ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (CLIMATE ADAPTATION), ECPD

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. Mission Climate change poses an existential threat to Singapore, a low-lying, tropical island state. In the coming decades, our country will face rising sea levels, increasing urban heat, extreme weather events and threats to our food supply, biodiversity and population health. In response to this challenge, the Government launched the Singapore Green Plan 2030, a whole-of-nation movement to advance Singapore’s national agenda on sustainable development. It charts ambitious and concrete targets, positioning us to achieve our long-term goal of net zero emissions by 2050, and to remain resilient against the impacts of climate change. About MSE-ECPD Climate action is a priority for MSE, and is driven by the Energy & Climate Policy Division (ECPD). ECPD oversees issues relating to climate science, climate adaptation, climate mitigation, and nuclear safety and radiation protection. You will join a dynamic team to work on issues such as coastal protection and heat resilience that contributes to the strategic objectives of building up Singapore’s climate resilience at a time where work and interest in climate policy is accelerating. You will have the opportunity to work on issues which are technically complex, require long-term resourcing and detailed planning, need to consider other priorities such as land use and biodiversity preservation, and balance various perspectives from various segments of the public.

Your key responsibilities include: • Formulating and analysing policies relating to coastal protection and urban heat resilience, including broad strategy, legislation and regulations, funding mechanisms, capability building and public engagement strategies; • Providing support to inter-agency committees overseeing Singapore’s climate resilience to coordinate efforts within Government; • Coordinating efforts with the Meteorological Service Singapore and Centre for Climate Research Singapore to formulate and review strategies and programmes that contributes to building climate science and meteorological capabilities in Singapore; • Fostering domestic and international collaborations on policy and capability building of climate science with stakeholders such as government agencies, industries, research institutions and institutes of higher learning; • Formulating and coordinating Singapore’s National Adaptation Plan across the Government, including drafting, public engagements and communications, capability building and monitoring targets; and • Contributing to MSE’s and the government’s broader priorities in sustainability and climate change.

We are looking for candidates who: • Formulating and analysing policies relating to coastal protection and urban heat resilience, including broad strategy, legislation and regulations, funding mechanisms, capability building and public engagement strategies; • Providing support to inter-agency committees overseeing Singapore’s climate resilience to coordinate efforts within Government; • Coordinating efforts with the Meteorological Service Singapore and Centre for Climate Research Singapore to formulate and review strategies and programmes that contributes to building climate science and meteorological capabilities in Singapore; • Fostering domestic and international collaborations on policy and capability building of climate science with stakeholders such as government agencies, industries, research institutions and institutes of higher learning; • Formulating and coordinating Singapore’s National Adaptation Plan across the Government, including drafting, public engagements and communications, capability building and monitoring targets; and • Contributing to MSE’s and the government’s broader priorities in sustainability and climate change. Candidates who have had prior experience in a policy context (at least 3-5 years) are preferred, although this is not absolutely necessary.