Assistant Director, Innovation Office (Health Tech Ecosystem Lead)

About the role

The Health Promotion Board's Innovation Office identifies, explores and shapes innovation opportunities to improve how citizens' health is engaged and enhanced. This Assistant Director role reports to the Deputy Director, Innovation Office, and drives the industry-facing side of the office: spotting emerging trends, building strategic health tech partnerships and brokering collaborations between external technology ecosystem players and internal stakeholders into exploratory pilots.

Key responsibilities

• Connect internal needs with external capabilities to build an innovation pipeline aligned with HPB's strategic priorities.
• Work with internal stakeholders to identify, clarify and refine priority problem statements and opportunity areas.
• Scan emerging technology trends, platforms and ecosystems to inform how HPB approaches priority problem spaces.
• Build and maintain a network of partners including technology firms, startups, academia and intermediaries such as incubators and ecosystem builders.
• Match external partners to HPB problem statements and facilitate early-stage collaborations that move promising ideas into exploratory pilots.
• Support programme teams in accessing external expertise, partners and platforms, and guide junior officers, interns or temporary staff where relevant.

Required profile

• At least 8-10 years of relevant experience, with a strong track record in strategy, innovation, policy, transformation, venture building, pilots or other exploratory work in complex environments.
• Experience in public health, healthcare or a related sector is an advantage.
• Ability to identify, assess and shape opportunities in ambiguous contexts, and to translate technology signals into opportunity pathways.
• Strong partnership-building skills and confidence engaging technology firms, startups, academia, intermediaries and internal stakeholders.

Required skills

• Familiarity with digital and AI tools in a public health or government setting is an advantage; deep technical expertise is not required.

Successful candidates are offered a 2-year contract in the first instance.