Senior Assistant Director/assistant Director

**What the role is**
- Centre For Liveable Cities’ (CLC) futures and cities-oriented knowledge work in the built environment focuses on the following policy-futures research domains:
1. The needs of future communities - what constitutes quality of life in a dense urban setting, and how these might be impacted by future live-work-play patterns, and changing social dynamics between different communities or segments of society
2. Environmental sustainability - decarbonisation and net-zero transitions, ecological planning, resource circularity, climate change adaptation or mitigation in cities
3. Urban resilience - Urban governance and systems, urban design, districts, infrastructure planning and development

**What you will be working on**
- For the role of Senior Assistant Director/Assistant Director (Science of Cities), you will help to drive CLC’s knowledge work grouped under the broad research theme of Science of Cities. The policy-futures projects under Science of Cities are focused on using evidence to understand how cities work, and hence, how cities will develop in future. Science of Cities includes these key enablers:

- Foresight: Identifying emerging trends and issues to inform strategic priorities for the infrastructure & environment (I&E) sector, and to stress-test strategies against changing operating environment.
- Indices: Analysing our urban performance against liveability indices and metrics to identify signals of future needs and challenges.

You will work with team supervisors and members to deliver various “Future of ” studies that incorporate horizon scanning, indices analyses and benchmarking, and translate these into implications for policy and planning. You may also work in teams to undertake cities benchmarking based on published indices and track specific indicator cluster relevant to policy development.
You may also work with team supervisors and members to help bridge Complexity Science knowledge and research from international and local experts with the work of government agencies. You will do this through developing Complexity Science for Urban Solutions R&D roadmaps for Singapore, curating Science of Cities journals, Science of Cities Symposium series, and workshops and capability development programmes. In your work, you will also synthesise information and analyse data from local and international sources, convene thought leadership sessions and in some instances, commission research to be done by universities and research institutes.
You may also be involved in publications, work closely with policymakers, planners, local and foreign experts, industry practitioners to drive policy discussions and develop CLC’s research interests. You will also be involved in work that helps to support and maintain CLC’s strategic partnerships with our knowledge or corporate partners.
You may expect to share the output from your policy-futures work at CLC’s capacity development programmes which train urban leaders from Singapore and other cities. You may also contribute to curating and participating in the biennial World Cities Summit and other platforms for knowledge sharing.

**What we are looking for**
- Possesses a future-oriented mindset and keen interest in the policies and plans that underpin and drive urban development in Singapore, and in other cities.
- Possesses an inquisitive mind with good adaptive and communication abilities, interpersonal skills, a sense of responsibility and drive for continuous self-development.
- Ability to organise and analyse data and research, present concise analysis findings, and communicate clear insights and recommendations for policies and planning in Singapore and other cities.
- Ability to work well independently and in a team setting.
- Strong experience in project management. i.e., ability to manage timelines and steer multi-stakeholder research projects to achieve set goals.
- At least 4 - 5 years of relevant experience as a policy researcher, policy maker or practitioner involved in one or more of the following domains, namely, Economics, Public Policy, Urban Planning, Development and Management, Computation and/or Geospatial Science, Sustainable Development, Urban Systems Design/Engineering, and Urban Data Analytics.
- Proficiency in Planning and Development, Public Policy Analysis, Statistics, Digital Visualisation, Computation, and/or Geospatial Science software, and Research Frameworks development and Data Analytics skillsets would be advantageous.