Manager, Healthy Food & Dining (1 year contract)

[What the role is]

Join us at the Forefront of Shaping Healthier Lives

The Health Promotion Board's vision is to make Singapore a nation of healthier people.Come be a part of this journey if you're passionate about creating boundary-pushing work that drives behavioural change.

You will be a part of HPB's Healthy Food & Dining (HFD) team, which strives to design, develop, and implement various strategies to make healthier food and drink options more widespread and accessible. Working with food manufacturers, retailers and F&B partners, we create a supportive environment through sustainable health promotion policies and programmes such as the Healthier Ingredients & Development Scheme (HIDS), Healthier Choice Symbol (HCS), Healthier Dining Programme (HDP), and Healthier Meals in School Programme (HMSP). Additionally, HFD aims to change Singaporeans eating habits through public education campaigns, large-scale promotions, and engagements via offline and online channels, such as the Eat Drink Shop Healthy Challenge, to reduce the burden of obesity in Singapore.

[What you will be working on]

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

As a member of the Healthy Food & Dining team, you are to manage food grant schemes that will influence the national strategies towards helping Singapore residents to make healthier dietary choices.

Your role entails handling end-to-end grant management, which includes reviewing grant applications based on grant criteria, maintaining relevant documents, monitoring project progress and impact. You have to work with the administration team to process grant payments, and close off grant projects. You will also present grant proposals to the internal evaluation committee. You will do data collection and research, conduct performance analysis and recommend areas for improvement or expansion of grant categories. You will be responsible for organising events to promote healthier ingredients with partners at F&B settings.

You will act as the business consultant to :

• Engage internal and external stakeholders to ensure the robustness of the grant schemes during its development and reviews

• Develop, implement and review the business grant schemes through working with businesses to incorporate healthier food options into their business model

• Establish, monitor and manage processes for business grant schemes, review and tracking, governance and audit to ensure its continued sustainability and success

[What we are looking for]

BE PART OF THE TEAM

Join us if you are detail-oriented, process-driven, and a dynamic team player. Together with other team members, you are also expected to drive key projects and initiatives and have a strong sense of initiative and business ownership.

You should also possess the followings:

• At least 3 to 5 years of experience in project management or large-scale programme administration roles, with proven experience and ability in the administration of grants, business operations, or similar large-scale partnership programmes, and in managing vendors or contractors.

• Experience in new product development for consumer-packaged foods or in food service, food nutrition/ science related projects would be an advantage.

• Possess strong relational and project management skills, be able to influence and effect change, garner resources, and manage people and projects independently.

In addition, having relevant qualifications in Dietetics, Food Nutrition, Food Science and Technology, or any related discipline/relevant experience will be an added advantage.