Policy HR Analyst (Lead/Senior) (Benefits)

PSD’s HR Policy cluster is reimagining HR policies for Singapore’s biggest employer – the public service and its 153,000 officers. We’re rethinking how policies, operations and tech could look like for a multi-generational workforce, against the backdrop of career tour-of-duties and tech disruption. Play a driving role in enabling a diverse, flourishing public sector workforce that continues to deliver great policies, initiatives and services, for the next 60 years.

You’ll be part of a dynamic team of policy analysts from various agencies and specialists with experience at organisations such as Accenture, PWC and Kantar, to ensure that our benefits policies (such as medical, leave and awards) don’t just keep pace – they lead the way, balancing innovation with inclusivity to cater to the diverse needs of agencies and a multi-generational workforce. The short feedback loop means that you will land tangible impact, quickly, on the ground.

You will:

• Do the end-to-end of policy development and implementation: From understanding the need, developing policy solutions, operationalising through agencies and systems, closing the feedback loop and refining policies

• Develop deep expertise and specialist knowledge in formulating benefits and recognition packages

• Develop policy acumen for national-level strategic considerations, future needs, economic and manpower trends across the public and private sectors

• Be a thought leader in advocating best practices of how Public Service benefits policies and strategies can evolve to be future-ready

• Forge deep partnerships with key stakeholders, such as HR leaders, agency senior management and HR systems and tech teams, to land your policies

• Manage agencies’ clarifications and requests, and innovate on the operational front through tech, process and policy redesign, to free up time for more impactful work

• Have opportunities for stretch assignments that involve cross-cluster collaboration on areas such as compensation, performance management, talent mobility, ops and tech

Requirements

Strong analytical abilities, data-driven with detail orientation. Comfortable with quantitative analysis, particularly in Excel

• Curiosity about problems and the why, and resourcefulness to navigate the macro context to design and implement effective and timely solutions

• Strong communicator in written, slides and spoken

• Ability to communicate complex issues and policy solutions simply

• Ability to extract and distil complex analysis into key decision points for senior stakeholders

• Willingness and drive to effectively engage a range of stakeholders to ensure that policy is successfully implemented

• Bias for action and relentlessly resourceful in getting things done

• Experience in policy, HR and/or government a plus

• Understanding of tech and innovation a plus

Applicants will typically be notified on whether they are shortlisted or not within 4 weeks of the closing date of the job posting. Successful candidates will be appointed on a 2-year contract in the first instance.