How to become a policy administration professional

Official title: Policy administration professional

Also called: Data protection officer, Future strategist, Policy analyst, Scenario planning analyst, Data Protection Executive, Policy Officer, Regulations and Trade Controls Manager, Senior Regulations and Trade Controls Analyst/Regulations and Trade Controls Analyst, Ÿ Data protection officer, Ÿ Future strategist, Ÿ Policy analyst, Ÿ Scenario planning analyst

Policy administration professional develops and analyses policies guiding the design, implementation and modification of government and commercial operations and programmes. He/she may also implement the policies and programmes to improve existing regulation and evaluate the effects of policies.

Main tasks

• Liaising and consulting with programme administrators and other interested parties to identify policy needs
• Reviewing existing policies and legislation to identify anomalies and out-of-date provisions
• Researching social, economic and industrial trends, and client expectations of programmes and services provided
• Formulating and analysing policy options, preparing briefing papers and recommendations for policy changes, and advising on preferred options
• Assessing impacts, financial implications, interactions with other programmes and political and administrative feasibility of policies
• Reviewing operations and programmes to ensure consistency with policies of the organisation

Ways in

• University: Business & Commerce degrees, Offered by 6 universities in Singapore

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

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Questions people ask

How do I become a policy administration professional?

Ways in include: Business & Commerce degrees.

Will AI change the work of a policy administration professional?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026