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Ministry of Digital Development and Information

Intern, Whole-of-Government Digital Product Performance, SNDG (3 months)

Ministry of Digital Development and Information

Internship

What the role is

The Smart Nation Group – Digital Government (SNDG), under the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and administratively managed by the Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI), plans and prioritizes key Smart Nation and digital government projects, raises the standards of Government ICT and services, builds long-term capabilities for the public sector, and promotes adoption and participation in digital and smart innovations. It takes a whole-of-nation effort, and we will actively engage the public, the industry and fellow agencies as we build a Smart Nation together. This three-month internship offers an exciting opportunity to develop a policy framework and platform that tracks the performance of digital products across the whole of government. The role involves automatically collecting data on products' North Star metrics and costs, and monitoring their relative improvement over time.

What you will be working on

Project Objectives: • Validate the technical feasibility of the platform in automatically collecting metric data from product teams. • Validate that the availability of metric data on the platform leads to better product performance. • Validate that policy framework to incentivise metric tracking leads to better product performance. • Develop a self-help tool for product teams to submit accurate and appropriate metric data. Expected Deliverables: • Support the operationalisation of an automated platform for all products within 1 agency and establish mechanism to measure its success. • Support the design of a policy framework to incentivise metric tracking and establish mechanism to measure its success. • Support the development of a self-help tool to help product teams self-assess the appropriateness of their metrics for submission to the automated platform

What we are looking for

• Product management, problem solving • Some proficiency in software engineering will be preferable

About Ministry of Digital Development and Information

The Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI) drives Singapore’s digital development in four key domains — the economy, government, security, and society. MDDI oversees the development of the infocomm technology, cybersecurity, and media sectors; the Government’s digitalisation initiatives; and the national library, national archives, and public libraries. The Ministry is also responsible for effective public communications, and the Government’s information and public communication policies.

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 Digital Development and Information or the wider Public Service.