Senior Assistant Manager / Manager (Planning & Governance)

About the role

NHG Health is recruiting a Senior Assistant Manager / Manager (Planning & Governance) to provide secretariat and governance support for the Medical Tower's key decision-making platforms, including the Hospital Planning Committee (HPC), Hospital Management Committee (HMC) and associated workgroups. The role ensures that secretariat material is technically accurate, strategically coherent and meets the standards required for institutional and Ministry-level approvals.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end secretariat process for high-level committees and steering forums, including agenda-setting, coordinating with content leads and ensuring papers are ready for CEO and Director sign-off.
• Maintain the governance calendar across committees and workgroups, meeting submission deadlines, review cycles and approval timelines.
• Draft minutes, executive summaries and action trackers from complex technical and clinical discussions, and write board and management papers for senior institutional and Ministry audiences.
• Coordinate the drafting and submission of approval papers to MOH, MOF, MOHH and the Cluster Board, and document justifications for capital grants, budget variations and policy shifts.
• Maintain an audit-ready record of submissions, approvals and outstanding decisions, and track action items through to closure.
• Follow up with content leads, escalate unresolved items to leadership, and produce governance dashboards and status updates.

Required profile

• Degree in Healthcare Administration, Business, Communications or a related field.
• At least 5-8 years of experience in a secretariat, governance or institutional planning role, ideally in a large healthcare institution or public sector infrastructure project.
• Ability to liaise with Senior Management, Clinical Heads and Ministry representatives.

Required skills

• Exceptional writing skills for minutes, board papers and executive summaries to tight deadlines.
• Strong organisational skills managing multiple governance timelines and competing priorities.
• Meticulous attention to accuracy, documentation and version control.