Senior Associate/Associate (Social Programmes)

Ministry of Finance; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Ministry of Finance is recruiting an MOF Social Programmes Officer to help shape policy and allocate resources across major social sector initiatives in Singapore.

You will oversee budgets and staffing for agencies under your purview, spanning national subsidies, governance frameworks, and funding models, with opportunities to engage senior management and inter-agency negotiations for strategic policy outcomes.

Qualifications

• Exposure to senior management discussions and inter-agency negotiations.

Responsibilities

• Manage budget and manpower requirements across agencies under your purview.
• Shape policies and optimise resources for whole-of-government outcomes across social ministries.
• Drive synergies and advise on policy risks and trade-offs.

Job description

What the role is:

As an MOF Social Programmes Officer, you will help shape policies and resource allocation across key social sector initiatives. This role offers you a unique opportunity to advance leading policy ideas, drive synergies, and optimise resources to achieve whole-of-government strategic outcomes across social ministries, such as MOH, MSF, MOE, and MOM.

What you will be working on:

You will be responsible for managing the budget and manpower requirements of the agencies under your purview, spanning a diverse range of issues such as national subsidies and grants, major infrastructure projects, governance frameworks, and funding and operating models of key services.

What we are looking for:

Overall, this role provides you a rare vignette to look at the social sector as a whole, with regular exposure to senior management discussions, inter-agency negotiations, and strategic policy issues with significant national impact, including Budget. These perspectives will put you in good stead to advise agencies on key policy risks and trade-offs, the broader implications of their proposals, as well as best practices from other parts of Government.

About Ministry of Finance

The Ministry of Finance (MOF) is responsible for managing Singapore’s fiscal policies and the structure of its economy. We work to maintain international standards and best practices in areas such as company law, accounting standards, and corporate governance principles. We aim to advance the well-being and development of Singapore by:

• achieving a balanced budget through prudent and sustainable fiscal policies;
• ensuring the prudent investment of the government's reserves and other public funds;
• setting out policies for government procurement, customs regulation, accounting standards and business regulation;
• fostering a regulatory environment conducive to business and enterprise;
• ensuring that businesses operating within Singapore's jurisdiction are compatible with international standards and practices, in areas such as company law, accounting standards and corporate governance principles.