The Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA) serves as the regulatory and developmental authority for the early childhood (EC) sector in Singapore, overseeing key aspects of children’s development below the age of 7, across both kindergartens and childcare centres. ECDA is an autonomous agency jointly overseen by the Ministry of Education (MOE) and the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF), and is hosted under the Ministry of Social and Family Development.
The Sector Planning Department in ECDA oversees infrastructure planning as well as manpower planning & programmes in close collaboration with industry partners and other government agencies.
Ministry Of Social And Family Development
Manager (Manpower Planning), ECDA/SP
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What the role is
What you will be working on
You will be part of the manpower planning team working on strategies to ensure adequate manpower supply of good quality for the early childhood and early intervention (EI) sector.
For this role, you will be leading and driving overall manpower attraction and retention strategies for the EI sector.
• Analyse and track manpower data to derive manpower trends and patterns
• Develop, lead and implement initiatives to ensure strong and sustainable pipeline to meet service provision on ground
• Evaluate outcomes of manpower initiatives and review initiatives
• Operationalise the salary compliance framework for educators
What we are looking for
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and communication skills
• Proactive and can-do mindset
• Data analytical skills and/or good Microsoft Excel proficiency preferred
About your application process
If you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the job ad closing date, we seek your understanding that it is likely that we are not moving forward with your application for this role. We thank you for your interest and would like to assure you that this does not affect your other job applications with the Public Service. We encourage you to explore and apply for other roles within Ministry Of Social And Family Development or the wider Public Service.
About Ministry Of Social And Family Development
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At MSF, our mission is to nurture and build resilient individuals, strong families, and a caring society. We offer meaningful and impactful people-centric careers in the design and delivery of policies, services and programmes. We are an all-inclusive and family friendly workplace where career growth is prioritised through a comprehensive suite of development opportunities to help our officers succeed today as well as be future-ready. We do this through various formal and informal learning and development programmes for officers to build different competencies and gain diverse work experiences within MSF, the Public as well as the Social Service Sectors.
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