Strategic Policy Manager

[What the role is]

[What you will be working on]

As a Strategic Policy Manager, you will be part of a multi-disciplinary team of planners, architect and policy officers working to pre-empt emerging challenges and better position HDB for the future. Your work will span the full policy development cycle, from early-stage research to the conceptualisation of new policy directions and programme designs. Specifically, you can expect to:

• Study emerging gaps in Singapore's housing landscape and develop policy initiatives and responses to address them
• Conduct research and literature reviews on priority issues and key challenges affecting HDB, such as our rapidly ageing demography, etc
• Conceptualise broad policies to address priority issues, and support the development of initial pilots for implementation
• Collaborate with HDB divisions, government agencies, and external stakeholders to review existing policies and conceptualise new ones
• Contribute to discussion papers, thinkpieces and policy briefs for Senior Management

[What we are looking for]

• At least two to three years of policy-related work experience, with a keen interest in substantive, forward-looking issues relating to Singapore’s longer-term urban landscape and public housing environment
• A strategic mindset and strong critical thinking skills, with the ability to synthesise information spanning planning, policy, and social dimensions into clear, coherent, and actionable insights
• Comfortable navigating complexity and ambiguity, and able to structure open-ended problems into well-grounded recommendations
• Ability to think beyond conventional approaches and present alternative perspectives
• Excellent communication, analytical and writing skills. You must be able to work effectively in a team, build good rapport with counterparts across different levels and coordinate well across multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to translate data insights into policy implications; experience with data analytics would be advantageous.

Successful candidates will be offered a 1+1 year contract at the first instance.