Work from Home Assistant Director (Capability Development, Internationalisation) Jobs, in Singapore University Of Social Sciences West Region (Singapore) - Maukerja

About The Job

As Assistant 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 client-facing consultancy initiatives.

You will work closely with local and international 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 contextualise skills-first concepts and practices for diverse countries and sectoral contexts, 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 Deputy Director and work closely with cross-functional team and external partners in a fast-paced, evolving environment

What You Will Be Doing

Capability Development Programmes and Client Engagements

You will represent the Centre and IAL to deliver skills-first related capability development programmes including workshops and consultancy engagements, with a strong focus on revenue-generating engagements for local and overseas clients.

You will:

• Contextualise and adapt curriculum and facilitation content for different country, organisational, and sectoral contexts
• Execute assigned components of overseas programmes to support whole-of IAL’s international engagements
• Ensure high standards of client experience and delivery quality in alignment with programme objectives
• Support the identification and development of overseas client engagements, working closely with IAL’s partnership team to work on strategic cross-border initiatives

Digital Learning and Skills-first Transformation Projects Enablement

You will contribute to the design and development of scalable learning solutions that enable stakeholders to build capability in applying skills-first practices. You will also support the development of practical tools and resources that help organisations implement skills-first practices.

You will:

• Work with 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

Beyond your core responsibilities, you will contribute to your assigned individual or cross-functional projects, and help 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

We’re looking for a dynamic practitioner with strong execution capabilities, stakeholder savvy, and a passion for advancing skills-first transformation.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate the following skills and attributes:

• 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: Proficient in creating 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
• 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

Good to have / Added Advantage

• Experience working with within national agencies (e.g., SSG, WSG) or in international consulting environments involving workforce transformation or capability development
• Familiar with the SkillsFuture ecosystem, including skills frameworks, jobs-skills insights, and the use of data and digitalisation to drive skills-first strategies
• Exposure to areas such as adult learning, curriculum design, or organisational development
• Brings an international or cross-cultural lens to consulting, training, or system-level change, with the ability to adapt approaches across contexts
• Knowledge of service design, agile methods to support iterative prototyping and user-centric programme design