Workforce 4.0 Research/Policy Intern (Dec 2024)

Your role

About Workforce 4.0 Team:

Workforce 4.0 enables Temasek’s ecosystem (which consists of the Temasek Portfolio Companies and value chain partners) and enhances the human capital journey to achieve long-term sustainable business growth. The team is guided by the key principles of:

• Understanding and addressing workforce-related issues from tripartite stakeholders
• Leveraging Temasek’s central awareness, networks, and eco-system, to derive aggregated solutions with horizontal effects
• Creating a catalytic effect for the Temasek ecosystem

The team leverages Temasek’s ecosystem footprint, Centres of Excellence, as well as catalytic capital to engage, enable, and effect (a change). Examples of various initiatives include:

• Gathering strategic insights on emerging trends, exploring implications to the workforce, and developing strategies and thought leadership on human capital perspectives; and
• Supporting proactive ecosystem engagement through increasing awareness, identifying gaps, and co-curating actionable solutions.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Research emerging trends, and strategic and policy issues that impact the workforce in Temasek’s ecosystem
• Conceptualise, validate, and stress-test proposals/ideas; as well as
• Develop a roadmap for implementation
• Support strategy development and operationise workstreams
• Inter alia, support implementation of Temasek Tripartite Conversations (content development and stakeholder management)
• Support the planning, organization, and management of engagement and networking platforms  

About you

Qualifications/requirements 

• Currently pursuing a Degree in HR, Humanities/Social Sciences, International Relations, Public Policy, Law, Business Management, Economics, Environmental Sciences or related fields 
• Relevant internship experience in government/trade relations or public policy would be a plus 

Benefits

Temasek offers a wide range of employee benefits, which include:

• Career development and personal wellness programs.
• Family-friendly initiatives help staff to achieve their career and personal aspirations.
• Classes on meditation, stress management, and fitness activities to support them in managing their well-being.
• Flexible work arrangements.

Training & development

Temasek places a strong emphasis on developing and deepening its capabilities, and ensuring its talent remains relevant for today and tomorrow. Their ‘4Es’ talent framework incorporates development programs and opportunities for its staff to gain Experience, Exposure, Education, and Enrichment. They encourage mobility as a way of developing their talent to acquire multidisciplinary domains and these include job rotations to different teams, overseas assignments, stints in portfolio companies, stretch assignments, mentoring, coaching, etc.

The incumbent will be able to gain the following competencies:

• Research and analytical skills 
• Stakeholder engagement 
• Specific domain knowledge, e.g. workforce development, AI/digital, sustainability, energy
• Effective communication through presentation materials 
• Events management 

Career progression

Through this program, you will be immersed in the role of a generational investor working on real business challenges as well as ongoing business projects, and be a step closer to securing a full-time opportunity with Temasek. 

Sources

• temasek.com.sg/en/about-us/careers#internships
• temasek.com.sg
• youtube.com