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Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment

Senior Executive/Assistant Director (Transformation Office), RFPD

Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment

Permanent/Contract

Closing on 26 Aug 2025

What the role is

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. You will be a member of the dynamic Research, Futures and Planning Division (RFPD), which oversees the behavioural research, strategic planning, resource planning, organisational transformation, and emergency preparedness functions in the Ministry. As part of the Transformation Office, you will be working closely with a lean team to drive MSE Family’s transformation journey. This is part of a Whole of Government effort to ensure a One Trusted Public Service, with Citizens at the Centre. Transformation is an emergent space to help organisations grow and thrive in today’s complex and uncertain operating environment. You will be given broad guidance to conceptualise, plan, and implement a range of interventions to engender a purpose-led transformation in the Ministry through work, workforce, and workplace. The mid-term focus is on digitalisation and innovation, and people development.

What you will be working on

You will be part of a lean team with the following key responsibilities: • Visioning and Strategy Workshops: Deploy a range of organisation development techniques to design, plan, and facilitate a series of workshops involving senior leadership, middle management, nominated officers, and essential partners to achieve internal stakeholder alignment for digitalisation in the Ministry. • Design Sprints: Utilise design thinking and lean six sigma techniques to design, plan, and facilitate a series of design sprints to (a) work with divisions in reviewing work processes and co-creating solutions, and (b) a range of stakeholders in gathering requirements for next-generation systems. The resulting process innovations should help our officers work smart, work well, work better, and address organisational needs. • Technical Partnerships: Conduct market scanning, and establish business partnering arrangements with technical partners from within the Ministry Family, across Public Service, and external providers that can translate our business requirements into (a) solutions that are deployable in the workplace, and (b) next-generation systems to facilitate organisational improvement. • Solutions Development and Project Management: Work with partners to translate business requirements into (a) solutions that could be deployed in our workplace, and (b) next-generation systems that could help our officers work more efficiently and address organisational needs. On project management, it would entail project scoping, budgeting, procurement, risk management, regular progress check-ins and necessary technical discussions and user acceptance testing. • Competency Development: Research on different approaches that public and private sector organisations have taken to build digital competencies. It should lead to suitable intervention designs that contextualise digital competencies for various job functions for incorporating in the Ministry’s Learning Roadmaps. This is to facilitate officers’ self-directed learning in areas relevant to their job roles. • Change Management: Leverage change management techniques to develop plans to support officers in embracing innovative solutions at the divisional and organisational levels. It will also involve communications and engagement, focusing on profiling success stories from divisions. The team will also work with key partners to co-create a supportive environment through service design, with the goal of promoting process innovation.

What we are looking for

• At least 3 to 5 years of relevant working experience with knowledge in organisation development, and process review. Experience in project management and change management of work processes would be advantageous. • Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills to engage, understand, clarify, and document business requirements for (a) solutions that can be deployed at the Divisional-level, and (b) next-generation systems at the Ministry-level. • Strong planning and organisational abilities to translate prototypes into actual solutions timely and within budget to help our officers work smart, work well, work better, and address organisational needs. • Able to see, identify and think systems so that proposed interventions can facilitate an enabling environment which promotes transformation and innovation. • Good verbal and written communication and presentation skills. • Good team player as well as an independent contributor that is agile, resilient, and collaborative.

About Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment

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.

About your application process

This job is closing on 26 Aug 2025.

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 Sustainability and the Environment or the wider Public Service.