Manager / Assistant Manager, T-Up

Job Description

A*STAR's Innovation & Enterprise (I&E) Group helps companies turn research into business results.

As part of Singapore's lead public sector R&D agency, we work with local and global businesses to accelerate innovation, scale growth, and strengthen competitiveness in high-value sectors.

I&E enables companies to move faster from lab to market through:

• Partnerships with industry, investors, and researchers to co-develop solutions for real business challenges.
• Licensing and commercialisation of breakthrough technologies and intellectual property into market-ready products and services.
• Venture building that nurtures deep-tech start-ups from early concepts to global growth.

Through I&E, companies gain access to cutting-edge technologies, world-class research talent, and trusted pathways to market—helping them innovate with confidence, compete globally, and create long-term value.

Since 2003, A*STAR's Growing Enterprises through Technology Upgrade (GET-Up) programme has helped our local enterprises to strategise, adopt technologies and upgrade their in-house capabilities. Start your technology and innovation journey with us today through the following initiatives:

• Technology for Enterprise Capability Upgrading (T-Up): Enables companies to tap on A*STAR’s scientific talent pool for development of technical capabilities and new products/services.
• Technical Advisory (TA): Provides technical guidance by A*STAR technical advisors on technology upgrading strategies and competence and knowledge in technical areas.

The Manager/ Assistant Manager plays a critical role in supporting the functions of GET-Up, which includes the following:

• Promote A*STAR research entities and IHLs capabilities and the GET-Up Programme to local enterprises and explore collaborations to enhance their technological capabilities.
• Collaborating with A*STAR's research entities, IHLs and other government agencies to ensure the smooth execution of the GET-Up Programme.
• Disseminate grant calls to local enterprises and administer proposal submissions for relevant reviews by expert panels, councils, etc.
• Assist in the processing of grant applications and claim submissions.
• Establish critical operating systems and processes for the Programme’s functions.
• Establish relevant guidelines in governing grant management and administration.
• Analyse critical statistics and provide critical summary for management’s planning.
• Follow up with relevant grant applicants on LOAs received, ensure T&C of LOAs are complied.
• Follow up with relevant grant applicants on Fund Requisition and Progress Reports.
• Follow up with relevant grant applicants on processing of variation requests of projects.
• Perform proper documentation of critical documents on  approvals, projects, reports, etc.
  
  

Requirements:

• A good knowledge of STEM or life sciences discipline. 
• Experience in a grant management role in a public sector agency would be advantageous.
• Able to work and communicate with public sector partners effectively, and familiar with the work processes in the public sector.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to engage internal and external stakeholders, including research leaders.
• Strong attention to details, e.g., grants terms and conditions
• Good knowledge on software tools such as Words, Excel, PowerPoint etc.
• Good problem solving, analytical and systems thinking abilities.
• Experience in data analytics and visualisation tools (Tableau/Power BI) will be an advantage.
• Resourceful and independent.