Job Description

What the role is
With the increasing use of digital technology and in support of Singapore becoming a Smart Nation, there is an urgent need to ensure the resilience of our critical telecommunications, media and digital infrastructure and systems against physical, digital and cyber threats during both peacetime and period of national emergency. This has taken greater salience given the greatly expanded threat surface posed by increased digitalisation and the adoption of new technologies like 5G and the Internet of Things.
What you will be working on
The key focus of this job is to support the planning of exercises for the MCI family in order to ensure the readiness of the MCI family in responding to physical, digital and cyber threats. This requires the officers to keep up to date with the policy levers and the capabilities within MCI that can be used to deal with such threats. The officer is also expected to keep up to date with new threats and to be able to design exercise scenarios to test MCI family’s ability to respond to such threats. The job holder is expected to not only work with IMDA and CSA, but also with stakeholders from other Ministries (e.g., Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Defence). This officer should have strong polic acumen, write well, have strong stakeholder engagement skills and understand operational needs.
What we are looking for
* Candidate should have experience in the area of policy formulation and familiar with issues related to threats in the digital space. Background in Digital or Cyber Security is preferred but not essential. * At least 5 to 6 years of working experience, preferably in policy making . * Ability to adopt a systems-level approach to issues * Willingness to learn and take on a diverse range of work; able to operate in ambiguous and unstructured work environments * Ability to write and communicate well.