Job Description

What the role is:
Join us in shaping the future of career development. We are seeking a proactive and dynamic Senior Manager to design impactful training programmes and initiatives that empower career professionals to grow and thrive in today's evolving landscape.
What you will be working on:
Job Responsibilities
Curriculum Development and Innovation

• Design cutting-edge training programmes and curriculum that align with organisational objectives and cater to diverse audiences.
• Integrate emerging career development trends, technology, and teaching methodologies into curricula and course design to enhance learner outcomes.
• Drive continuous improvement through research, analysis, and creative problem-solving approaches.
• Research and review framework and curricula, adopting a strategic approach to ensure alignment with national standards and best practices.
• Design metrics and assessment tools to evaluate training program effectiveness and recommend improvements or updates of training materials and teaching aids, ensuring continuous development of engaging content.
• Propose new course content, instructional materials, and learning activities that are relevant, engaging and innovative.
• Ensure curricula meet accreditation requirements, regulatory standards and institutional policies.

Content Creation & Resource Repository Management

• Research, develop and maintain engaging content including articles, toolkits, and multimedia resources for community digital platforms, ensuring materials are current, relevant, and aligned with capability development objectives.
• Establish and maintain organised digital repositories and knowledge management systems, ensuring easy access, searchability, and regular updates to support ongoing community learning and development needs.

Project Management

• Manage multiple projects from initiation through completion, including project planning, coordinating project activities, and managing resource and stakeholders to effectively ensure successful delivery within scope, time, and budget constraints.
• Develop proposals and create presentation materials.
• Proactively identify potential project challenges and independently implement solutions to ensure smooth project progress.
• Track project timelines, milestones and deliverables.

Training Delivery and Facilitation

• Facilitate interactive learning experiences through online, hybrid, and in-person delivery modes.
• Create engaging learning environments and utilise new teaching tools or technologies to enhance learners' knowledge, practical skills, and professional capabilities.
• Apply adult learning principles and adapt training delivery style to meet diverse learning preferences and group dynamics.
• Evaluate the career development landscape and keep abreast of industry practices and standards.
• Evaluate training effectiveness through participant feedback and performance assessments.

What we are looking for:
Job Requirements
At least 6 years of relevant and demonstrated experience, preferably in curriculum development and implementation.
You should possess the following skill sets:

• Curriculum development & content creation: Proficiency in content creation, including designing learner guides, training materials, and digital resources.
• Project management: Proven ability to manage multiple end-to-end projects, including planning, execution, and evaluation. Strong project management skills to track timelines, milestones, and deliverables while ensuring timely execution and quality standards.
• Training & facilitation: ACTA/ACLP certified with at least 3 years of experience facilitating adult learning and conducting assessments. Strong understanding of adult learning principles with ability to adapt training content for online, hybrid, and in-person delivery modes.
• Industry & research expertise: Strong understanding of career development and workforce dynamics with ability to conduct research and transform complex findings into practical, innovative learning solutions that drive measurable outcomes.
• Stakeholder management: Able to engage professionally across all organisational levels and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Written and verbal communications: Proficient in writing clear submissions and reports, and frame appropriate narratives to effectively engage different target audiences.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving: Able to analyse industry practices and standards to draw insights, recommend content refinements and identify practical solutions.
• Personal effectiveness: Able to adapt agilely and manage multiple tasks in a dynamic, fast-paced environment while responding to shifting priorities and adjusting project plans. Works effectively both independently and in teams.

Additional professional certification/training:

• Certification in instructional design or adult learning (e.g. DACE/DDDLP) is an advantage.
• Certification and/or experience in career development facilitation, human resource, psychology, counselling and/or coaching.

About Workforce Singapore:
Workforce Singapore (WSG) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Manpower (MOM). It will oversee the transformation of the local workforce and industry to meet ongoing economic challenges. WSG will promote the development, competitiveness, inclusiveness, and employability of all levels of the workforce. This will ensure that all sectors of the economy are supported by a strong, inclusive Singaporean core. While its key focus is to help workers meet their career aspirations and secure quality jobs at different stages of life, WSG will also address the needs of business owners and companies by providing support to enable manpower-lean enterprises to remain competitive. It will help businesses in different economic sectors create quality jobs, develop a manpower pipeline to support industry growth, and match the right people to the right jobs

Skills Required