Analyst, Policy Development & Evaluation (1-year contract)

Verian is looking for an Analyst to join their Policy Development & Evaluation team. The role involves policy research, evaluation design, mixed-methods research, and client servicing. The ideal candidate has a background in social sciences and experience with quantitative data analysis using R, Python, or SPSS.

• 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.

• 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.
• 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.