Singapore Director

🫵 Role: Singapore Director

📍 Location: Singapore

📅 Deadline for applications: 20/02/2026 at midnight

🔎We aren’t able to sponsor a working visa for Singapore

Join T&E in Driving a Global Transition to Zero-Emission Transport and Energy

For more than 35 years, T&E (Transport & Environment) has been at the forefront of decarbonizing transport and energy, leading the way toward a cleaner, more sustainable future. Starting in Europe, our independent, evidence-based research, coupled with powerful advocacy and communications, has helped shape impactful policies that accelerate a just and efficient transition to zero-emission transportation and energy. However, achieving our mission requires global collaboration.

In 2025, we are expanding our work to the Asia-Pacific region. Starting in Singapore,  we are recruiting a dynamic, self-starter as our  Singapore Director to lead this effort. In this role, you will be responsible for establishing and managing T&E’s Singapore operations, developing strategic stakeholder relationships, and driving our initiatives forward. Additionally, you will oversee project quality and budget management to ensure the successful delivery of our goals.

If you are passionate about advancing clean transport and energy solutions in Singapore and beyond, we would like to talk with you. This position will report to the Senior Project Manager (Asia-Pacific) and work closely with teams in Brussels when necessary.  

Roles and Responsibilities

-Overseeing all administrative tasks related to establishing and managing T&E’s office in Singapore, ensuring full compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. 

-Provide regular internal reports to update both internal and external stakeholders on the progress of the Singapore office.

-Demonstrate strong leadership and management skills to attract top local talent and foster strategic partnerships across key industries, government agencies, and international networks.

-Collaborate with teams in Brussels to develop and implement strategic initiatives, crafting policy papers and projects that align with T&E’s organizational priorities in Singapore.

-Leading and implementing T&E’s political strategy in Singapore and support T&Es work across Asia-Pacific

-Recruit and lead a  team of policy, campaign, and analytical staff, overseeing their professional development and guiding their work to achieve T&E’s priorities.

-Support  fundraising efforts for the organization. 

-Further developing T&E’s advocacy strategy towards high level international and national regulators, politicians, and media, presenting at high level meetings and events.

-Coordinating policy positions and strategies with other Directors and Senior Directors.

-Leading and guiding the team in efforts to build partnerships with key industry players, funders, NGOs and other civil society organizations.  

Job Requirements

-Experience: Minimum of 10 years managing high-impact projects and leading cross-cultural teams, including at least 5 years in a senior leadership role within an international organization. Experience working in an NGO would be an advantage. Proven expertise in project quality management with a solutions-driven approach.

-Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional teams and managing complex projects.

-Strong network within the Asia-Pacific and Singapore  policy instruments communities and a solid understanding of international decarbonizing issues.

-Experience in strategic planning and policy analysis, with the ability to think critically and innovatively about how to decarbonize transport and energy sectors.

-Good financial acumen, with experience in budget management;

-Ability to deliver to tight deadlines; eager to learn, with a positive and optimistic attitude when faced with challenges;

-The confidence to think and act with initiative, to engage and influence policy-makers of different stripes, industry representatives and other stakeholders at the highest level;

-The ability and motivation to learn technical, economic and legal information, to independently develop new political, economic or legal arguments and evidence and use them to convince key stakeholders;

-Remote Teamwork: Ability to navigate and contribute effectively within a remote, multicultural team environment.

-Risk Management: Strong capability to identify, assess, and mitigate operational risks in Singapore.

-Language: Fluency in English.

-Work Authorization: Prefer a Singapore Permanent Resident or Citizen. We aren’t able to sponsor a working visa for  Singapore. 

What do we offer

-Position Type: Full-time and permanent

-Compensation: Competitive NGO salary with a full package of benefits, including private health insurance and employee pension contribution 

-Location: Singapore

-Remote / Hybrid

-The deadline for applications is 20/02/2026 at midnight.  

About T&E

T&E is the independent expert in enabling clean transport for all. Our vision is a zero emissions mobility system that is affordable and has minimal impacts on our health and environment. Since we were created 30 years ago, T&E has shaped some of Europe’s most important environmental laws. We got the EU to set the world's most ambitious CO2 standards for cars and trucks but also helped uncover the Dieselgate scandal; we campaigned successfully to end palm oil diesel, secured a global ban on dirty shipping fuels and the creation of the aviation ETS, the world's largest carbon market for aviation, to name just a few.

We combine the power of robust, science-based evidence and a deep understanding of transport with powerful communications and impactful advocacy. Our staff in Brussels, Paris, Rome, Madrid, Berlin, Warsaw and London collaborate with our 49 national members. All together our members represent more than 3.5 million people.