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Build Your Career @ DOS
Unleash Your Inner Potential: DOS empowers everyone to excel in their expertise of work
Development
Dedicated to your professional development
We offer a range of career development and learning opportunities to help you grow and achieve your potential
Ownership
Empowered to take ownership of your work and expertise
We encourage autonomy and trust you to take responsibility to improve existing work, drive new innovation and make meaningful impact to DOS, the Public Service and Singapore
Supportive Culture
Support your success
Thrive in a supportive community built on trust, professionalism and open communication
What Can You Expect in DOS?
Ownership in Work
- Empowerment at work to drive work innovation and improvement
- Engaging and challenging job scope
Work Culture
- Nurturing work environment
- Supportive culture with open communication
Compensation
- Attractive and market competitive remuneration which include mid-year and year end variable payments, market adjustment component (if applicable)
Career Development
- Job rotation and secondment opportunities
- Involvement in cross-department/ agency projects and assignments
- Engagement with the international statistical community
- Access to a myriad of data and statistics learning resources via various channels such as DOS Academy
- Local and overseas training opportunities
Benefits
- Flexible Work Arrangements including hybrid work and staggered working hours
- 18 days vacation leave
- 14 days medical leave
- Medical and dental subsidies
- Use of government holiday bungalows
- Staff Welfare programs and initiatives

Learning and Growth
At DOS, we prioritise our people and invest in their growth through job-specific learning opportunities and leadership training. We offer opportunities for overseas and local courses, conferences, inter-agency projects, cross functional assignments and job rotations to gain exposure. We provide learning resources and career coaches to support officers' career development and data competencies.
Overview of Learning Opportunities

DOS Academy
- Statistics and Data Management Competency Framework
- Knowledge exchange and learning resources
- DOS Learning Day
- Foundation courses for new officers

Knowledge Sharing Platforms
- Department-wide monthly meeting
- Divisional meeting
- DOS Academy sharing

On-the-Job Training
- Overseas and local courses, conferences
- Inter-agency projects
- Cross-functional assignments
- Job rotation/ secondment opportunities to public agencies

Formal Structured Training
- Classroom training/ online/ blended learning with external training providers
Structured Job Rotation Programme and Secondment Opportunities
Upscale data competencies and statistical skills with DOS's learning resources e.g., on-the-go learning and in-house training.
Work alongside experienced team members to apply these learning to real world data analysis.
Deepen technical expertise through interesting cross-functional data projects.
Partner with team members to experiment with new ideas to innovate and improve existing statistical work processes and methodologies.
Broaden perspective through job rotation and/or secondments to other statistical functional areas within DOS or other public agencies.
Develop project management and leadership skills via planning and managing inter-agency projects and guiding new team members.

Our Culture
DOS encourages officers to explore new techniques, methods and approaches to ensure that we stay in the forefront of the present and future statistical developments in Singapore.
DOS implements various staff welfare initiatives to improve the well-being of our officers. We also provide flexible working arrangements including hybrid work and staggered working hours to support our officers' work-life needs.
Read the Factsheet on DOS Divisions [PDF, 995.1 KB] for an introduction to the work of the various Divisions in the Department of Statistics.
