Consultant (Manpower Projection) is required to lead a team of professional officers in the Labour and Welfare Bureau to plan, co-ordinate and execute the Government’s 2023 Manpower Projection (the Projection). His/Her main duties include –

• (a)planning and conducting the Projection according to the given timeline and agreed methodology;
• (b)liaising and negotiating with the Government Economist, the Census and Statistics Department and other bureaux and departments to collate and consolidate relevant government data and statistics and other open-source data for inputs in the Projection;
• (c)supervising and monitoring the external consultant to ensure that the stakeholder consultations in various sectors covered in the Projection and the reports and analysis on the consultations are conducted and completed up to the required standard;
• (d)preparing progress report
• (s)and final report for the Projection, and presenting the reports to the stakeholders; and
• (e)conducting studies and analyses on other labour, welfare and manpower subjects as and when requested.

Candidates must be permanent residents of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) at the time of appointment and should possess –

• (a)a Bachelor or post-graduate degree preferably in economics, mathematics, statistics, data analytics, accounting, actuarial or other related discipline from a university in Hong Kong, or equivalent;
• (b)a minimum of 10 years relevant work experience in an established consultancy firm or commercial entity, or in the public sector in compiling studies and analyses on strategic manpower / workforce planning subjects and including at least three years in a senior management capacity;
• (c)sound knowledge in using statistical models and technical skills to process and analyse data for meaningful inference and observations;
• (d)with a strategic mindset, familiar with handling manpower and related economic data and statistics from both private sector and the Government sources;
• (e)strong leadership with acumen and knowledge of the operations and manpower trends of the various business sectors with good communication and presentation skills; and
• (f)strong command of written and spoken Chinese (Cantonese and Putonghua) and English.