Executive, Office for Innovation (Contract)

You will support the Division for Innovation and Transformation (DoIT), and work with internal and external stakeholders to plan and implement projects to bring about seamless patient experience and impactful healthcare innovations.

You will be responsible to provide grant management support as well as administration and secretariat support to the programmes and initiatives under the purview of the Office for Innovation and/or Academic Medicine Innovation Institute (AMII).

Your job responsibilities include:

1. Schedule, prepare and disseminate the publicity emails and materials for the launch of grant calls.
2. Adhere to and execute the grant evaluation processes to ensure fairness in the awarding of the funding.
3. Ensure timely awarding of funding and completion of the grant call.
4. Post-award monitoring of funded projects to track their fulfilment of the milestones and deliverable as well as identify and catalyse worthy innovation projects for further translation through different platforms.
5. Liaise with the co-funders/sponsors of specific grant schemes to ensure all the necessary reports and post-award requests from projects are updated and submitted to the relevant stakeholders and management in a timely manner.
6. Support the division to solicit and apply external funding to support the Innovation domain.
7. Support the formulation and implementation of the various innovation programmes and initiatives under AMII Priority Areas such as culture building and developing, human capital co-development and test bedding, adoption and scaling, as well as emerging technologies and data.
8. Support the organisation of various engagement forums to promote the innovation culture and bring together different stakeholders for potential collaboration opportunities.
9. Support the department in the execution of strategic plans and business process innovation as well as communication of projects to stakeholders.
10. Provide secretariat support during innovation strategy related workgroup meetings, senior management and any other assigned meetings to drive the implementation of projects.
11. Undertake any other ad-hoc duties as assigned by Head of Department (HOD) and/or supervisor.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline, preferably with 1-2 years of relevant working experience.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
• Proficiency in Project Management is an advantage.
• Prior experience in project facilitation, grant administration and management, and business process innovation are added advantages.
• Possess critical thinking skills and willing to think out of the box.
• Adept at handling complex, ambiguous and challenging situations and comfortable with change in a fluid environment and a growing organisation.
• Excellent communication (verbal & written) and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently or with limited supervision.
• An action-oriented, highly motivated and target-focused team player.