Expert Project Management

Job Purpose:

Support governance of project portfolios, ensuring alignment with Dubai/RTA strategies, ensuring projects are executed with high quality from start to finish. Offer strategic advice, monitor performance, and coordinate with partners to maintain compliant, efficient, and results driven delivery.

Lead excellence and performance initiatives for the CEO Office. Coordinate directives, programs, committees, data/AI workstreams, and resilience. Deliver evidence based insights, benchmarking, and process improvements aligned with RTA priorities.

• Ensure projects are aligned with the RTA and Dubai Strategic plan.
• Serve as the primary advisor to the CEO on portfolio priorities and benefits realization.
• Design and implement an advanced portfolio governance framework to ensure strategic alignment.
• Provide strategic advice to the CEO on international opportunities and best practice in portfolio governance framework implementation.
• Analyse strategic gaps and provide recommendation on supporting corporate excellence and RTA targets.
• Prepare strategic study to be reported to EAS CEO.
• Provide recommendation on strategic partnerships opportunities area of development and investment opportunities.
• Participate/lead strategic committees and contribute to corporate policy development; propose enhancements to existing ones.
• Ensure projects are complying with governance framework and corporate standards are applied.
• Develop strategic initiatives that ensure sustainability and corporate development.
• Coordinate corporate partnerships, memberships, and participation in external forums/agreements; follow up on outputs and performance commitments.

• Supervise the overall progress of projects at different stages.
• Monitor Program/Project performance, report deviations and recovery actions to the CEO.
• Coordinate and monitor sector projects, including risk/challenge analysis and performance tracking; prepare progress and completion reports.
• Review change orders for sector projects, analyze root causes and justifications, ensure need and data validity, and submit recommendations and reports to the CEO and concerned units.
• Follow up application of value management principles during project phases and measure project benefits.
• Manage communication and relationships with government/semi government entities and external partners.
• Lead CEO meeting preparation and ensure readiness of required briefs, documents, and presentations.
• Manage project related complaints and suggestions with internal entities to timely closure.
• Review project budget and associated resource utilization.
• Evaluate human and technical resourcing across sector projects; propose restructuring or targeted support as needed.

• Analyze performance reports and statistical data to identify challenges and propose actionable solutions.
• Assist in developing the sector level KPIs and enhance monitoring/measurement systems for transparency and accountability.
• Assist in dissemination of pioneering practices and lessons learned from projects in the sector.
• Guide the benchmarking of sector performance against global best practices and lead continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide recommendations on AI initiatives (including Proof of Concepts and use case validation); ensure compliance with corporate documents.
• Simplify business processes and implement organizational improvements that enhance efficiency and quality.
• Develop and pilot improved project management methods that increase flexibility and effectiveness.
• Assist in creating initiatives that strengthen sector efficiency and sustainability; explore opportunities to establish new projects or affiliated entities.
• Promote a culture of innovation and motivate departments to adopt cutting edge solutions.

Education:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in civil engineering or business administration.

Experience:

• 16+ years of experience including managing complex portfolios/programs and cross entity projects.

Qualification:

• Certifications such as PMP, CMPAI, PRINCE2, Program Management Professional (PMP), Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.
• Governance, Risk & Excellence Programs.
• Operational Excellence & Service Innovation.
• Policy Analysis and Development.
• Project Management.
• RTA Business Context.
• Strategic Planning & Execution Management.
• Vision Setting & Strategic Foresight.
• Strategic Project Tracking.