The Singapore Red Cross is a homegrown humanitarian organisation, dedicated to relieving human suffering, protecting lives and dignity and responding to emergencies. We serve the vulnerable through our blood donor recruitment programme, home and day activity centre for the disabled, elder aid, health aid, transport aid, family life aid, and community first aid, and we build capacity and resilience through our training academy, and volunteer and youth development. Beyond our shores, we mobilise and translate contributions from the donor community to relief and recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts, with the aim of helping communities affected by disasters.
SRC's processes and administration are largely manual and based on spreadsheets. With dozens of programmes and initiatives, this makes streamlining operations and inter-department collaboration difficult. SRC is looking to digitalise most of its operations and administration in 2021 and the organisation is also doing a refresh of its technology infrastructure.
Objectives
SRC is looking to establish an integrated network of custom-developed proprietary systems. This is to cut down on time and manpower put into daily routine tasks, and dedicate resources into more value-adding activities. SRC also aims to completely put in place new IT assets, services/equipment, and infrastructure as part of its Refresh initiative. Consolidation and Integration of multiple custom-developed systems and establishing "one-stop" portal.
- Collaborate with SRC's business units to comprehensively understand current operational and administrative goals and limitations, digitalisation requirements (supported by supervisor).
- Trainees would also be required to assist with daily administration and troubleshooting, and periodic training of staff in Basic IT knowledge.
- Trainees play a support/shadow/2nd chair role to the IT supervisor. Mostly they will be project managing the project and vendors.
- Understand the concept and vision of the softwares/portal, and suggest new ideas to achieve the desired outcome.
- Trainees will also help in areas of tech refresh such as helping staff update software, coordinating, daily tech support during the tech refresh period.
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Singapore Red Cross Society - Designation:
IT Technical Speacialist (Internship) - Profession:
IT / Information Technology - Industry:
Social Services - Location:
Museum