Assistant Director

1 week ago

Novena, Singapore CDA Communicable Diseases Agency Full time

[What the role is]

This role is focused on strengthening our public health laboratory network's preparedness and response capabilities. The role serves as the cornerstone for ensuring our key public health laboratories and high-containment facilities maintain optimal readiness and can effectively respond to public health emergencies.

[What you will be working on]

**Laboratory Capacity Assessment and Planning**
- Conduct comprehensive readiness assessments of key public health laboratories, evaluating their capabilities, infrastructure, and resource requirements whilst developing improvement strategies
- Lead preparedness and response planning efforts, including the development and maintenance of laboratory emergency response plans and standard operating procedures

**Partnership and Coordination**
- Identify and maintain relationships with standby laboratory partners, regularly reviewing their operational status and capabilities to ensure rapid mobilisation during emergencies
- Coordinate specialised training programmes for public health laboratory staff, focusing on new methodologies or techniques for improved pathogen detection

**Emergency Preparedness**
- Develop and implement contingency plans for various emergency scenarios, including participation in simulation exercises and drills
- Create forward surge capacity plans, ensuring laboratories can scale operations during emergencies whilst maintaining quality standards

**Monitoring and Evaluation**
- Lead intra-action review (IAR) or after-action reviews (AAR) and improvement assessments following laboratory responses to public health events
- Develop and implement monitoring frameworks to track laboratory performance and readiness levels

**Strategic Development**
- Conduct horizon scanning to identify emerging technologies, research developments, and global initiatives that could enhance laboratory capabilities
- Establish and maintain relationships with key public health laboratories, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing

**Operational Support**
- Provide technical and operational support during surge periods, ensuring laboratories maintain efficient operations under increased demand

Coordinate resource allocation and deployment during emergency responses

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