About The Role

Drive Smart Nation Strategy, to ensure that Singapore and Singaporeans thrive in the digital age, harnessing opportunities and address challenges ahead
Identify and anticipate digital developments across a wide sweep of domains, such as changing social norms, rising digital divides, the impact of AI, etc.
Sensemake the implications of these developments on our Smart Nation 2.0 goals in the near to medium-term future
Develop insights and strategies to guide how Government might respond, shoring up Government’s Smart Nation-related strategy or policy moves
This includes diagnosing key ‘problems’ or gaps in Government’s strategy that require addressing, persuading stakeholders with sharp and timely insights, working with stakeholders to incubate new policy responses and solutions
Navigate a wide landscape of stakeholders for the above responsibilities, including building links with diverse networks of thought leaders, collaborating on pilot projects, etc.
Building sensing and policy incubation capabilities across the MDDI family, to strengthen Government’s abilities to anticipate and quickly adapt to fast-paced digital developments
Both public policy or private sector experience welcome
The job deals with and addresses cross-disciplinary issues that intersect with the digital / tech and media / information domains, spanning a wide range of tools and levers such as futures thinking, scenario planning, and policymaking across regulations / industry development / public education and more. We are therefore recruiting for officers with experience/expertise in any of the following areas:
Social, tech or economic policy
Start-up/tech firm experience – product policy/trust and safety/government relations
Tech law
Tech/computer science – ability to build innovative tech tools to help the team derive richer insights
Management consultancy
Academia, especially in social sciences, behavioural science, and technology-related fields
Independent worker who is a hands-on problem-solver
Excellent critical thinking skills. Curiosity is key
Comfortable with complexity and quickly evolving environments
Team players with a stake in team vision and culture
Interest in emerging technologies and their implications for Singapore