Singapore Polytechnic

User Experience Researcher and/or Designer Traineeship [GRIT@Gov]

Traineeship

Closing on 02 Nov 2025

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What the role is

The GRaduate Industry Traineeship Programme within the Public Service (GRIT@Gov) aims to provide fresh graduates with opportunities to gain industry-relevant skills and experience that can strengthen their employability to take up full time roles in the sector.

User Experience Centre (UXC) is a dynamic, multidisciplinary-teamed consultancy centre within Singapore Polytechnic (SP) dedicated to driving innovation through Humanity-Centered design and diverse collaboration opportunities for industry partners through consultancy projects and training programmes.

Reporting to the Deputy Manager or other senior designations, the appointee will be part of the team from Singapore Polytechnic’s User Experience Centre. The appointee will be responsible for day-to-day tasks, including conducting user research, applying design thinking principles, creating visual designs, and developing prototypes. This role involves close collaboration with other team members to ensure that designs meet user needs and align with the overall project goals. He/she will take on multiple projects, monitor them and meet deadlines.

What you will be working on

[For User Experience Researcher] Plan and schedule interviews, focus group discussions for the purpose of gathering data insights of a particular project challenge area. For example, a particular population’s perspective on community healthcare.
[For User Experience Researcher] Distil patterns of insights including clustering and affinity mapping to populate categories of insights.
[For User Experience Designer] Create, ideate, and develop contents that addresses project challenges in consultancy and project work.
Collaborate with local and regional partners—particularly in ASEAN—on consultancy, project work, business development, internationalization efforts, and delivery of training workshops, short courses, and programmes across pre-employment and continuing education contexts.
Develop and deliver content on Design Thinking and Humanity-Centered Design for training, consultancy, and micro-learning modules; support workshop setup and handle related administrative tasks such as interview scheduling, minutes-taking, and document archival.

What we are looking for

Ability to facilitate and/or lead training workshops with industry partners and stakeholders.
Possesses strong communication and collaboration abilities and able to work independently and within a team.
Ability to connect dots and sense make from data points and insights.
Possesses strong digital literacy in Adobe Creative Suite and UX design tools such as MIRO, Figma, and Adobe XD, with demonstrated skills in Design Thinking, User Research, UX and Prototyping, and Visual Design; Spatial Design experience is a valuable bonus.
A portfolio showcasing relevant design work from internship, gig work, freelance would be advantageous.

About your application process

This job is closing on 02 Nov 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 Singapore Polytechnic or the wider Public Service.

Eligibility for GRIT@Gov traineeship

All trainees must fulfil the following criteria:

Singapore Citizen or Permanent Resident; and
Graduated or graduating in 2024 or 2025 from Universities, Polytechnics, the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) and other Educational Institutions (e.g. private universities and overseas institutions); or
Graduated earlier from above institutions and completed National Service in 2024 or 2025.

Trainees who complete their studies from Universities, Polytechnics, the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) or other Educational Institutions within 2025 but who will only receive their qualification/certification award in 2026 are eligible for the programme as well.

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About Singapore Polytechnic

As Singapore’s first polytechnic, Singapore Polytechnic (SP) prides ourselves in providing the best learning experience for our students in pre-employment and continuing adult education. The mission of SP is to prepare our learners to be life ready, work ready and world ready. Our vision is to be a caring community of inspired learners committed to serving with mastery.

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