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NCSS Interns

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What the role is:The National Council of Social Service (NCSS) has been leading the way in driving change and progress in the social service sector. In recent years,NCSS has expanded its role to identify gaps, fund critical services, invest in developing capabilities of SSAs and sector professionals, and mobilise community and corporate resources to support the sector. We have refreshed our brand strategy and identity reflecting our enhanced sector developer role. The NCSS identity has been updated, and both Community Chest and Social Service Institute will adopt new logos to align with the updated NCSS brandCORPORATE GROUPRole 1 - Marketing Comms
  • Support in the execution of a multi-faceted campaign e.g. SG60 and Year of Celebrating Social Service Professionals.
  • Gain hands-on experience in various aspects of marketing communications, including integrated planning, stakeholder engagement, and campaign management.
Role 2 - Strategic Comms
  • Publicity of key announcements:
  • translate insights into communication plans
  • draft media materials, facilitate media interviews, prepare media analysis reports
  • Content-development for NCSS publications/socials
  • draft compelling stories and related social posts
  • Social listening and media analysis
  • analyse insights and prepare reports
Role 3 - Workplace Transformation
  • Support in Oral History function and curate stories for dissemination
  • Create stories using videos, snippets for publishing Oral History within NCSS and to social services agencies
PHILANTHROPY GROUPRole 4 - CommChest
  • Support the team in the engagement of partners such as Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM), as well as schools, pre-schools, educational institutions
  • Assist to raise awareness on sharing and giving, and to participate in the annual school appeal projects.
  • Support Community Chest's outreach efforts as part of SG60 initiatives
Role 5 - Data Ops
  • Provide timely data analysis and insights to the Management
  • Organise an internal dashboard of data points, projections and assumptions for proper knowledge management, strategic planning and reporting purposes
Role 6 - Sustainable Philanthropy
  • Monitor and analyse KPIs relating to the Sustainable Philanthropy Framework
  • Assist to create visualisation and infographics to communicate impact to management
  • Assist in the planning of Community of Practice (COP) series which include identifying participants, content planning, design of collaterals, venue sourcing and managing of logistics etc
Role 7 - Knowledge Management (KM)
  • Support the Donation Management System (DMS) team in organizing, documenting, and sharing critical information within the organization.
Role 8 - Project Management
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams to assist in the planning, coordination, and implementation of projects.
  • Monitor project deadlines and milestones, and ensure timely completion of tasks
SERVICES GROUPThe Service Delivery team is part of Services Group, which aims to fund critical and emerging needs and streamline landscape of services and providers. Services Group does this through connecting with policy owners on outcomes and directions for the social service sector, brokering collaborations among service providers and resourcing the sector (such as funding, data and physical spaces). Part of Service Delivery's work includes managing programmes that support disadvantaged children, youth and families; as well as persons with mental health conditions.
The intern will support two teams that manage programmes that support disadvantaged children, youth and families.Role 9 - Child, Youth and Families TeamRole 10 - Mental Health Team
  • Support development and/or refinement of sub-sector landscapes
  • Support discussions with service providers and/or other stakeholder
  • Prepare slides to summarise findings for the above
  • Record key notes from the discussions to further refine the findings
Role 11 - Data Related
  • Support discussions with service providers and/or other stakeholders and support team's engagements with service providers and/or other stakeholders to better understand their programme offerings
  • Propose approach based on engagement findings to obtain data on programme offerings to enable NCSS to have a collective view of the social service sector.
  • Explore technology to automate manual processes
CAPABILITY GROUPRole 12 - People Strategy Team
  • Support the team in projects addressing attraction and retention strategies to drive and support their capability development journey in digitalisation, people and volunteer management
  • Support in the engagements with talents on their development journey events/programmes organised for capability development and talent engagements
Role 13 - Mental Health
  • Assist in mapping out the various providers in the mental health and community sub-clusters who could contribute to a stronger social sector in Singapore
  • Conduct research and analysis to identify partners that NCSS should engage and work closely with, especially in terms of capability development
Role 14 - Desktop Research
  • Conduct research corporate volunteerism, informing the team when creating useful content and resources for sector engagement
  • Support and participate in the engagement activities organised by the team to gain better understanding of the ecosystem stakeholders in the volunteerism space
Role 15 - Data Analysis
  • Conduct data analysis to establish findings and insights, supporting narratives and finding correlations among various practices
  • Support and participate in the engagement activities organised by the team to gain better understanding of the ecosystem stakeholders in the volunteerism space
Role 16 - Organisation Transformation 1
  • Assist in strengthening organisational capabilities of Social Service Agencies (SSAs) through NCSS' schemes and initiatives
  • Reviewing the effectiveness of efforts to strengthen organisational capabilities of SSAs, through conducting landscape scans, assessing current efforts and providing recommendations
  • Enhancing communications plans and materials to engage SSAs to strengthen their capabilities through NCSS' schemes and initiatives
  • Streamlining internal workflows and equipping internal teams with knowledge and skills to enable NCSS to support SSAs efficiently and effectively
  • Assisting in the planning and preparation for workshops to equip SSAs with knowledge on strengthening organisational health
Role 17 - Organisation Transformation 2
  • Reviewing and setting up pipelines for extracting, transforming and loading operational data on organisational health, leadership and manpower for analysis and dashboarding.
