Project Officer, New Ventures

5 days ago

Singapore Economic Development Board Full time

**What the role is**
- About New Ventures
Companies globally are getting disrupted by technology and shifts in business models. There is an urgent need for them to be developing new revenue streams and new businesses. To address this, the EDB New Ventures team is fueling the drive towards corporate venture building and new venture creation here in Singapore.
In EDB New Ventures, we are spearheading novel ways of supporting companies in their corporate venturing journey. This includes embarking on joint venture building sprints alongside strategic corporate partners, co-investment with corporates to risk-share early-stage growth of their ventures and active portfolio value creation to scale each venture. To drive awareness and level up the ecosystem capabilities in corporate venturing, our team is also responsible for developing and executing new outreach models, programmes and community building efforts.

**What you will be working on**
- We are looking for a Project Officer to join the dynamic team. In this role, your key responsibilities will be to manage the team’s operational and administrative needs. This will include:

- Support senior members of the New Ventures team to conduct high value quantitative and qualitative research, and providing assessments;
- Support senior members of the New Ventures team in meetings with companies, founders and investors by preparing pre and post meeting materials;
- Monitoring submissions of required documents and review of such documents according to the limits and guidelines as governed by the investment document;
- Manage investment closing and ongoing management of these investments in respect to the operational controls and requirement;
- Coordinate logistics and schedules for external meetings/trips as well as internal and external events/activities;
- Managing processes to ensure timeliness and compliance with the New Ventures Division’s deliverables;
- Collating data, maintaining databases and proper documentation of files; and
- Work on ad-hoc projects as they arise.

**What we are looking for**
- To meet the challenges of this position, you must have/be:

- Trained in Business/Finance/Accounting/Economics preferred
- At least 2 years of relevant work experience
- Proficient with Microsoft Office & Excel and Internet-savvy
- Proactive/can-do approach and attitude. Thorough attention to detail and accuracy of delivery
- Adaptable, receptive to uncertainty and change
- A team player with good command of written and spoken English
- Singaporean

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