This role resides in NTUC's Industrial Relations & Analysis Department. You will be part of the research and analysis team that:

Generates actionable insights of patterns, trends, opportunities, and threats that may impact the Singapore's workforce.
Formulates and presents data-driven options for the business units and front-line officers decisions in areas of policy and industrial relations, that would best secure and advance workers interest.

Responsibilities

Conduct studies into specific labour issues and/or ad hoc studies as required, to identify trends, threats and opportunities in the IR and labour landscape.
Continuously innovate new data collection processes and research methodologies and build up new information-sources through proactive engagements with internal and external stakeholders.
Crawl publicly available open-source content using advanced data crawling and mining techniques.
Oversee, plan, maintain and track clean data to be used for data analysis.
Support management on regular reports, topical presentations and emerging IR issues and gaps, including monitoring and tracking IR statistics.
Organise and support annual corporate planning sessions to conceptualise overall workplan for the department, provide analysis and insights to support and guide management in decision-making.

Requirements

At least 6-8 years of working experience in Industrial Relations (IR) and/or Human Resource (HR), with background in research, statistics and/ or econometrics, including demonstrated leadership or people management experience.
Strong attention to details and keen interest in advancing workers interests through data-driven analysis.
Keen interest in current affairs, and in tune with prevailing labour, social, economic and industry trends.
Strong analytical and conceptual abilities, with an eye for detail.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills to engage internal and external stakeholders.
Experience in data science, visualisation, and storytelling, including the use of tools such as R, Python and/or PowerBI is preferred.
Ability to interpret complex information and data collected to prepare comprehensive reports for stakeholders.

Assistant Director, Industrial Relations & Analysis