Chief Operating Officer

2 weeks ago


Singapore Ministry of Defence Singapore Full time

Attorney-General's Chambers

Permanent/Contract

Closing on 30 Sep 2025

What the role is

Reporting to the Chief Executive, you will play a part in driving the strategic mission of the Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC), leading transformation and change to enable AGC to deliver legal services to Government. You will champion a client-centric culture, leading the delivery of quality work, nurturing of quality people, and ensuring that AGC is supported by quality systems and processes.
Specifically, you will be leading the Corporate Services Division (CSD) and play a pivotal role in overseeing and providing strategic direction for corporate affairs for the whole of AGC, including budget and finance, risk management, procurement, strategy and transformation, human resources, organisational development, communications, office management, security, and information technology, in order to deliver on its mission to be a trusted partner by placing all AGC officers at the heart of our services.

What you will be working on

Responsibilities:
- Working with senior management to set and implement effective corporate and strategic goals and directions for AGC
- Directing the delivery of corporate services to the whole of AGC
- Ensuring good corporate governance and accountability
Building organisational capability through institution and implementation of an effective human resources management and development framework
- Achieving organisational excellence and ensuring client centricity through performance measurement and development
- Instituting sound financial policies and effective budget planning and utilisation across AGC
- Instituting and implementing business process reviews and re-engineering to achieve organisational excellence and the systematic collation of data and performance indicators
- Ensuring effective corporate communications with the media, internal and external stakeholders
- Leading the formulation and implementation of information technology policies and use of information technology to drive and support organisational excellence

What we are looking for

Requirements:
- At least 15 years of experience in corporate management and administration, including at least 5 years in a senior management role
- A proven track record of managing a department (preferably in the delivery of corporate services) and change management
- Good political acumen
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make sound judgements and quick decisions based on sound reasoning across wide-ranging issues
- Strong communication and networking skills to maintain relationships with stakeholders
- Good people management and interpersonal skills to influence people and outcomes positively
- High self-motivation and effective multi-tasking abilities
Our Commitment to You:
The AGC offers a salary commensurate with your experience and qualifications, Annual Variable bonuses, performance
bonuses and annual increments based on merit. We invest in our officers and support their career aspirations so that they
can reach their fullest potential. We also place great importance on our officers' physical and mental well-being through work-life harmony programmes.
Successful candidates will be appointed on a contract basis in the first instance.
All applicants will be notified on whether they are shortlisted or not within 4 weeks of the closing date of this job posting.
Should you encounter difficulty in ing for this role, please email us directly at before the
closing date of this job posting. Kindly attach your resume and indicate this position you are keen on in the email subject.

About Attorney-General's Chambers

The Attorney-General's Chambers plays a pivotal role in enhancing the rule of law and strengthening the efficiency and integrity of Singapore's legal system. It also assists the Judiciary in the fair and impartial administration of justice in Singapore in carrying out its prosecutorial functions.
As the Government's legal adviser in all aspects of public administration law, criminal law, international law and legislation, AGC is able to provide a vast array of legal expertise for the good governance of Singapore.
We invite interested applicants who meet our requirements to submit your applications online. The successful applicant can look forward to a greatly satisfying career in a prestigious and respected Organ of State: the Attorney-General's Chambers.

About your application process

This job is closing on 30 Sep 2025.

If you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the job ad closing date, we seek your understanding that it is likely that we are not moving forward with your application for this role. We thank you for your interest and would like to assure you that this does not affect your other job applications with the Public Service. We encourage you to explore and for other roles within Attorney-General's Chambers or the wider Public Service.



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