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Health Promotion Board

Assistant Director, Parents & Caregivers (8mths contract)

Health Promotion Board

Fixed Terms

What the role is

The Health Promotion Board’s vision is to make Singapore a nation of healthier people.

Come be a part of this journey if you’re passionate about creating boundary-pushing work that drives behavioral change.

You will be a part of HPB’s Parents & Caregivers team, which aims to advance health promotion efforts by going upstream to engage parents-to-be, parents and caregivers to help them adopt positive health habits for themselves and their young children. You will be leading innovation and integration efforts to strengthen HPB’s efforts in parents and caregivers’ engagement and health promotion.

Scope

Managing a small team, you will lead your team to achieve stipulated Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and contribute to the new nation-wide Grow Well SG initiative. As a key member of Parents & Caregivers team, you will have to be comfortable to put on many hats. Your job responsibilities will include:

  • Lead business development for Out-of-Home parent engagements

  • Lead and manage out-of-home activations through development, implementation and evaluation of projects/ programmes.

  • Manage internal and external stakeholders to develop the necessary resources and implement relevant engagement strategies

  • Guide the team in identifying trends, gaps and ground insights to inform and influence internal and external partners to deliver attractive value propositions to parents and caregivers.

  • Lead innovations for parent engagement in offline engagements

  • Set-up and pilot experiments in on-ground activations as part of enriching online-offline (phygital) activations.

  • Formulate collaborative partnerships with Whole-of-Government agencies and private entities to champion parent-child engagements.

  • Lead, manage and improve the processes (e.g. vendor management, project management, evaluation of key initiatives), and coordinate with team members as part of project team.

  • Manage information system (eg dashboard on KPI tracking) and report department’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

What an ideal candidate looks like

An ideal candidate will be a dynamic, driven and self-motivated individual with preferably at least 8 years of relevant working experience in partnership and project management. The candidate should possess the following competencies:

  • Good leadership competencies including negotiation/influencing and conflict management skills.

  • Good project management skills with experience preferred in ideas curation and execution,  and project management for the required target audience

  • Good organisation skills, being able to think objectively and able to mulit-task

  • Good project management skills with experience in project management and implementation

  • Good written and verbal communication skills. Prior experience in creative and human-centered design is a plus

  • Some proficiency in data analysis and reporting

  • Understanding on the local parenting landscape

[Please note this is a 8 months contract position]

About Health Promotion Board

Established in 2001, the Health Promotion Board’s (HPB) vision is to build a nation of healthy people. We aim to empower residents in Singapore to attain optimal health, increase the quality and years of healthy life, and prevent illnesses, disability and premature death. To achieve this, HPB drives national health promotion and disease prevention programmes, spearheads health education initiatives and creates a supportive environment in Singapore where healthy lifestyle options are available and accessible for healthy living every day.