Sector Strategy and Development (SSD) is a central policy directorate within the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) that oversees sector-wide policies and programmes to ensure (a) sustainable and well-planned services; (b) a competent and future-ready workforce; (c) future-ready social service agencies that deliver quality services, and (d) a well-resourced sector with active contributions from the community.
Under SSD, the Manpower Policy and Planning (MPP) division identifies sector-wide manpower challenges using analysis of manpower trends. This allows for informed policies and schemes designed to ensure sufficient and capable manpower, by building sustainable pipelines, improving attraction and retention, and strengthening capabilities of the social service workforce.
Ministry Of Social And Family Development
Assistant Director (Manpower Sustainability), SSD/MPP
Contract
Closing on 21 Apr 2026What the role is
What you will be working on
You will lead a dynamic team overseeing sector-wide workforce optimisation strategies to enable sustainable service delivery and long-term growth in the social service and early childhood sectors. You will play a critical role in shaping how services across different domain areas (e.g. family, children and youth, disability) are designed upstream by providing central stewardship over sector manpower considerations. Your key responsibilities include:
• Drive strategies and initiatives to optimise the sector’s workforce composition, leverage alternative manpower sources and achieve greater manpower efficiency.
• Establish staffing model design principles, standards and benchmarks to enable coherent and robust translation of service delivery models to staffing requirements.
• Advise leadership and programme divisions on trade-offs between service ambition, professional practice and system-level manpower pressures, to ensure that service delivery is manpower-enabled.
What we are looking for
• Ability to manage a team, preferably with at least 2 to 3 years of supervisory experience.
• Good understanding of Singapore’s social service sector/ landscape would be an advantage.
• Strong data analysis, systems-thinking and policy development skills; able to distil critical issues and sense-make from complex and wide-ranging information to arrive at effective policy solutions and recommendations.
• Strong interpersonal, stakeholder engagement and project management skills; excel at working with people of all levels and able to build good collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
About your application process
This job is closing on 21 Apr 2026.
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 Social And Family Development or the wider Public Service.
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At MSF, our mission is to nurture and build resilient individuals, strong families, and a caring society. We offer meaningful and impactful people-centric careers in the design and delivery of policies, services and programmes. We are an all-inclusive and family friendly workplace where career growth is prioritised through a comprehensive suite of development opportunities to help our officers succeed today as well as be future-ready. We do this through various formal and informal learning and development programmes for officers to build different competencies and gain diverse work experiences within MSF, the Public as well as the Social Service Sectors.
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