What the role is
The Enabling (EN) Division develops policies and programmes in the disability sector to support persons with disabilities across a wide range of areas, such as training, employment, care services, and accessibility. We also work with stakeholders across the public, people and private sectors to co-create and co-implement the recommendations of the Enabling Master Plan which guides Singapore towards becoming a more caring and inclusive society.
We are looking for an individual who is a strong conceptual and analytical thinker and is interested in developing policies for the disability sector. The role spans policy analysis, data analysis, policy and scheme design and reviews, stakeholder engagement, public communications, and will provide exposure and build experience in different stages of the policy formulation cycle.
What you will work on
As part of this team, you will have the opportunity to work on the following:
- Develop medium to long term strategic plans to enhance support for persons with disabilities as profile and needs change.
- Data analysis, analytics and research
- Engage other programme owners to understand their use case and analysis/analytics requirements.
- Perform data acquisition, processing and analysis to generate insights.
- Develop assessment and recommendations and present findings to management and colleagues.
- Work on research projects to advance thinking of relevant social policies to support the persons with disabilities.
- Support the projects to enhance accessibility for persons with disabilities and build an inclusive society.
- Profile Singapore’s efforts through international relations.
- Work closely with other agencies and key stakeholders to oversee implementation.
What we are looking for
- Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills which are foundational to policy formulation.
- Comfortable with looking at issues through a strategic and operational lens.
- Highly motivated and able to effectively work in a team in a fast-paced and challenging environment.
- People-centric and able to build consensus with multiple stakeholders.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Background in data science, business analytics, economics, statistics, or related fields is preferred.
- Relevant experience with data visualisation tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI), programmming languages (e.g. R, Python), and analytics projects will be an added advantage.