Senior Manager / Manager (Strategy), Smart Nation Digital Government

About the role

The Smart Nation Group - Digital Government (SNDG), under the Ministry of Digital Development and Information, shapes and implements strategies and policies for a digital government that is digital to the core. As Senior Manager / Manager (Strategy), you will help build long-term digital capabilities for the public sector, drive innovation across government agencies and ensure digital services are user-centric, secure and resilient.

Key responsibilities

• Policy development: formulate and implement policies to improve digital product development across government agencies, and develop frameworks for responsible technology adoption and risk management
• Analyse emerging technological trends and their policy implications
• Contribute to the implementation of the Digital Government Blueprint and support digitalisation planning for ministries
• Design and take part in SNDG's work planning and strategic planning cycles
• Collaborate with other centre-of-government agencies to support public sector transformation and identify cross-agency synergies and central enablers
• Engage with a wide range of external and internal stakeholders
• Develop processes to support digitalisation planning across ministries and contribute to growing the analytics function to track digitalisation outcomes
• Monitor and evaluate the performance of digital transformation initiatives

Required profile

• At least 3-5 years of experience in technology policy, public policy, strategic planning or a related field
• Strong analytical, critical thinking and writing skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage with diverse stakeholders
• Ability to present recommendations to senior management
• Understanding of tech trends and their societal and regulatory implications
• Experience in product management or developing digital products is advantageous
• Comfortable with change and tight deadlines, with a strong sense of ownership and attention to detail