Manager, Planning
Manager, Planning
Overview
The Consortium for Clinical Research and Innovation, Singapore (CRIS) brings together six national R&D, clinical translation and service programmes to advance clinical research and innovation for Singapore and establish important capabilities for a future-ready healthcare system. The Business Entities under CRIS include:
- Singapore Clinical Research Institute (SCRI)
- National Health Innovation Centre (NHIC)
- Advanced Cell Therapy and Research Institute, Singapore (ACTRIS)
- Precision Health Research, Singapore (PRECISE)
- Singapore Translational Cancer Consortium (STCC)
- Cardiovascular Disease National Collaborative Enterprise (CADENCE)
Together, CRIS makes a positive difference to Singapore patients and researchers by ensuring that these clinical research platforms and programmes are at the cutting edge of capability development and innovation. If you are as passionate as we are in clinical trials and research, we want you!
Manager, Planning
CRIS is looking for a Manager to be part of the dynamic and efficient administrative team to support the strategic planning function of CRIS and its Business Units.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Working with key stakeholders in CRIS and the Business Units to ensure smooth planning and execution of the organisation’s key goals
- Be involved in developing key initiatives and governance frameworks within CRIS and the Business Units to support the healthcare ecosystem in Singapore
- Able to engage and influence stakeholders to understand needs and deliver on outcomes
- Handle administrative support tasks as part of the CRIS Planning function, including but not limited to working with other corporate functions within the organisation for budget planning, risk management and drafting of funding papers and communicating initiatives to internal and external stakeholders
- For CRIS Board meetings and other selected meetings, plan and take on a secretariat role, which includes managing relevant approval processes, coordinating meeting schedules of attendees, consolidating meeting agenda and materials, recording of minutes, tracking of task deadlines and matters arising and manage other logistics arrangements necessary to ensure a successful and seamless meeting
- Track performance measures for key initiatives and manage periodic reports to the management and stakeholders
- Take part in ad-hoc planning tasks as required by the management
- Able to work flexibly and adjust to changes in deliverables
Requirements
- Possess at least a Bachelor's degree in a scientific discipline or healthcare
- 3-5 years relevant experience in scientific planning and administrative roles
- Excellent communication (both verbal and written) and interpersonal skills, experience with meeting secretariat function is advantageous
- Excellent organisational and multi-tasking skills
- Prior experience managing funding initiatives and report writing
- Able to work independently and as a team in a fast-paced environment
- Able to complete quality work within tight deadlines
- Able to participate actively and capture key points in complex discussions and organise them into structured work flow processes
- Detailed-oriented, well organised and resourceful
- Highly competent in Microsoft Office applications, e.g. MS Powerpoint, MS Word and MS Excel
- Positive learning attitude with a pleasant personality
What you need to know
Successful candidate will be offered a 3-year renewable contract. For more information about CRIS and the Business Entities, visit our websites below:
- CRIS – https://www.cris.sg
- SCRI – https://www.scri.edu.sg
- NHIC – https://www.nhic.sg
- ACTRIS – https://www.actris.sg
- PRECISE – https://www.npm.sg
- STCC – https://www.stcc.sg
- CADENCE – https://www.cris.sg/our-programmes/cadence/