce Planning projects, build OD practices, change management capability and staff engagement channels
  • Enhance organisational capacity to respond to internal and external challenges through planning, coordination and capability-building efforts
  • Track progress, surface organisational risks and issues, and support leaders and change champions in sustaining implementation

Knowledge/Skills

• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, and able to understand issues beyond the surface
• Good project management and problem-solving skills
• Good understanding of organisation development, change management, organisation design and/or culture-building concepts
• Have a good understanding of public governance and its principles
• Familiarity with staff engagement, pulse surveys, data analysis and insights generation is preferred

Aptitudes/Abilities

• Strong interpersonal skills and able to engage external and internal stakeholders
• Perceptive and able to problem-solve and work independently
• Resourceful and pro-active in managing work assignments
• Comfortable to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Organised, meticulous and detail oriented with an inquisitive mind that seeks to understand beyond the surface
• Be committed to the ethos of public service

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.