Deputy Director (Capability Development, Internationalisation)

About The Job

The Centre for Skills-First Practices aims to build capability and mindshare of stakeholders to articulate, activate, and recognise skills, thereby driving the optimisation of human capital development and realization of human potential in Singapore. 

As Deputy Director (Capability Development, Internationalisation) in Centre for Skills-First Practices, you will play a key role in advancing the adoption of skills-first practices by designing and delivering high-quality capability development programmes, developing and piloting practical tools and solutions, and supporting transformative initiatives with stakeholders.

You will work closely with stakeholders to translate jobs-skills data and workforce transformation concepts or methodologies into practical applications that enable stakeholders adoption. This includes developing scalable capability development models informed by pilot implementations.  You will guide your team in contextualising skills-first concepts and practices for local and global audience, while ensuring exceptional client experience and high delivery standards, particularly for revenue-generating engagements with local and overseas partners/clients.

This role blends programme delivery, client facilitation, stakeholder coordination, and hands-on project execution. It requires a dynamic and self-driven professional with strong programme development, facilitation, communication, and adaptive project delivery skills. You will report to the Director and work closely with other teams within the Centre and external partners in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

What You Will Be Doing

• Design, facilitate, and deliver capability development programmes and workshops for diverse stakeholder groups
• Contextualise and adapt curriculum and facilitation content for different organisational and sectoral contexts
• Support stakeholder engagement and relationship management efforts to ensure strong programme outcomes and participant experience
• Support the development and engagement of communities that encourage collaboration, implementation learning, and the sharing of emerging practices across stakeholders
• Contribute to consultancy and transformation projects that help organisations implement skills-first approaches
• Work with stakeholders, subject matter experts and technology partners to translate complex jobs-skills resources and work transformation pilots into accessible and engaging learning formats
• Execute transformational projects initiatives that embed skills-first approaches and adoption, from project scoping to pilot testing and delivery
• Experiment with new capability development approaches and the development of operational tools, templates, and facilitation materials to improve programme effectiveness
• Evaluate insights from pilot testing and translate them into scalable models for implementation
• Curate and synthesise implementation insights, case examples, and practical resources to support broader stakeholder learning and engagement
• Contribute to the development of reusable digital and knowledge assets that can support wider community learning and scaling efforts
• Support the translation of pilot and implementation insights into ecosystem-level engagement and capability-building initiatives
• Support selected local or regional engagements where relevant, in collaboration with internal teams and partners
• Beyond your core responsibilities, you will contribute to your assigned projects and foster a positive team culture that embraces Care, Openness and Innovation.
• You will also invest in continuous learning to remain adaptable and stay responsive to workforce transformation trends, jobs-skills insights developments, and emerging practices in skills-first workforce development.

Job Requirements

• Consulting and Facilitation: Able to lead strategic conversations, diagnose client needs, and facilitate workshops or training sessions with clarity and confidence, especially in international and multi-stakeholder settings
• Content and Capability Development: Able to guide the development of facilitation materials, templates, and operational tools that translate insights and frameworks into practical applications for capability development
• Curriculum Adaptation and Localisation: Skilled at contextualising training content to different sectoral, organisational, or national contexts using skills-first frameworks
• Stakeholder Engagement: Adept at building rapport and working with partners, clients, and internal teams across levels to co-create solutions and sustain engagement
• Community Building and Ecosystem Engagement: Able to foster collaborative learning environments and build relationships across diverse stakeholder groups to encourage peer exchange, shared problem-solving, and sustained engagement in skills-first practices.
• Innovation and Prototyping: Comfortable testing and iterating new approaches with users or stakeholders and refining models for scale
• Project Coordination and Execution: Strong ability to plan, execute, and manage multiple deliverables and timelines