Programme Manager in AI Singapore (Innovation)

About the Role

AI Singapore (AISG) is a national AI programme launched by the National Research Foundation (NRF) to anchor deep national capabilities in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Programme Manager will assist the Head, Talent Operations, AI Innovation in managing and overseeing a series of projects that will impact the AI initiatives within AI Singapore and will be working closely with the AI Innovation Team to facilitate approvals in accordance to the governance structure within AI Singapore. He / She will need to interact with Directors, internal administrative team, professors, external funders and the respective institution’s administrative team.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Work closely with the AI Innovation team and other stakeholders as required.
• Plan, coordinate and communicate programme/project plans, timelines and activities to AI Singapore stakeholders (internal/external).
• Participate in pre-project activities such as estimation of project efforts, preparation of high level project plan with project timeline and resource requirements, and staffing and organisation of AI Singapore team.
• Monitor and track progress of programme/projects and stay on top of the projects to ensure smooth execution.
• Manage and coordinate programme/project deliverables, ensuring their quality and configuration management.
• Manage the reimbursement and disbursement of funds, where applicable.
• Analyse and highlight programme/project risks and develop necessary risk mitigation plans.
• Maintain project issue register to keep close match of the project issues till their resolution.
• Manage stakeholders’ expectations by understanding customers’ needs and providing realistic expectations and scope of the projects for the AI Singapore team to execute upon.
• Provide periodic update on project progress to project sponsors and escalate project issues not resolvable through the AI Singapore committee’s meeting.
• Keep a complete record of all program documentation (minutes, presentations, terms and conditions) to allow for easy and quick extraction for audit purposes.
• Support all auditing requirements for the programmes/projects
• Perform the tasks as per assigned and delegated by the Head, Talent Operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong project management skills, with ability to manage one or more projects concurrently.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, effective in fostering teamwork and managing high performance project team.
• Strong administration skills to management the programmes/projects with proper processes and documentations.
• Experience and background in AI or analytics will be preferred.