Head/Deputy Head/Assistant Head, RIE Plans

The National Research Foundation (NRF) is a department within the Prime Minister's Office, and we set the national direction for Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) by developing policies, plans and strategies; funding strategic initiatives that strengthen our scientific and technological capabilities, grow our RIE talent base, and achieve economic and national impact; and fostering RIE collaboration in Singapore and internationally. A positive Research Security (RS) environment gives assurance that Singapore institutions can be trusted partners on projects with many different parties, while ensuring that open collaboration and sharing on non-sensitive research and development can occur unimpeded and contribute to knowledge in the public domain. The officer’s responsibility is to develop and strengthen plans and policy for RS in the RIE ecosystem. The incumbent will: • Develop plans and policies to build an RIE ecosystem that can be trusted by multiple different parties to manage sensitive, private and proprietary data and knowhow; • Interface with relevant agencies and international counterparts to communicate Singapore’s plans and policies, as well as learn from the practices of other countries and institutions; • Communicate plans and policies to RIE ecosystem stakeholders, including Institutes of Higher Learning, Research Institutes and companies, to ensure they understand the importance and abide by prevailing plans and policies, as well as to take in their feedback on how to practice good RS; • Collect and analyse data from international and local RIE ecosystems to benchmark and make recommendations on new plans and policies; • Manage RS-related issues for sensitive and important programmes and proposals; and • Perform any functional work necessary for the effective running of NRF (e.g. secretariat and accompanying officer duties and participate in workgroups and committees). Background in science and engineering related disciplines preferred; • Experience in a research environment, or research administration preferred; • Good awareness of current affairs; • Strong analytical abilities with a broad sense of perspective; • Excellent command of written and spoken English; • Excellent inter-personal skills; and • Team-player, meticulous, resourceful, able to work in a fast-paced environment and to perform under pressure.