What The Role Is
Plans & Strategy’s role is to prepare HTX for the future by ensuring that our strategic plans are informed by a comprehensive analysis of challenges, opportunities and priorities. The Resources Planning & Organisation oversees the allocation and management of resources in Budget and Manpower, to effect these strategic plans.
The job-holder has to understand the Home Team’s operating context, challenges, constraints and harmonise efforts across all Home Team Departments and agencies and is required to work closely with Senior Management on allocation of resources.
What You Will Be Working On
- Provide sound recommendations to senior management to shape the Home Team Transformation while working on a limited pool of resources. The job-holder will have to conduct trade-off analysis, in order to develop S&T strategies and processes for HTX. This involves evaluating resource requests, developing fundamental working principles, establishing norms and developing an acumen for management assessment over time. This will involve arbitrating and/or leveraging resource requests amongst different parties with divergent interests.
- Specific to organisational structure planning, job grading and evaluation, the jobholder will assess manpower requests put up by the respective Divisions holistically and make suitable recommendations to Senior Management, ensuring that the projected needs are justified and balanced across the organisation.
- He/She will be responsible in maintaining an overview of all manpower establishment and organisational structure matters, and assist in the relevant governance processes. The job-holder will also be involved in job evaluation exercises to establish the job grades when new units/jobs are created or jobs are changed due to restructuring efforts.
- The job holder will have to closely with Dir/DD to engage and understand the diverse needs of stakeholders at various levels of seniority and the ability to pull people together and hold his/her own, when engaging stakeholders with diverging viewpoints.
- Work closely with the HR team to establish and maintain the governance processes for HTX’s organisation structure and staff appointment matters as well as propose suitable enhancements as the organisation evolves.
- The job holder also needs to be meticulous and pay close attention to detail while maintaining a broader strategic perspective and understanding the broader operating context.
What We Are Looking For
- Have at least 3 years of work experience. Prior experience in resource management and manpower planning is preferred.
- Exercise sound judgement to evaluate manpower and establishment requests
- Have a good sense of perspective to understand and balance organisation needs vis-à-vis requirements from HTX pillars
- Provide strategic recommendations to HTX’s senior management
- Have the tenacity and rigor of mind to handle transformation work
- Be adaptable and dynamic as things evolve
- Be a pathfinder and build new structures/processes
- Be a dependable team player/leader who is accommodating and can work with others, because the work scope is fluid and evolves rapidly
- Familiarity with resource management/ governance and organisation structures will be beneficial
All new hires are appointed on a two-year contract in the first instance and will be assessed and considered for permanent tenure over time, based on performance.
As part of the shortlisting process for this role, you may be required to complete a medical declaration and/or undergo further assessment.
All applicants will be updated on the status of their applications within 4 weeks upon closing of the advertisement.
