Job Description

What the role is:You lead and supervise a team to engage and motivate MINDEF/SAF personnel to contribute to innovation. This includes designing, measuring, and reviewing the innovation strategy and programmes to strengthen the future of workplace, people capability, and leverage on technology for effective and efficient transformation of daily work processes.What you will be working on:In addition, you develop change management frameworks, implement and review plans to support key change and adoption of innovation initiatives, as well as profile MINDEF/SAF\'s innovation efforts through internal and external publicity and communications channels. Lastly, you conduct research and scans on transformation and innovation trends, methods, and best practices for learning and adoption opportunities, as well as refine and upkeep the management and governance of the innovation fund to enable experimentations, trials, and prototyping of concepts. Your challenge lies in keeping keeping abreast and making sense of new developments and practices in the Public Service, academia, and private sector industries to recommend changes and/or improvements to strategies, initiatives, and practices to better meet organisation\'s innovation needs. You must be the subject matter expert in innovation, Design Thinking, Agile principles, and measurement methodologies for the conduct of innovation programmes, campaigns, and ethnographic research.What we are looking for:You must have a tertiary qualification, preferably with 8 years\' working experience in organisational transformation and innovation, with knowledge in business digitalisation, human-centred design, communications, and change management. You should possess strong project and stakeholder management skills, high business acumen, and empathetic with analytical thinking. You should understand Design and Agile principles, have an iterative approach to all aspects of daily work. You must be able to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment to deliver relevant solutions. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.About MINDEF:The mission of MINDEF and the Singapore Armed Forces is to enhance Singapore\'s peace and security through deterrence and diplomacy, and should these fail, to secure a swift and decisive victory over the aggressor. The Defence Executive Officer (DXO) scheme is the non-uniformed career scheme of MINDEF that offers myriad opportunities in various job functions, such as corporate communications, cyber security, data analytics and visualisation, defence policy, finance, HR, psychology, and more. Embodying the same level of commitment towards defence, DXOs work together with their military counterparts to contribute to MINDEF/SAF\'s mission and ensure Singapore\'s security and stability. United by this common cause, our lines of defence complement each other to secure the prosperity and progress of our nation.

Ministry of Defence