Assistant Director/Strategic Planning

[What the role is]

As Assistant Director, Strategic Planning, you will play a pivotal leadership role in shaping HSA’s organisational direction, driving enterprise-wide strategic planning processes, and ensuring alignment with the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) and Whole-of-Government (WoG) priorities.

This is a supervisory role where you will lead a small team of officers and work closely with HSA’s senior leadership, divisions, and external stakeholders to translate strategic intent into actionable plans.

[What you will be working on]

Lead and coordinate HSA’s 5-year strategy review process, including the facilitation of strategic conversations with senior leadership and divisional heads, and synthesis of inputs into a coherent organisational strategy.

Lead and coordinate HSA’s annual work planning cycle, including the development of key initiatives in divisions’ workplans, as well as presentations to senior management.

Maintain and manage a consolidated tracker of HSA’s key strategic initiatives, ensuring timely updates from divisional owners and flagging risks or delays to senior management.

Drive horizon scanning, environmental analysis, and foresight exercises to identify emerging trends, risks, and opportunities relevant to the organisation.

Plan and organise townhalls, staff forums, senior management retreats.

Responsible for secretariat duties for senior management meeting platforms, including agenda curation, minutes, and follow-up coordination.

Work closely with the Transformation unit to ensure alignment between strategic planning priorities and ongoing transformation programmes and initiatives.

Supervise, mentor, and develop a team of managers within the Strategic Planning unit. Assign work, review outputs, and provide guidance to ensure quality and timeliness of deliverables. Foster a collaborative and high-performance team culture aligned with HSA’s values.

[What we are looking for]

Background in Public Policy, Business Administration, Health Sciences, or a related discipline.

At least 6–8 years of relevant working experience, with a minimum of 2 years in a supervisory or team leadership capacity.

Proven experience in strategic planning, corporate planning, policy development.

Experience in planning and executing large-scale organisational events such as townhalls, staff forums, or leadership retreats.

Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to distil complex information into clear, actionable insights.

Strong project management and coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and deadlines concurrently.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare high-quality papers and presentations for senior audiences.

Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively across all levels of the organisation and with external partners.

Advantageous:

Familiarity with Singapore’s health regulatory landscape or public health ecosystem.

Experience in or exposure to organisational transformation and change management.

Ability to operate fluidly across planning and transformation functions, adapting to shifting priorities and cross-unit demands.