Senior Manager/Manager, Smart Nation Strategy Office

Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI)· Smart Nation Strategy Office (SNSO)
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📍 Singapore, Singapore, SingaporeFull time

About this role

  • Drive Smart Nation Strategy, to ensure that Singapore and Singaporeans thrive in the digital age, harnessing opportunities and address challenges ahead
  • Identify and anticipate digital developments across a wide sweep of domains, such as changing social norms, rising digital divides, the impact of AI, etc.
  • Sensemake the implications of these developments on our Smart Nation 2.0 goals in the near to medium-term future
  • Develop insights and strategies to guide how Government might respond, shoring up Government’s Smart Nation-related strategy or policy moves
  • This includes diagnosing key ‘problems’ or gaps in Government’s strategy that require addressing, persuading stakeholders with sharp and timely insights, working with stakeholders to incubate new policy responses and solutions
  • Navigate a wide landscape of stakeholders for the above responsibilities, including building links with diverse networks of thought leaders, collaborating on pilot projects, etc.
  • Building sensing and policy incubation capabilities across the MDDI family, to strengthen Government’s abilities to anticipate and quickly adapt to fast-paced digital developments 
  • Both public policy or private sector experience welcome
  • The job deals with and addresses cross-disciplinary issues that intersect with the digital / tech and media / information domains, spanning a wide range of tools and levers such as futures thinking, scenario planning, and policymaking across regulations / industry development / public education and more. We are therefore recruiting for officers with experience/expertise in any of the following areas:
  • Social, tech or economic policy
  • Start-up/tech firm experience – product policy/trust and safety/government relations
  • Tech law
  • Tech/computer science – ability to build innovative tech tools to help the team derive richer insights
  • Management consultancy
  • Academia, especially in social sciences, behavioural science, and technology-related fields
  • Independent worker who is a hands-on problem-solver
  • Excellent critical thinking skills. Curiosity is key
  • Comfortable with complexity and quickly evolving environments
  • Team players with a stake in team vision and culture
  • Interest in emerging technologies and their implications for Singapore

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