Join us at the Forefront of Shaping Healthier Lives
Overview
You will be a part of HPB’s School Health Outreach Division that is responsible for engaging key stakeholders such as parents, educational institutions to establish supportive health promoting environments and policies, implement programmes to ensure that children and youth in Singapore are in optimal health for holistic growth, learning and development.
Health areas of interest include nutrition, physical activity, mental wellness, tobacco control, management of screen use, sleep hygiene and communicable diseases prevention.
School Health Outreach Division is adopting agile approach to step up the use of technology to augment our outreach efforts. This is a new growth area of work that we have recently started to experiment. Besides operationalising these new initiatives to optimise health and well-being of children and youth, the staff (1 year contract) will play an instrumental role in translating the learnings from our innovations to transform the way we design our digital engagement for child and youth health promotion.
Scope
As a key member of Partnerships & Growth team, you will have to be comfortable to put on many hats as you will be part of a dynamic team where your primary areas of focus will include, but not limited to plan and operationalise the digitalisation plans and experiments in support of optimal health for young school going children. Your responsibilities will include providing project management and secretariat support to ensure that product development milestones are delivered as per timeline.
Key Responsibilities include:
Developing/ adopting agile approach, identify and test suitable (existing/new) digital features and platforms using time-bound experiments to test for proof of concept;
Using human centred design approach to curate library of “digital journeys and missions”;
Collaborating with cross-functional teams, procure and manage appointed vendors, provide secretariat support to the workgroup in charge of C&Y digitalisation efforts; assist in project and budget management, tracking project timelines, monitoring progress, and ensuring timely delivery of committed milestones.
Gathering useful insights from student projects, research, feedback from focus group discussions and user testing and conduct Brown Bag sessions to refine the digitalisation plan for future iterations;
Translating learnings into applications – bridge the gap between technical insights gleaned from pilot experiments with applications to reinforce health initiative/ efforts;
Providing regular updates to internal and external stakeholders on project progress and identify potential risks and issues.
What an ideal candidate looks like
An ideal candidate will be a dynamic and self-motivated individual with at least at least 3 years working experience in managing family/parents/children related digitalisation projects. You will have strong stakeholder management, project management, problem solving, networking, and influencing skills.
The candidate should also possess:
Good analytical, inter-personal, persuasive writing and verbal communication skills and exhibiting strong political sensitivity.
Able to multi-task and handle concurrent projects; works well in a fast-paced environment effectively and independently as well as in team-based arrangements
Adaptable to changes, proactive, dynamic, resourceful, creative, collaborative, self-motivated and a strong desire to excel.
Identifying and cultivating strategic partnerships, with ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels.
Able to work independently, and to lead/participate in peer/matrix teams where required.