Senior/Principal Specialist, Community & Partnership

Are you passionate about enhancing workers’ employment and employability? Can you connect workers with employers through job-matching, career guidance, and skills upgrading? Ready to collaborate on recruitment, training, and job redesign to support nationwide skills development?

If your answers are “yes”, we want you to join us and make a significant impact on the employment and employability landscape today!

We are seeking a highly effective Senior/Principal Specialist, Community & Partnership to join our Jobseeker Group in our department dedicated to employment and employability!

In this role, you will support NTUC’s sub-department. You will be involved in the creation, development and delivery of integrated job matching and skill training solutions. You will need to constantly equip yourself with a broad knowledge of hiring industries and upcoming trends in the labour market.

Some of your core responsibilities will include reaching out to jobseekers, working closely with them and forging strong partnerships with training and community partners.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop new and deepen current partnerships opportunities with communities, institutions, and groups to reach out to workers, understanding their career needs and matching them to relevant employment and employability services and resources.
• Project manage career initiatives such as organising job placement events, skills workshops, and employment activities.
• Provide employment facilitation assistance to jobseekers including sourcing of job vacancies, profiling of jobseekers, and referring jobseekers to suitable training.
• To match and market jobs to candidates and candidates to jobs.

Job Requirements

• Passionate about helping Singaporeans to find employment and enhance their employability.
• Self-initiated to drive process productivity, improvements, and capabilities development.
• Driven and able to contribute independently while working together with others.
• Innovative and able to adapt to changing circumstances.
• Team player with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Able to relate to all levels of jobseekers/working people and cultivate strong relationships with partners.
• Strong project management skills in conceptualisation, implementation, evaluation, and engagement with stakeholders.
• Experience in business development/project management/programme development will be advantageous.
• Flexible to accommodate to adjusted work schedules, evenings, and weekends when required to serve workers / jobseekers needs; in which time off will be offered.

Working Location: Jurong East, Devan Nair Institute

Designation and salary will commensurate with experience.

We will only contact shortlisted candidates.