In your first week somebody told you which clinic takes walk-ins, and that no, the landlord cannot simply keep your deposit. Nobody paid them. They looked after your country's group because somebody had to. Most of those groups now need the next somebody.
The honest bit
ExpatSG sells nothing and pays nobody. No salary, no commission, no "exposure". Most passes rule out side income anyway, and a group run by someone on commission stops being a community and turns into an advertising channel.
We do the writing, the publishing and the admin. What we cannot do from here is know what your community actually needs. That part is yours.
Four roles. Pick one, or all of them.
Editor
Tell us what is missing: the festival nobody has heard of, the holiday that needs explaining, the question your group asks every week. We research, write, publish and credit you.
A few messages a month. Judgement, not labour.
Moderator
Read the group daily, approve what belongs, bin the spam. You will see the same questions on repeat, which makes you the best judge of what the group is missing.
A few minutes a day, every day. Spammers do not take weekends off.
Event organiser
We plan it together and pick the venue, because five communities in one room get a better price than one. Then it is yours: promotion, guest list, the night itself.
Open to the whole group. No sales pitch. Ever.
Ambassador
The first person your community comes to. You know the embassy, the chamber and the cultural bodies, and you coordinate the other three roles so only what needs us reaches us.
For someone who has been here a few years and does not panic at embassy receptions.
What you get
Nothing. Also, quite a lot.
A real role with a visible result, which reads rather better on a CV than "career break" if you came here on your partner's pass. Contacts you cannot buy: embassies, business associations, the owners who matter to your community. And within a few months, new arrivals will know your name before they know the MRT map.
Who we want
A year or more in Singapore, opinions included. You know your community, its institutions and its gossip. You have a few hours a week that are actually free. No qualifications, no writing experience. Just reliability: a moderator who vanishes for three weeks is worse than none at all.
How to apply
Send a WhatsApp to +65 8312 3858 with three things: your name, your country, the role. That is the whole application. We reply, talk it through, and introduce you to whoever is already there.
No group for your country yet? Say so. That is how most of the 55 started.
Apply on WhatsApp