Description
Role Purpose
The Deputy Director (DD), Government Incident Reporting Ops, leads a high-performing operational team responsible for centralizing, assessing, and managing the full spectrum of Whole-of-Government (WOG) incident reports across all Singapore Government agencies.
The scope of coverage is multi-disciplinary, encompassing cybersecurity/data incidents, physical security breaches, public-facing service disruptions, and general operational failures. The DD ensures swift severity assessment, accurate fact-gathering, and seamless leadership escalation, while driving a WOG continuous learning culture to prevent systemic recurrence.
Key Responsibilities
Multi-Domain Operational Leadership
- Lead daily operations for the WOG Incident Reporting framework, ensuring all submissions across cyber, physical, and operational domains are triaged and validated accurately.
- Demonstrate sharp acumen to make critical judgment calls on complex, multi-domain incidents, ensuring appropriate escalation and containment strategies are triggered according to SOPs.
- Review and refine high-quality, high-stakes incident summaries and assessments for senior leadership presentation under tight timelines.
Process Optimization & Culture Building
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to streamline the reporting workflow, leveraging technology to make reporting frictionless and encourage timely submissions from all agencies.
- Foster a "Just Culture" across the public service, prioritizing psychological safety so agencies report incidents transparently without fear of blame.
WOG Knowledge Management & Continuous Learning
- Transform diverse incident data into actionable insights, identifying trends and cross-domain vulnerabilities.
- Develop effective mechanisms (e.g., cross-agency sharing sessions, post-incident reviews, systemic playbooks) to ensure lessons are institutionalized WOG.
Talent Development
- Mentor and develop team officers, uplifting their technical literacy across different incident domains and honing their analytical capabilities.
Requirements & Qualifications
Technical & Domain Knowledge (Critical)
- Cross-Domain Literacy: Strong foundational knowledge across IT infrastructure, Cybersecurity operations, and Physical Security frameworks. Must be able to speak the language of both tech engineers and physical security teams.
- Incident Triage Expertise: Familiarity with incident classification models, threat landscapes, and standard risk matrix frameworks across both digital and physical environments.
Professional Experience
- Experience in Large-Scale Operations: At least 8 years of professional experience managing complex operations, incident response, crisis management, or operational risk.
- Organizational Scale: Proven track record of navigating and operating effectively within large, complex organizations (e.g., Multi-National Corporations (MNCs), major financial institutions, critical infrastructure operators, or public sector agencies).
- Stakeholder Management: Demonstrated ability to manage diverse, high-level stakeholders and navigate matrixed organizational structures or multi-party ecosystems.
- Public Sector Familiarity (Preferred but not mandatory): Prior experience within the Singapore Public Service, or a strong conceptual understanding of Whole-of-Government (WOG) governance structures and inter-agency dynamics, is highly advantageous. Private sector candidates with a strong adaptability to public sector governance are welcome to apply.
- Process Improvement: Experience in operations design or process optimization (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma, Agile) to simplify reporting workflows and drive efficiency.
Critical Skills & Competencies
- Executive Communication: Exceptional command of written and spoken English. Ability to translate highly technical, ambiguous, or complex incidents (like a zero-day exploit or a complex supply-chain failure) into concise, plain-language briefs for senior management.
- High-Stakes Diplomacy: Ability to manage sensitive conversations with senior agency leaders, challenging an agency’s self-assessment firmly but tactfully to ensure proper treatment.
- Data Analytics & Pattern Recognition: Ability to look beyond individual incidents to identify systemic clusters or root causes across the government ecosystem.
Key Personal Attributes
- Mental Agility & Resilience: Thrives in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment where variables change rapidly during concurrent crises.
- Emotional Intelligence (EQ): Essential for building trust with stressed reportees during an ongoing incident.
- Uncompromising Integrity: Absolute discretion in handling highly sensitive, restricted, or politically charged information.
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