At MSE and our family of agencies – PUB, NEA, and SFA – we drive sustainability and resilience initiatives that improve the everyday lives of Singaporeans. As part of the MSE Family, you will be at the forefront of innovation, leading efforts to safeguard water resources, protect public health, and ensure food safety. Through partnerships across sectors, we tackle evolving challenges while fostering an inclusive, safe, and supportive workplace. Join us in shaping Singapore’s sustainable future and making a lasting impact on the everyday lives of generations to come. The role is for a Deputy Director in the Science and Technology Planning Division (STPD). You will oversee and coordinate R&D/S&T programmes under RIE2025 for MSE Family, while ensuring alignment with policy objectives, identifying system-level synergies/trade-offs to safeguard allocation of resources, and facilitating translation and commercialisation of technologies for economic value capture STPD uses S&T as an enabler to support the overall MSE vision of creating a sustainable, resource-resilient and climate-resilient Singapore. S&T topics are broad-ranging spanning from water resources, resource circularity, climate adaptation, food security etc.

As a member of the STPD team, your job scope includes: • Maintain oversight, plan, coordinate, and drive MSE Family’s R&D/S&T in environment, food, and water, so as to ensure stronger alignment across various relevant MSE Family S&T Masterplans and technology roadmaps to identify common priority areas, while maximising outcomes. • Oversee, coordinate, evaluate R&D strategies/programmes/funding initiatives under the Resource, Environmental and Sustainability sub-track of the Urban Solutions and Sustainability domain to support the national RIE2025 research agenda (i.e. in areas of Climate Change, Circular Economy, Sustainability etc.). • Coordinate FEC-Resource, Environment and Sustainability (RES) cluster ITMs and sectoral plans development while fostering collaboration with industry to promote technology translation and commercialisation in the MSE-space and RIE, building and retaining capabilities, so as to value-capture our R&D investments, and in turn ensure economic competitiveness.

• Tertiary qualifications, preferably in an engineering, technology, or science discipline, with at least 8-10 years of relevant work experience in environmental, food and water domains. • Experience in reviewing and developing science and technology related policies/strategies. • Strategic planning, programme management, with R&D and/or I&E experience, along with experience in governance processes and management of R&D programmes, projects and studies in cross-cutting S&T areas. • Knowledgeable in building database and data analytics to derive insights and identify gaps. • Ability to analyse data and synthesise disparate trends to provide meaningful insights such as risks and opportunities to economy or alternate/fresh perspectives e.g. CBAs, LCAs. • Highly motivated, multi-tasker in a dynamic environment, and able to lead a lean team with minimal supervision. • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage other technical and industry experts. • Strong analytical, strategic, and conceptual thinking skills, with keen ability to grasp issues and acquire knowledge in new domains, and to analyse multiple sources of information (i.e. systems-level thinking) and data to derive insights for strategy formulation • Excellent presentation and writing skills

The Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (MSE) is committed to providing Singaporeans with a clean and sustainable environment, and safe and secure supplies of food and water. MSE’s key priorities are to ensure a sustainable, resource-efficient and climate resilient Singapore. Our three strategic directions include economic resilience, resource resilience and climate resilience. We enjoy challenging and diverse careers, which are bound together by the common cause - making Singapore’s living environment among the best in the world. Everyone who works at MSE has a role to play in helping to shape our environment – not just for now, but for generations to come. We are constantly on the lookout for energetic, pro-active and committed individuals to join us. Successful candidates can expect a fulfilling career with competitive remuneration package and comprehensive range of benefits, as well as opportunities for cross-deployment within MSE and our Statutory Boards as part of our holistic career development. To learn more about us, please visit https://www.mse.gov.sg.