Manager/SeniorManager,PeopleDevelopment

**[What the role is]** This role sits at the intersection of strategic workforce planning and operational excellence, driving the development, implementation, and evaluation of workforce policies that strengthen the social service sector's manpower capabilities. The role will shape sector-wide manpower strategies — translating complex workforce challenges into actionable policies and initiatives — while ensuring rigorous execution that delivers measurable impact on the sector's ability to attract, develop, and retain talent. The role plays a central part in strengthening the sector's talent pipeline, leading outreach and engagement efforts that position social service as a compelling career destination for potential entrants, students, and mid-career switchers. It partners with SSAs and IHLs to co-create and amplify attraction strategies, ensuring outreach efforts are audience-appropriate, evidence-informed, and aligned with broader sector branding. **[What you will be working on]** **Manpower Pipeline Development and Scheme Management** * Design and implement strategies and initiatives to build a sustainable manpower pipeline for the social service sector, grounded in rigorous research and analysis of manpower trends, labour market conditions, and workforce demographics. * Develop a deep understanding of the social service landscape, including the needs and perspectives of key target audiences — potential entrants, SSAs, and social service professionals — and translate these insights into evidence-based approaches to pipeline development. * Manage manpower schemes end-to-end, encompassing the full scope of talent recruitment, programme management, and manpower development. * Identify gaps in the pipeline across different talent segments and develop targeted interventions to address them, including policies spanning recruitment, retention, career development, and performance management. * Ensure schemes are well-administered, outcomes-focused, and continuously impro