Ministry Of Social and Family Development (MSF)–Singapore
3 minutes ago, from Careers Gov
The mission of Ministry of Social and Family Development is to nurture resilient individuals, strong families and a caring society.
At MSF, we are professionals with passion for people. We develop the “heartware” for Singapore through our policies, community infrastructure, programmes and services.
Through these efforts, we hope to nurture resilient individuals and families, and play a part in helping our citizens achieve their hopes and aspirations for themselves and their families.
In this role, you will drive manpower development through policy analysis, formulation, and planning for the social service sector to ensure a competent and future-ready workforce, especially for key professions.
What you will be working on
Key Responsibilities
• Conduct deep-dive analyses and identify gaps and weaknesses in sector manpower with regard to skills, training needs, progression pathways and profession-specific issues.
• Drive and coordinate tripartite discussions between government, academia and industry to ensure that manpower development programmes and initiatives keep pace with the needs of social service agencies.
• Conceptualise and formulate comprehensive jobs and skills strategies.
• Develop/review policies on support for professional and leadership development.
• Tertiary education in a related discipline, with interest in the social sector.
• Good understanding of Singapore’s social service sector/ landscape would be an advantage.
• Creative, analytical, resourceful and highly motivated.
• Strong systems-thinking and policy development skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills; comfortable working with people of all levels and able to build good collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Effective team player with good team and project management skills
• Ability to translate policy considerations into implementation, balancing strategic policy objectives with practical ground realities.
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