Overview
Analyst, Policy Development & Evaluation (1-year contract) Jobs in Singapore, Singapore at Verian Group
Title: Analyst, Policy Development & Evaluation (1-year contract)
Company: Verian Group
Location: Singapore, Singapore
At Verian, we work across the public realm (i.e., governments and the third sector) to offer evidence-driven solutions to create a positive impact to society and people’s lives. If you have a flair for social research and consultancy, are keen to apply your skills to address challenging (often sensitive) human issues, this could be your opportunity.
Verian is looking for an Analyst to join our Policy Development & Evaluation team. The successful candidate will need to be excited about policy research, complex evaluation projects, and be able to handle multiple tasks and work to tight deadlines. In return for passion and hard work, we strive to provide our employees with a fulfilling and rewarding career in research and consulting.
Responsibilities:
- Client servicing: Support the team in understanding of client contexts, decision environments, and policy challenges. Contribute to client discussions, project meetings, workshops, and presentations through preparation of materials, note-taking, and follow-up actions.
- End-to-end project coordination: Support day-to-day project delivery, including tracking timelines, coordinating fieldwork, managing project documents, arranging meetings, and helping ensure that deliverables are prepared accurately and on time.
- Literature reviews: Source for and synthesise evidence from secondary sources (e.g. academic literature, published reports, published data) to offer clear and concise summaries of existing research and inform research questions/ gaps. Be able to identify reliable versus unreliable sources to ensure that references are high quality.
- Policy Research & Evaluation Design: Support the development of research frameworks, theory of change, evaluation design, research instruments, and analytical plans under the guidance of senior team members.
- Mixed-methods Research: Support in the planning and conduct of qualitative and quantitative research.
- Impact Evaluation & Analytical Methods: Support evaluation projects by helping to develop indicators, prepare datasets, conduct basic analysis, review evidence, and document findings. Learn to apply more advanced evaluation approaches where relevant and appropriate.
- Facilitation & Stakeholder Engagement: Support the design, organisation and conduct of engagements such as interviews, focus groups and workshops. Assist with discussion guides, logistics, moderation support, documentation, and synthesis of stakeholder inputs.
- Craft evidence-driven narratives for reports: Help connect evidence and data sources to prepare clear, concise, and impactful reports, presentations, and workshop materials. Support the translation of findings into practical implications and recommendations.
- Capability-building and proposal-writing: Support the preparation of capability-building materials, proposals, credentials, case studies, and thought pieces that strengthen Verian’s reputation in policy development, evaluation, and applied social research.
Key Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree/ Master’s Degree, preferably in Psychology, Economics, Sociology, Public Policy, Political Science, or any other related disciplines.
- Prior experience in quantitative data analysis of individual-level data, using R, Python or SPSS.
- Knowledge of impact measurement (e.g., programme outcome frameworks, logic models/ theories of change) and/ or impact evaluation techniques (e.g., difference-in-differences, propensity score matching).
- Strong knowledge and interest in policy issues with experience in applied research to solve in real-world challenges.
- Have excellent verbal and written communication skills – and be interested in honing them further.
- Organised, meticulous, able to multi-task, respond quickly and work at pace when required.
- Be a strong team player – interested in working with and learning from others for high quality outcomes, keen to have a laugh and enjoy your colleagues, and relish the opportunity to contribute to a growing, inter-disciplinary team.
- Bilingual – English and mother tongue (Chinese/Malay/Tamil).
- Must be a Singapore citizen or PR, currently residing in Singapore.
- Ideally able to start as early as August 2026.
Preferred skillsets/ qualities:
- Possess hands-on experience in statistical analysis and techniques (e.g., cluster analysis, econometrics, text analytics).
- Empathetic and conversational – enjoy interacting with different stakeholders to understand their perspectives, concerns and expectations.
- Genuine interest in issues facing the public sector and desire to make a positive social impact.
- Intrinsically curious, self-motivated and able to ask critical questions and dig deeper into literature/ data to discover more about problems, target audiences and behaviours.
- Ambitious and interested in innovation and creative thinking – excited by learning curves and being challenged.
- Care about quality and ‘getting it right’ – taking pride in doing great work.
- A natural problem-solver who is self-motivated and has a passion for learning.
About Verian
Verian is a world leading, independent research, evidence, evaluation, and communications agency, providing services to government and the public realm. We work with our clients to help solve the next generation of public policy challenges.
Combining expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies and data science, our work with clients creates policy interventions, designs better public services, and unlocks behaviour change. We bring global best practice and local expertise.
Visit Verian Group website for more information.
