Public Service Division
Assistant Director/Strategic Planning
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What the role is
As Assistant Director, Strategic Planning, you will play a pivotal leadership role in shaping HSA’s organisational direction, driving enterprise-wide strategic planning processes, and ensuring alignment with the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) and Whole-of-Government (WoG) priorities. This is a supervisory role where you will lead a small team of officers and work closely with HSA’s senior leadership, divisions, and external stakeholders to translate strategic intent into actionable plans.
What you will be working on
- Lead and coordinate HSA’s 5-year strategy review process, including the facilitation of strategic conversations with senior leadership and divisional heads, and synthesis of inputs into a coherent organisational strategy.
- Lead and coordinate HSA’s annual work planning cycle, including the development of key initiatives in divisions’ workplans, as well as presentations to senior management.
- Maintain and manage a consolidated tracker of HSA’s key strategic initiatives, ensuring timely updates from divisional owners and flagging risks or delays to senior management.
- Drive horizon scanning, environmental analysis, and foresight exercises to identify emerging trends, risks, and opportunities relevant to the organisation.
- Plan and organise townhalls, staff forums, senior management retreats.
- Responsible for secretariat duties for senior management meeting platforms, including agenda curation, minutes, and follow-up coordination.
- Work closely with the Transformation unit to ensure alignment between strategic planning priorities and ongoing transformation programmes and initiatives.
- Supervise, mentor, and develop a team of managers within the Strategic Planning unit.
- Assign work, review outputs, and provide guidance to ensure quality and timeliness of deliverables.
- Foster a collaborative and high-performance team culture aligned with HSA’s values.
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What we are looking for
- Background in Public Policy, Business Administration, Health Sciences, or a related discipline.
- At least 6–8 years of relevant working experience, with a minimum of 2 years in a supervisory or team leadership capacity.
- Proven experience in strategic planning, corporate planning, policy development.
- Experience in planning and executing large-scale organisational events such as townhalls, staff forums, or leadership retreats.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to distil complex information into clear, actionable insights.
- Strong project management and coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and deadlines concurrently.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare high-quality papers and presentations for senior audiences.
- Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively across all levels of the organisation and with external partners.
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Advantageous:
- Familiarity with Singapore’s health regulatory landscape or public health ecosystem.
- Experience in or exposure to organisational transformation and change management.
- Ability to operate fluidly across planning and transformation functions, adapting to shifting priorities and cross-unit demands.
The Singapore Public Service plays a key role in the economic growth, progress and stability of Singapore by formulating and implementing government policies, as well as providing key public services. Whether you are a fresh graduate joining the workforce or an experienced professional, the Singapore Public Service offers a great variety of job opportunities for you. The work in the Public Service can be broadly categorised into the following sectors: Economic, Social, Security & External Relations, and Administration & Corporate Development.
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