Your main role is to lead our International Relations team to strengthen ties with NSCS’s international counterparts in support of our foreign policy and security interests. This includes engaging other national security establishments to understand their considerations and explore areas for cooperation.

To achieve this, you will lead the team will: • Strategise and execute NSCS’s engagements with international counterparts. • Support Senior Minister (Coordinating Minister for National Security) and senior management’s engagements with foreign counterparts. • Represent Singapore and NSCS at international engagements and forums.

• At least five years of working experience in the international domain preferred, but not required • Intellectual curiosity, clear logical and systems thinking, and excellent writing skills to deliver analyses synthesising information from multiple domains • Experience engaging multiple agencies and stakeholders, with skills to listen empathetically, sense dynamics, and persuade and negotiate across agencies and seniority levels to achieve desired outcomes • Ability to move between macro and micro perspectives • An intuitive grasp of Singapore’s security imperatives • Interest in current affairs • Ability to work in a dynamic environment and pick up new skills/domain knowledge if necessary • Proactive, articulate, purpose-driven, persistent, and patient We may refer you as a potential candidate for vacancies in other agencies we assessed you to be suitable for. By applying for this job, you are aware of, and are also giving NSCS consent for the cross referral. If you do not wish to be cross referred, please inform us via this link: https://go.gov.sg/candidateoptout.

The National Security Coordination Secretariat’s mission is to build a shared picture of cross-cutting national security risks, and mobilise the multi-agency effort needed to mitigate risks. We work to secure Singapore against risks in any domain that could compromise Singapore’s survival and success. This includes vulnerabilities to disruptions to day-to-day life, social divisions, and coercion to act against our national interest. Such risks impact multiple sectors and require multi-sector responses to effectively mitigate risks to Singapore.