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Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX)

Senior Manager / Manager (Resource Planning)

Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX)

Permanent/Contract

Closing in 1 day(s)

What the role is

HTX’s Plans & Strategy’s role is to prepare HTX for the future by ensuring that our strategic plans are informed by a comprehensive analysis of challenges, opportunities and priorities. The Resources Plans & Organisation under Plans & Strategy oversees the allocation and management of resources in Budget and Manpower, to effect these strategic plans. The job-holder has to understand Home Team’s operating context, challenges, constraints and harmonise efforts across all Home Team Departments and agencies. The Home Team is pushing ahead to grow our Science & Technology (S&T) capabilities. The work environment is constantly evolving as we continue to restructure and venture into new areas of work. Therefore, the job-holder must be adaptable, dynamic and have the tenacity to push through changes and transformation work.

What you will be working on

1) Provide sound recommendations to HTX Senior Management in different resource areas by providing trade-off analysis when evaluating resource requests, streamlining fundamental working principles, ensuring clear and sound business proposals, centrally aggregating requests to form larger masterplans and developing an acumen for management assessment over time. This will involve arbitrating and/or leveraging resource requests amongst different internal and external stakeholders with divergent interests. 2)Specific to budget requests, the job-holder has to review papers spanning a broad range of domains in the Home Team and make recommendations to HTX Senior Management. The papers can cover replacement of equipment, vehicles, weapons, ICT systems, hardware and software etc as well as building and infrastructure maintenance. 3)The volume of budget papers is high and the team often has to deal with urgent requests or challenging stakeholders with an array of requests, given tight delivery timelines. The review will include ensuring key project planning parameters are taken into consideration including broader plans, cost-benefit analysis, project risks and maintenance plans. 4) The job-holder also needs to collate and sense-make overall budget requests to optimise overall resource usage. 5) Comfortable working closely with Dir/DD to engage and understand the diverse needs of stakeholders at various levels of seniority. To this end, the job holder needs to be able to pull people together and hold his/her own, when engaging stakeholders with diverging viewpoints. 6)The job holder also needs to be meticulous and pay close attention to detail while maintaining a broader strategic perspective and understanding the broader operating context.

What we are looking for

1) Tertiary qualification in Computer Engineering/ Computer Science/ Information Technology or relevant disciplines. 2) Minimum 2 to 3 years of ICT work experience. Prior experience in project management is helpful. 3) Exercise sound judgement to evaluate business proposals. 4) Have a good sense of perspective to understand and balance organisation needs vis-à-vis requirements from HTX sub-units. 5) Have the tenacity and rigor of mind to handle transformation work 6) Be adaptable and dynamic as things evolve 7) Be a dependable team player/leader who is accommodating and can work with others, because the work scope is fluid and evolves rapidly All new hires are appointed on a two-year contract in the first instance and will be assessed and considered for permanent tenure over time, based on performance. As part of the shortlisting process for this role, you may be required to complete a medical declaration and/or undergo further assessment. All applicants will be updated on the status of their applications within 4 weeks upon closing of the advertisement. #LI-CW1

About Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX)

HTX is the world’s first Science and Technology agency that integrates a diverse range of scientific and engineering capabilities to innovate and deliver transformative and operationally-ready solutions for homeland security. As a statutory board of the Ministry of Home Affairs and integral to the Home Team, HTX works at the forefront of science and technology to empower Singapore’s frontline of security. Our shared mission is to amplify, augment and accelerate the Home Team’s advantage and secure Singapore as the safest place on planet earth.