  • Conducting research analytics projects.
  • Producing content for visualisations, dashboards and reports.
Role 18 - Leadership Transformation
  • Responsible for building the Board Leadership Database that enables and supports planning and policies for NCSS's work to strengthen SSA Boards
  • Plan and execute NCSS's annual Board Landscape scan and update of Board Leadership Database, including demographic and organisation info
  • Develop and enhance dashboards from the Board Leadership Database using Power BI.
  • Prepare presentations on the annual Board Landscape trends.
  • Support the team in preparing and conducting engagement sessions with Board members and executive leaders of Social Service Agencies
STRATEGY GROUPRole 19 - Digital and Data Strategy InternJoin us as an intern in the Digital and Data Strategy team at NCSS and contribute to our mission of enhancing NCSS's role as a sector developer through digital transformation and data-driven strategies. In this role, you will research and analyse government digital transformation initiatives, emerging technologies, and their applications in the social service sector.Work responsibilities and activities include:
  • -Conduct in-depth research on government digital transformation and emerging technologies (e.g. AI, sensors, IoT, geospatial) relevant to social services.
  • -Analyse case studies of successful digital initiatives in government and social service sectors.
  • -Assist in identifying potential applications of emerging technologies for NCSS and its member organisations.
  • -Support the development of recommendations for NCSS's digital transformation and technology adoption strategies.
  • -Assist with admin duties. design and preparation of materials and notetaking during comms/engagement sessions
  • -Assist in preparation of reports, presentations, and other materials for the Digital and Data Strategy team.
  • -Collaborate with team members on ongoing digital and data projects within NCSS.
Role 20 - Planning and StrategyJoin us at the National Council of Social Service (NCSS) as a Planning & Futures intern, and become an architect of change in our rapidly evolving sector. You will be part of a dynamic team leading in the development and management of the organisation's business strategies to contribute to the stewardship and development of the Social Service sector, including future planning and action.Work responsibilities and activities include:
  • - Identify global and local emerging trends that impact the social service landscape and assess/analyse the implications of these trends;
  • - Conduct international scans to identify best practices in similar industries/sectors that can be adapted to Singapore's context;
  • - Propose recommendations and considerations for implementation, contextualised to the Singapore social service landscape;
  • - Support in stakeholder engagements including logistical support, preparation of pre and post engagement materials
Role 21 - MembershipThe NCSS Social Service Summit is an annual signature event that brings together leaders and partners in the social service ecosystems. It aims to serve as a platform to exchange ideas and collaborate for an impactful sector that is ready to tackle the challenges of the future.
  • The intern will play an instrumental role in supporting the core team's work in the planning and implementation of Social Service Summit 2025 ( taking place in July 2025)
  • Working with stakeholders in the social sector to curate programme, activities and materials for the event
  • Working with the Event Organiser to manage invitations and registration and analysing feedback data
  • Assist with various day responsibilities including logistical tasks, attendee assistance and general operational support
We welcome applicants who are looking for a fulfilling and impactful internship with us. For those who are interested, you should ideally be in University 2nd year or penultimate years.Please state your preference of the role (e.g. 1, 3 & 8) by indicating under the Questionaire section " Description of how you have demonstrated that you possess these competencies."About National Council of Social Service:NCSS is the umbrella body for over 500 member social service agencies in Singapore. Its mission is to provide leadership and direction in enhancing the capabilities and capacity of our members, advocating for social service needs, and strengthening strategic partnerships, for an effective social service ecosystem. Community Chest and Social Service Institute (SSI) are part of NCSS. For more information visit www.ncss.gov.sg