What The Role Is
You will play a key role in supporting the jobs and skills pillar for the sector(s) under your purview. This includes:
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
Requirements
What we are looking for
- 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