(Senior/Executive) Manager, Resilience and Cybersecurity Planning

About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and forward-thinking (Senior/Executive) Manager to join our Resilience and Cybersecurity Planning Division. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in establishing Singapore as the global paragon of pragmatic innovation for resilience and cybersecurity of Digital Infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

Proactive Anticipation:

• Conduct wide and regular scans of global, emergent developments in technology, geopolitics, and cyber-threat activities.
• Sense-make trends and derive reasonable hypotheses on impacts, risks, and opportunities for resilience and cybersecurity.
• Implement effective knowledge management and communication strategies to share insights within Government and with Industry.
• Develop and deliver effective 'products' to communicate developments and insights.
• Build partnerships with entities that perform fore-sighting.

Resilience-by-Design and Cybersecurity-by-Design:

• Co-develop ahead-of-time and just-in-case strategies with Government and Industry stakeholders to exploit opportunities and mitigate risks.
• Translate strategies into actionable implementation roadmaps.
• Focus on integrating resilience and cybersecurity up-front into new Digital infrastructure and business processes.
• Experiment with and test blueprints to assess effectiveness and efficiency.
• Adjust strategies and concepts in an agile manner based on "fail-early, fail-cheaply" principles.

Innovative Policies and Regulations:

• Build and leverage relationships within government and with Industry to facilitate "hard conversations".
• Review and adjust principles and considerations behind extant regulations and policies when sensible.
• Clearly staff and seek approval for policy and regulatory changes.
• Communicate intent and specific measures of new policies and regulations.
• Monitor adherence to policy intent during implementation by Industry.

Requirements:

• Background in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Policy Studies, or related disciplines.
• Extensive experience in cybersecurity, digital infrastructure, and policy development.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to sense-make complex trends and derive actionable insights.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to convey complex ideas to diverse audiences.
• Proven track record in strategy development and implementation.
• Experience in building and maintaining partnerships across government and industry sectors.
• Strong project management skills and ability to work in an agile environment.
• In-depth understanding of global technology trends, geopolitics, and cyber threats.