You will support the Ministry’s efforts in advancing value-driven care at the national level leveraging on health performance and cost utilisation data to generate “value” in healthcare – driving better patient outcomes, reducing inefficiencies, improving safety and optimising resource utilisation. The Deputy Director will oversee the implementation and operationalisation of the national Value-Driven Care (VDC) programme through the strategic supervision of two functional teams: (1) Evidence-Based Practice and Care/Cost Variation Analysis, and (2) Data Collection, Analysis, and Insight Generation. This role is responsible for ensuring the end-to-end integration of clinical pathway development, standardised outcome measurement, variation analytics, and data-driven quality improvement recommendations under the VDC framework. This role also entails oversight and governance of clinical coding practice nationally. You will be working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment that would require the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders at the same time.

1. Programme Oversight and Functional Supervision • Provide strategic and operational leadership over the VDC programme, ensuring its alignment with system-level priorities and healthcare value objectives. • Supervise and coordinate the workplans and deliverables of two core teams, ensuring alignment across evidence synthesis, analytical modelling, and implementation pathways. • Set performance targets and technical standards for both teams; ensure adherence to methodological rigour, data integrity, and clinical relevance. • Provide strategic and operational supervision of national-level clinical coding work via engagements with clinical coders across the healthcare sector to address coding quality, training and system-wide adoption issues. • Drive workforce capability development by mentoring team leads, identifying skill gaps, and supporting recruitment, upskilling and professional development efforts. 2. Clinical Pathway Design and Cost Mapping • Oversee the development of standardised clinical care pathways, incorporating evidence-based diagnostic and therapeutic milestones. • Ensure pathways are analytically robust, incorporating temporal sequencing, decision nodes, and associated cost structures (e.g. activity-based costing, DRG-based mapping). • Validate pathway assumptions with clinicians and financial modellers; supervise the incorporation of clinical guidelines and benchmarking standards. 3. Standardisation of Outcome Measures • Direct the identification, refinement, and implementation of standardised outcome measures across clinical, process, patient-reported, and cost domains. • Ensure measures are methodologically sound, clinically relevant, and suitable for longitudinal monitoring and benchmarking. • Oversee alignment of measures with pathway logic models and data collection protocols to support comparative effectiveness analysis. 4. Supervision of Variation Analysis • Oversee the end-to-end process for identifying unwarranted variation in clinical practice, process adherence, patient outcomes, and resource utilisation. • Provide technical guidance on methods used (e.g. risk adjustment, outlier detection, control charts, clustering techniques). • Supervise the derivation of insights from variation analytics and ensure clinical validation of results and implications for system efficiency and quality. 5. Insights Generation, Reporting and Stakeholder Communication • Ensure systematic translation of analytical findings into decision-support outputs (e.g. dashboards, performance reports, intervention logic models). • Provide final quality assurance of communication products for technical accuracy, narrative clarity, and relevance to target stakeholders. • Support structured engagement with clinical leads, health economists, administrators, and policymakers to socialise findings and drive evidence-informed action.

Key Competencies Required: • Thinking Clearly & Making Sound Judgements – Strong analytical and critical thinking abilities to support the crafting of sound policy recommendations; ability to grasp timelines, operating context and ground realities. • Learning & Putting Skills into Action - Possesses the drive and curiosity to learn and apply new skills, knowledge and new ways of working. • Improving & Innovating – Ability to seek continual improvements, and to innovate and experiment while managing the risks involved. • Working Effectively with Stakeholders – Ability to mobilise and rally partners and stakeholders towards a collective purpose. • Stewarding Systems for Today and Tomorrow – Ability to strengthen and improve work systems and processes where needed. • Caring for, Developing and Inspiring Staff – Ability to be an effective people developer. Key Skills/Knowledge Required: • Degree in any healthcare-related discipline. A medical degree (MBBS, MD or equivalent) is an advantage. • At least 10 years’ experience working in a clinical environment, including medical affairs • Additional qualifications in public health, health policy, epidemiology or health informatics is highly desirable. • Familiar with healthcare data analysis and data analytics tools • Experience in conducting coding review or audits • Knowledge of using statistical/ data visualisation applications will be an advantage. • Competent in Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint As part of the shortlisting process for this role, candidates may be required to complete a medical declaration and/or undergo further assessment.

The Ministry of Health’s (MOH) vision is to champion a healthy nation with our people – to live well, live long and with peace of mind. As an open country constantly exposed to an interconnected world, Singapore faces complex issues in public healthcare. MOH constantly grapples with new challenges brought on by an increasingly globalised world, a rapidly ageing population and rising expectations. MOH’s responses to these challenges include preventing and managing the outbreak of diseases such as SARS and Influenza A (H1N1), designing a healthcare system that delivers care in an integrated and effective manner, growing the capacity and capabilities within the sector, and managing healthcare inflation. As an MOH officer, you will be involved in formulating and implementing policies that guide Singapore’s healthcare ecosystem. You will work alongside a team with varied skills and backgrounds, but with the common goals of (i) promoting good health and reducing illnesses; (ii) ensuring that Singaporeans have access to good and affordable healthcare; and (iii) pursuing medical excellence. Your work will have far-reaching impact on the health and lives of Singaporeans.