Expert - (Project Management - Executive affairs )

Job Purpose: Support governance of project portfolios, assuring 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. Roles and Responsibilities: Strategy - 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 that support 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. Operations - 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, analyse 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. Product/Process Improvement - 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. Job Qualifications & Requirements: Education: - Bachelor’s/ master’s degree in civil engineering/ 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 Required Competencies: - 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

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