Assistant Director/Senior Manager (Programme Management), National Robotics Programme (NRP)

Key Responsibilities

• Conceptualise and drive our multi-year strategy for Robotics and Embodied AI, developing collaterals to facilitate discussions within NRPO and external stakeholders to understand different views and align with our objectives and outcomes.
• Includes driving the conversations to enable our leadership and governing board to make informed decisions with regards to NRPO's plans and directions. This involves preparing strategy or funding papers, presentations and staffing notes, as well as to support workplan and strategy reviews within NRPO.
• Conduct analysis of our research capabilities and ecosystem, including benchmarking where possible, taking inputs from policy, tech and data trends, industry sensing and projects, to support strategy development and course corrections where necessary.
• Spearhead the Robotics and Embodied AI roadmapping efforts including refreshing current ones within NRPO, in consultation with the research and industry ecosystem, through workshops, small group discussions, etc, to prioritise and guide our capability building and translational investments and efforts.
• Perform Secretariat functions for Robotics and Embodied AI governing board meetings, including leveraging on external working level platforms to engage stakeholders and key ecosystem players to shape the agenda towards NRPO's mission.
• Be deployed to selective strategic projects to manage, to ensure project cadence, deliverables and outcomes are well aligned with NRPO.
• May be appointed, by rotation, to take on operational/administrative secondary roles within NRPO.