About the role
The National Robotics Programme Office (NRPO) is responsible for catalysing differentiated Robotics and Embodied AI R&D capabilities in Singapore. This role involves supporting grant administration, coordinating evaluation processes, maintaining programme data, managing procurement, and handling ad-hoc tasks.
ResearchOnsiteNational Robotic Programme
Key Responsibilities
- Support the administration of grants and programme operations across the grant lifecycle, including application processing, documentation checks, tracking of submissions, disbursements, reporting milestones, and record maintenance.
- Serve as a point of contact for operational queries from applicants, researchers, companies, partner agencies, and internal stakeholders.
- Assist in coordinating grant evaluation and governance processes, including meeting scheduling, agenda preparation, collation of papers, minute-taking, follow-up tracking.
- Maintain accurate programme and grant data in internal systems, trackers, and dashboards, and support basic analysis and reporting.
- Manage goods receipt and procurement requests for the team, ensuring compliance, accuracy, and timely fulfilment.
- Handle other ad-hoc tasks as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Public Administration, Communications, Social Sciences, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Entry-level candidates are welcome. Candidates with 1-3 years of relevant experience in programme administration, grants administration, operations, or public-sector support functions will have an advantage.
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and timelines.
- Comfortable working with administrative processes, data tracking, and documentation.
- A proactive and responsible team player who is willing to learn and able to work in a structured but sometimes fast-paced environment.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (particularly Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams).