Senior/Assistant Director, Energy Markets and Infrastructure Division
What The Role Is
MTI’s Energy Markets and Infrastructure Division plays a key role in ensuring Singapore’s energy security and creating an energy system that is resilient, cost-competitive, and ready to transition to a low carbon future.
Energy security is an existential issue for Singapore. We import almost all our energy supply and are exposed to global energy market movements. The energy crisis after COVID and the war in Ukraine have upended the global energy ecosystem. The climate crisis compels all countries to accelerate their pace of decarbonisation, even as they struggle with energy costs and unpredictable supply chain shocks.
Amidst this backdrop, Singapore needs a stable, reliable, and cost competitive energy system that keeps the lights on and safeguards our economic competitiveness and dynamism.
What You Will Be Working On
MTI’s Energy and Carbon (E&C) Cluster leads initiatives to reduce emissions and drive the transition to a low-carbon economy, while ensuring energy security and cost-competitiveness, and enabling Singapore to sustain economic growth. Officers in this cluster develop energy and carbon markets, plan energy infrastructure, build Singapore’s capabilities to harness low-carbon energy sources, and manage emission trajectories and carbon budgets. You will collaborate with stakeholders across Government, industry, and international partners to support sustainable economic transformation and green growth through strategic planning, policy analysis, and partnerships.
The Energy Markets and Infrastructure Division within the E&C Cluster takes the lead in:
We are looking for driven and capable individuals who thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, have a keen interest in energy markets and policies, are adept at working with multiple stakeholders within and outside the public sector, and are equipped with the following qualities and competencies:
MTI’s Energy Markets and Infrastructure Division plays a key role in ensuring Singapore’s energy security and creating an energy system that is resilient, cost-competitive, and ready to transition to a low carbon future.
Energy security is an existential issue for Singapore. We import almost all our energy supply and are exposed to global energy market movements. The energy crisis after COVID and the war in Ukraine have upended the global energy ecosystem. The climate crisis compels all countries to accelerate their pace of decarbonisation, even as they struggle with energy costs and unpredictable supply chain shocks.
Amidst this backdrop, Singapore needs a stable, reliable, and cost competitive energy system that keeps the lights on and safeguards our economic competitiveness and dynamism.
What You Will Be Working On
MTI’s Energy and Carbon (E&C) Cluster leads initiatives to reduce emissions and drive the transition to a low-carbon economy, while ensuring energy security and cost-competitiveness, and enabling Singapore to sustain economic growth. Officers in this cluster develop energy and carbon markets, plan energy infrastructure, build Singapore’s capabilities to harness low-carbon energy sources, and manage emission trajectories and carbon budgets. You will collaborate with stakeholders across Government, industry, and international partners to support sustainable economic transformation and green growth through strategic planning, policy analysis, and partnerships.
The Energy Markets and Infrastructure Division within the E&C Cluster takes the lead in:
- Planning for Singapore’s energy transition and resilience, including energy demand and supply and the corresponding impact on infrastructure requirements, system costs and electricity prices.
- Strengthening Singapore’s gas and electricity markets and our national grid infrastructure
- Developing horizontal enablers for the energy sector e.g. manpower and skills development, energy public engagement strategy.
Your responsibilities include one or more of the following workstreams: - Formulate robust strategies and policies to regulate and develop the gas and electricity sectors. This involves working with key stakeholders to develop and implement regulatory and market structures, to strike a balance among our objectives of economic competitiveness, energy security and environmental sustainability.
- Formulate and review strategies and policies to enhance our energy security by diversifying Singapore’s energy sources, including those for electricity and gas imports.
- Formulate and review policies and strategies to develop supporting enablers for the electricity and gas sectors, including infrastructure and financing.
- Develop and implement communications and engagement plans to support electricity and gas market changes.
- Monitor developments in global energy markets and analyse implications for domestic energy policies.
We are looking for driven and capable individuals who thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, have a keen interest in energy markets and policies, are adept at working with multiple stakeholders within and outside the public sector, and are equipped with the following qualities and competencies:
- Strong analytical skills
- 0 to 6 years of relevant experience in policy-related work, sustainability and energy-related fields
- Ability to pick up new content areas quickly, and assimilate knowledge from a wide variety of sources to provide policy recommendations
- Comfortable working with a wide range of stakeholders, both within and beyond the public service, which requires strong interpersonal, organisational and communication skills
- Ability to work well both independently and as part of a team
- Be driven, meticulous and resourceful