Chief Strategic Planner

Job Title: Chief Strategic Planner

In this exciting role, you will play a key part in driving the development and implementation of the Government's strategic priorities.

As a member of the Urban Liveability & Community team, you can expect to learn about and contribute to the development of strategies and policies in cross-cutting areas such as the nexus between infrastructure and environment (I&E) and the economic, social and technology domains. You may also have opportunities for collaboration with different teams in PMO-SG.

You will be expected to facilitate and lead discussions in inter-agency settings to push the bounds of ambition, strengthen WOG alignment and ensure translation of strategies into actions and outcomes. You will need to proactively engage stakeholders across the public service to diagnose and address systemic gaps in the I&E domain and/or how it relates to other domains, advocate for I&E considerations to be better considered in upstream strategy selection across domains, and create or update I&E-related processes and policies, so as to achieve key National outcomes.

In the course of your work, you will get to work with, and learn first-hand from, political officeholders, senior management members from PMO-SG and other agencies, as well as a wide range of internal government agency stakeholders. The breadth of exposure to strategic issues at the WOG and sectoral levels, space to engage and grow professional networks across the Public Service, as well as opportunity to pick up policy analysis, facilitation and systems design & development skills will be especially valuable to officers who are considering longer-term careers in the Public Service and show potential to take on future public sector leadership roles.

• Facilitate and lead discussions in inter-agency settings to drive strategy development and implementation
• Engage stakeholders across the public service to diagnose and address systemic gaps in the I&E domain
• Advocate for I&E considerations to be better considered in upstream strategy selection across domains
• Create or update I&E-related processes and policies to achieve key National outcomes

We are looking for individuals with at least 5 years of experience, preferably with some exposure in I&E areas of work. Public sector experience in a strategy or policy analysis role would be an advantage. Strong critical thinking and synthesis skills, intellectual curiosity and a sense of imagination and creativity are essential. Excellent writing and verbal communication skills, excellent interpersonal skills and confident in engaging with a wide range of stakeholders, with strong influencing skills to work across organisational and hierarchical boundaries are required.

A team player prepared to take on different team roles for different projects to achieve team objectives is essential. Comfortable in handling open-ended, qualitative research on long-term issues and working with agencies to articulate their impact on public policy and governance. Experience in working on data analytics projects would be an advantage.

The Strategy Group in the Prime Minister's Office drives Whole-of-Government strategic planning, and partners government agencies on policy development. It identifies key priorities and emerging issues over the medium to long term, such as population and climate change; it influences strategic resource allocation; and catalyses new functions and capabilities in order to deliver policies that are in the long-term interest of Singapore.