Role and Responsibilities
- Lead sectoral skills and capability strategy in close partnership with the Executive Director, ensuring SDP initiatives are aligned with SGTech's organisational objectives, long-term priorities, and sector transformation needs.
- Provide leadership, coaching, and oversight of SGTech's talent and development teams, ensuring highperformance standards, effective collaboration, and consistent delivery of organisationwide workforce and capability initiatives.
- Manage team to develop and sectorwide skills and workforce strategies aligned to national priorities and emerging industry needs.
- Identify priority and emerging skills through industry sensing, stakeholder engagement, and review of jobsskills trends.
- Translate jobsskills insights into sectorrelevant frameworks, priorities, and advisory guidance for employers.
- Engage employers and convene sectorlevel advisory platforms to identify skills and capability gaps, validate training needs, and inform workforce transformation priorities.
- Drive the development of sustainable workforce pipelines that enable longterm sector growth.
- Oversee industry adoption of skillsbased practices, including skillsbased role design, progression pathways, and the use of recognised credentials and training pathways.
- Lead engagements with government agencies, industry leaders, employers, and training partners in support of Skills Development Partner (SDP) objectives.
- Set outcome measures and oversee impact tracking and reporting to inform strategic decisions and shape subsequent initiatives.
- Drive project management for talent and skills initiatives including funding and resource allocation in line with agreed priorities and outcomes.
- Oversee sector talent development and reskilling initiatives to ensure alignment with workforce strategies, skills priorities, and approved funding objectives.
Qualifications and Skills Requirements
- At least 6 years of relevant experience in workforce strategy, skills development, industry transformation, or related fields.
- Demonstrated experience in strategy formulation, advisory work, or framework development within multistakeholder or sectorlevel contexts.
- Strong understanding of jobsskills dynamics, workforce transformation, and continuing education and training ecosystems.
- Experience engaging senior stakeholders across government, industry, and training providers.
- Ability to translate complex workforce and skills challenges into structured, actionable insights.
- Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, and executive communication skills.
- Proven leadership capability with experience guiding teams and portfolios at a strategic level.
- Preferably with experience in ICT or technologyenabled sectors, including exposure to digital skills, emerging technologies, or techdriven workforce transformation.
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