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People's Association

People's Association

Senior Manager (Emergency Resources)

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What the role is

• Supports WOG efforts in strengthen community engagement and community responsiveness

• Develops, reviews and implements policies, plans, systems and schemes on Emergency Preparedness (EP) to enhance PA/GROs’ capabilities and readiness in responding to emergencies

• Co-creates, facilitates and co-ordinates projects and programmes with GROs, volunteers and community partners to enhance their community involvement, engagement, preparedness and response for emergencies.

• Widens residents’ outreach and deepens engagement through EP programmes and active collaboration with partners.

What you will be working on

  • Develops and establishes doctrine, policies, plans, EOP, SOP and systems to support EP and coordinates nationwide community emergency responses (e.g. haze, dengue, communal tension, infectious disease, fire, chemical incident etc)

  • Supports PA’s NE and civil emergency CE roles and functions and works with PA Crisis Management Group (CMG), Divisions to implement PA crises responses

  • Supports PA’s national emergency (NE) and civil emergency (CE) roles and functions and works with PA Divisions to update and implement their NE and CE SOP and EOP requirements

  • Point of contact for external agencies in supporting WOG NE/CE emergency collaborations and exercises and liaises with PA divisions on EP and NE/CE related activities including mask distribution, warehouse storage/delivery and replenishment matters.

  • Manages PA Crisis Operations Centre (COC) and supports secretariat duties for emergency operations such as mask distribution to vulnerable groups upon haze activation, COVID-19 reports and SMM compliance, tropical storm or heatwave crises

  • Develops, reviews and manages G-Alert recall system and PA Business Continuity Plan, including PAHQ alternate sites

  • Oversee and manage EP division warehouse storage and delivery of the national mask stockpile and EP collaterals including procurement/tender/award of vendor

  • Oversees and provide guidance, advice and support to Constituency Offices and Community Emergency and Engagement Committees (C2Es) in preparing the community for emergencies through strengthening their capabilities and operational readiness

  • Implement emergency preparedness training programmes and crisis response exercises to build and strengthen the capabilities and enhance the operational readiness of PA, community leaders, corporate/community partners, CRRTs and volunteers

  • Plans and implements the recognition and awards schemes to recognize and reward the GROs in their EP efforts e.g. NCEP Awards, PA-CERT Award and Community Resilience Awards

  • Provide secretariat support to the Panel of Activists for Community Engagement (PACE), Grassroots CEP Core Group, C2E Council EXCO, Functional Committees

  • Manage the division/section/C2E Council EXCO budget, financial governance, procurement and administrative functions

  • Coordinates and compile reports and submissions on EP activities and programmes and engagement status of corporate members and partners

  • Co-ordinates, co-creates, organizes and implements the EP programmes/ initiatives/roadshows to widen outreach and deepen engagement

  • Point of contact for external agencies in supporting WOG NE/CE emergency collaborations and exercises and liaises with PA divisions on EP and NE/CE related activities and matters

  • Point of contact for external agencies for inter-agency EP collaborations/programmes and liaises with PA divisions on related follow-up and co-ordination

  • Works with COs to grow, manage and engage IG groups to deepen engagement (e.g. CEP Connector, Lifesaving, WeCare volunteers, COP and CERT)

  • Coordinates and develops media engagement/communications plans and publicity materials including social media

  • Manage division/section CERT engagement, including recruitment, management, recognition and constituency/GRC-level/national deployment

  • Coordinates, maintains and updates training records, master plans and database of key community leaders and CERT for emergency activation

  • Coordinates and facilitates conduct of TTXs and CPXs to validate EOP, SOP and emergency response plan of PAs and GROs

  • Supervises and provides guidance to the staff to ensure effective and efficient functioning of the Section

  • Attends monthly divisional meetings and other internal or external meetings as assigned

What we are looking for

Other ad hoc duties not covered under main responsibilities and duties.

  • Participates in cross-divisional/agency projects to understand the work of other PA elements e.g. WeCare movement and support WOG efforts

  • Prepares meeting minutes, draft SOPs, tender documents and other administration requirements to support the EP Division on emergency preparedness

  • Participates in cross-divisional/agency projects to understand the work of other PA elements and support WOG efforts

  • Engage PA Corporate members and partners on quick sensing and EP-related projects and cultivate opinion leaders

  • Performs other duties as assigned by Senior Officers

About your application process

This job is closing in 6 day(s).

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 People's Association or the wider Public Service.


About People's Association

The People’s Association was set up in 1960, in a time of racial and communal strife, to foster racial harmony and social cohesion. Today, we continue to be driven by the same purpose - to build an inclusive, united and resilient Singapore. We create spaces and opportunities for people of different backgrounds to participate and volunteer in their community. Through community participation, we connect people and deepen relationships to build communities of mutual care and trust.

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