Assistant Director, Planning, Strategy and Data Analysis

4 weeks ago

Singapore National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) Full time
Assistant Director, Planning, Strategy and Data Analysis

Are you passionate about enhancing workers' employment and employability? Can you connect workers with employers through job-matching, career guidance, and skills upgrading? Ready to collaborate on recruitment, training, and job redesign to support nationwide skills development?

If your answers are "yes", we want you to join us and make a significant impact on the employment and employability landscape today

We are seeking a highly effective Assistant Director to join our Planning, Strategy and Data Analysis Team in our department dedicated to employment and employability

In this role, you will support NTUC's sub-department. You will contribute individually and assist your Deputy Director in managing and mentoring a small team. Your responsibilities will include facilitating discussions, developing measures and creating strategies to meet the organisation's needs and perform corporate reporting. You should excel at communicating and engaging multiple stakeholders, including government agencies, conducting evidence-based studies and analysis, and moving strategies into implementation.

Job Responsibilities

  • Negotiate, coordinate, and liaise with internal and external stakeholders, including the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and Workforce Singapore (WSG).
  • Assist your Deputy Director to conceptualise and conduct studies of industry groups, worker segments, overall employment and employability landscape, and/or ad hoc studies as requested, to identify trends, threats, and opportunities. Help edit, vet, and/or craft compelling stories and data-driven recommendations from findings or insights to be presented to various stakeholders.
  • Assist your Deputy Director to support senior management with new matters that arise by making sense of emerging issues and gaps that do not fit neatly into clear categories, as well as corporate and strategy matters, including monitoring and tracking KPIs; preparation for external meetings with government agencies; analysing developments that impact the organisation.
  • Supervise, organise, and support annual corporate planning sessions and seminars (and ad hoc brainstorming sessions) to conceptualise overall workplan and communicate corporate strategy, provide analysis and insights to support and guide management in decision-making.
  • Oversee, prepare, and present regular reports and topical presentations to senior management, including NTUC senior management.
  • Oversee, plan for, maintain, and track clean data to be used for data analysis.
  • Other duties as required to support organisation's goals.

Job Requirements

  • Good interpersonal and negotiation skills
  • Excellent analytical, writing, and communication skills
  • Project management, problem-solving, and leadership skills
  • Meticulous, self-driven, and able to multi-task
  • Experience in team leadership
  • At least 10 years' experience in planning/policy, consultancy, or strategy formulation and working with data

Designation and salary will commensurate with experience.

We will only contact shortlisted candidates.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Consulting, Strategy/Planning, and Writing/Editing

Industries

Non-profit Organizations and Staffing and Recruiting

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