Senior Manager, Monitoring & Surveillance(1-year contract)

[What the role is]

The Health Promotion Board (HPB)’s vision is to make Singapore a nation of healthier people. Come be a part of this journey if you’re passionate about creating boundary-pushing work that drives behavioral change.

HPB is seeking a highly motivated and dynamic candidate to join the Monitoring and Surveillance Department. Contributing to HPB’s goal of being a thought leader in evidence-based public health, you will play a key role in managing HPB’s monitoring and surveillance platforms to ensure a smooth and seamless implementation of population level studies on a continual basis. The aim is to advance data-driven health promotion by integrating monitoring and surveillance with policy and practice at the national level.

[What you will be working on]

As a key member of Monitoring and Surveillance team, you’ll have to be comfortable to put on many hats.

You will help to manage the implementation of national monitoring and surveillance platforms [e.g. National Population Health Survey (NPHS), National Nutrition Survey (NNS)]. This involves working with stakeholders and vendors to ensure the smooth running of these monitoring and surveillance platforms.

You will work on national monitoring and surveillance studies (e.g. NPHS, NNS) and other studies nested via these national monitoring and surveillance platforms]. The work you do will help to ensure high-quality data are captured for national monitoring and surveillance purpose.

You will generate learnings from analysis of data from monitoring and surveillance platforms and other diverse data sources, distil insights and translate findings to practical recommendations to support policy and strategy development for business needs.

You will communicate monitoring and surveillance findings effectively through the use of various techniques (e.g. data visualisation techniques) and good verbal presentation skills to a wide and diverse range of stakeholders.

You will work with matrix cross-functional working teams and contribute to the monitoring and review of HPB’s key health promotion strategies.

[What we are looking for]

An ideal candidate will be a dynamic and self-motivated individual with at least 5 years of relevant working experience. The candidate should also possess:

• •A Degree in Food Science or Nutrition or related disciples
• •Strong project and vendor management skills, and experience in survey management, consultancy or research will be an added advantage
• •The ability to work in a fast-paced, results-oriented matrix organisation, lead and participate in matrix cross-functional working teams
• •Good interpersonal, partner management, influencing and negotiation skills so as to work with a wide spectrum of partners (e.g. academics, partners from public and private sectors)
• •Good analytical skills to enable triangulating of data across diverse data sources, including knowledge and experience in statistical analyses. Familiarity with statistical software such as STATA, SPSS or R will be an added advantage
• •Excellent communication skills (e.g. verbal, written and presentation skills)
• •Intellectually curious, innovative, resourceful and able to implement changes

Successful candidates will be offered a 1-year contract.