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OTG—One Talent Gateway

Digital and Technology

The Public Service opportunities marketplace supporting access to cross-agency growth and development opportunities.

PPTP—Pre-Posting Training Programme

International

MFA training preparing officers for their first overseas posting in tradecraft, administration, consular assistance and media engagement.

PB—Performance Bonus

Finance and Economy

An individual variable payment linked to performance under the applicable public-service compensation framework.

FlexiGrow—An annual flexible benefit for eligible Civil Service officers to support personal development, health, fitness and well-being.

Cross-government

NPAA—Non-Pensionable Annual Allowance

Finance and Economy

The one-month year-end allowance commonly described as the civil service’s 13th-month payment.

EDGE—Executive Development & Growth Exchange Programme

Housing and Built Environment

A practitioner-led milestone course developing broader urban-governance perspectives among high-performing middle-management officers in the Infrastructure and Environment sector.

Clean wage—A remuneration approach in which salary components are explicit and there are no hidden perks or unlisted benefits.

Cross-government

Flexi-place—A flexible work arrangement allowing work from approved locations other than the usual workplace, such as through telecommuting.

Cross-government

Farmer—An informal label used for a public officer who is not regarded as having entered through the scholar route.

Cross-government

ASBP—Administrative Specialist Basic Programme

International

MFA's foundation programme equipping new Foreign Service Administrative Specialists with basic technical, administrative and operational skills.