[What the role is]

[What you will be working on]

You will play a key role in supporting the jobs and skills pillar for the sector(s) under your purview. This includes:

Strategic Manpower Planning

• Identify and assess key industry, manpower challenges and skills needs

• Manage strategic partners and engage companies to diagnose gaps and identify opportunities

• Recommend the design of appropriate strategic human capital solutions based on industry or companies’ business and manpower needs

Stakeholder Engagement and Management

• Establish and maintain effective relationships with strategic partners and stakeholders

• Collaborate with industry stakeholders including government agencies, associations, tripartite partners, programme partners to develop and implement relevant manpower interventions to address industry manpower issues

• Consult with employers to promote adoption of WSG programmes and progressive human resource practices to address their manpower needs

Project Management

• Plan and review budget requirements and ensure compliance to policies and processes

• Organise or support outreach and marketing events such as career events and industry engagements

• Track programmes’ progress and analyse industry related information to evaluate and make recommendations for management decision making

[What we are looking for]

Requirements

• Relevant work experience in industry engagement, account/ project management and/or consultancy roles

• Salary will commensurate with experience

Knowledge/Skills

• Good understanding of the Precision Engineering sub-sectors’ background, trends, manpower skills needs and business value chain

• Good understanding of various government initiatives in relation to manpower interventions in the relevant industries would be advantageous

• Strong written and spoken communication skills

• Strong persuasive and negotiation skills

• Adept in stakeholder engagement and relationship building

• Ability to synthesise opinions and data for decision making and programme monitoring

• Consulting skills would be an added advantage

Aptitudes/Abilities & Other Characteristics

• Passionate, dedicated and driven individual

• Resilient and agile to problem-solve and respond in a dynamic and fast-paced environment

• Ability to multi-task and work with converging timelines

• Confident and comfortable with public-speaking

• Ability to work independently and in teams

• Comfortable with data compilation and analysis

• Possess an entrepreneurial spirit

• Innovative and comfortable in embracing digital and technological solutions

Successful candidates will be offered a contract in the first instance and may be considered for an extension or be placed on a permanent tenure.

Candidates are encouraged to sign up for a Careers & Skills Passport (CSP) account and include your CSP public profile in your resume.  Please check out www.myskillsfuture.gov.sg for details on the CSP