Job Description

Location Singapore, Central Singapore

Planning Area
QUEENSTOWN

Job Type
Full Time

Salary
$4,500 - $7,500 Per Month

Date Posted
8 hours ago

Expiry Date
31-Jul-2022
Additional Details


Job ID
286688

Job Views
17

Roles & Responsibilities My Community is a non-profit organisation which conducts community-based participatory research and heritage assessments; establishes community museums, archives and libraries; organises participatory programmes and guided tours; and cocreate community architecture and urban spaces. We seek to preserve our social memories, celebrate our shared culture and heritage and champion greater community involvement in cultural management and urban governance.
Before we were formally registered as a society on 26 August 2010, we started engaging the Queenstown community through befriending in 2006, organising guided tours in 2008 and blogging in 2009. On 12 December 2015, My Community was registered as a charity under the Charities Act. We were then recognised as an Institution of Public Character on 13 December 2016.
Today, My Community boasts almost 500 volunteers. Our first community museum in Queenstown was opened on 31 December 2018.

• A passionate community researcher who is keen to work with the community stakeholders to develop a community-based participatory research model, heritage assessments and other research initiatives. Other key duties include training workshops and community outreach.
• To develop a sustainable and collaborative approach or process in community-based participatory research which involves the Board, volunteers, architects, designers, community stakeholders and clients.
• To co-curate exhibitions and galleries and conduct community-based participatory design workshops with residents and stakeholders.
• To work with clients and government agencies and implement community-based participatory research in the fields of cultural management and urban planning.
• To conduct training workshops for volunteers, community stakeholders and clients on My Community’s community-based participatory research model and other initiatives.
• To collaborate with the government agencies, volunteers and community stakeholders in preparing heritage assessments for intangible and tangible heritage in Singapore.
• To conceptualise, coordinate and prepare heritage research reports, documentation projects, publications and tour brochures.
• To research independently at archives and resource centres and conduct oral history interviews.

• Keen interest in interacting with the community (residents, shopkeepers, students, diverse stakeholders and partners) on arts, culture and heritage.
• Master's Degree in History, Geography, Heritage/Cultural/Museum Studies, Cultural Management, Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture, Urban Studies/Town Planning or related field.
• At least 3 to 5 year experience in research or within the heritage or museum sector.
• Proficient in ArcGIS/Carto/QGIS, Stata and Excel
• Proficient in community and cultural mapping, oral history interviews, surveys, data mapping and archival research
• Keen interest in Singapore's communities, building architecture, neighbourhood planning and layout, and history.
• Ability to speak and write in English and one of the national languages (Chinese, Malay or Tamil) fluently.
• Able to work on either Saturday or Sunday.