Senior Scientist, Food Safety Analytics & Biosurveillance

SINGAPORE FOOD AGENCY (SFA); Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Singapore Food Agency is seeking a Scientist/Senior Scientist (Monitoring & Evaluation) to join the National Centre for Food Science. You will implement monitoring programmes, analyze data, visualize results, and translate findings into policy recommendations and publications.

The role requires a degree with postgraduate qualifications (or 3+ years in related fields) and experience with analytics tools (SPSS, Power BI, Tableau).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with postgraduate degree preferred in public health, life science, veterinary science or quantitative disciplines.
• OR minimum of 3 years of working experience in a related field.
• Basic experience in data analytics and visualization software.

Responsibilities

• Implement food safety monitoring and biosurveillance programmes to monitor hazards in the food chain.
• Conduct data analysis, visualization, statistics, modelling, and bioinformatics for sensemaking.
• Communicate findings through stakeholder engagement, presentations, publications and reports.
• Contribute to scientific merit through translation of findings into presentations and publications.
• Participate in scientific R&D projects and collaborate with internal and external partners.
• Perform administrative tasks including procurement, project proposals, and documentation.
• Other duties including field sampling as required.

Skills

Data analysis

Data visualization

Python

R

SPSS

Power BI

Tableau

Education

Bachelor’s degree with postgraduate preferred

Minimum 3 years working experience in related field

Tools

SPSS

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Singapore Food Agency is seeking a Scientist/Senior Scientist (Monitoring & Evaluation) to join the National Centre for Food Science. You will implement monitoring programmes, analyze data, visualize results, and translate findings into policy recommendations and publications.

The role requires a degree with postgraduate qualifications (or 3+ years in related fields) and experience with analytics tools (SPSS, Power BI, Tableau).