Senior Lead Policy Analyst (Compensation and Organisational Design), HR Policy

PSD’s HR Policy cluster is reimagining HR policies, including compensation and benefits, talent attraction, development, performance management, for Singapore’s biggest employer – the public service and its 153,000 officers. We’re rethinking how policies, operations and tech could look like for a multi-generational workforce, against the backdrop of career tour-of-duties and tech disruption. Play a driving role in enabling a diverse, flourishing public sector workforce that continues to deliver great policies, initiatives and services, for the next 60 years.

You’ll spearhead policy transformation initiatives alongside a dynamic team of policy analysts from various agencies and specialists from Accenture, PWC and Kantar. You’ll ensure that our compensation and organisational design policies don’t just keep pace – they lead the way, ensuring that we attract the best talent for the job, while balancing fiscal prudence and being future-ready to cater to evolving trends such as job fractionalisation. The short feedback loop means that you will land tangible impact, quickly, on the ground. You will: Policy Transformation and Implementation • Do the end-to-end of policy development and implementation: From understanding the need, developing policy solutions, operationalising through agencies and systems, closing the feedback loop and refining policies • Challenge traditional policy-making paradigms by introducing data-driven frameworks, design thinking approaches, and agile policy development methodologies that enhance responsiveness and effectiveness • Develop policy acumen for national-level strategic considerations, anticipating future needs and economic/manpower trends to ensure policies remain ahead of the curve Strategic Expertise Development • Develop deep expertise and specialist knowledge in (a) formulating performance and market-based rewards framework and compensation packages and (b) organisational design, structure planning, job grading/evaluation methodologies that reflect modern and future workforce realities Thought Leadership and Advocacy • Be a thought leader in advocating best practices of how Public Service compensation policies and strategies can evolve to be future-ready • Drive cross-sector learning and knowledge exchange to continuously enhance policy transformation capabilities Strategic Partnership and Operations • Forge deep partnerships with key stakeholders, such as HR leaders, agency senior management and HR systems and tech teams, to ensure seamless policy implementation that delivers measurable impact • Manage agencies’ clarifications and requests, and innovate on the operational front through tech, process and policy redesign, to free up time for more impactful work • Have opportunities for stretch assignments that involve cross-cluster collaboration on areas such as compensation, performance management, talent mobility, ops and tech

Prerequisites: • At least 2 years of experience in policy development and/or HR work, preferably in compensation, total rewards, job grading/evaluation, organisational design, or organisational structure planning • Experience in policy and/or government environments a plus You will thrive in this role if you: • Strong analytical abilities, data-driven with detail orientation. Comfortable with quantitative analysis, particularly in Excel • Curiosity about problems and the why, and resourcefulness to navigate the macro context to design and implement effective and timely solutions • Strong communicator across written, presentation and verbal formats: o Ability to communicate complex issues and policy solutions simply o Ability to extract and distil complex analysis into key decision points for senior stakeholders o Willingness and drive to effectively engage a range of stakeholders to ensure that policy is successfully implemented • Bias for action and relentlessly resourceful in getting things done • Values integrity, teamwork and takes pride in going the extra mile • Understanding of tech and innovation a plus: o Familiarity with data processes a plus. This entails understanding best practices, engaging stakeholders to co-create a portfolio of standard and customised data products, and working with systems and processes to ensure that data is captured and analysed in a way that is useful to stakeholders. Applicants will typically be notified on whether they are shortlisted or not within 4 weeks of the closing date of the job posting. Successful candidates will be appointed on a 2-year contract in the first instance.