Position Objectives:
To lead and manage key projects that support the Saudi Green Initiative and Vision 2030, ensuring seamless collaboration between government and external partners to meet national environmental goals, including the cultivation of 10 billion trees.
Job Description & Responsibilities
- Lead and oversee all project activities across the Consulting, Executive, and Technical teams, ensuring alignment with the project charter and strategic objectives
- Coordinate efforts across the three project tracks: Pilot Projects, Governance Structures, and PMO Support creating high-level and low-level implementation plans that detail tasks, timelines, and resource allocation
- Develop comprehensive project planning documents, including project charters, work breakdown structures (WBS), and Gantt charts, to guide project execution and ensure clarity among team members
- Establish project control mechanisms to monitor progress, manage changes, and maintain adherence to scope, timelines, and budgets, while effectively mitigating risks
- Facilitate communication among stakeholders, providing regular updates and reports to ensure transparency and alignment with project goals and benchmarks
- Implement quality assurance processes to uphold project standards and ensure successful delivery across all project tracks, leveraging established benchmarks for performance evaluation
- Conduct regular project reviews and evaluations to assess progress against defined KPIs, making adjustments to strategies as necessary to drive project success and continuous improvement
Qualifications & Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Environmental Management, Project Management, Business Administration, or a related field
- Minimum 15 years of experience in project management, ideally in environmental or government consultancy projects
- PMP certification or equivalent is preferred
- Strong leadership and project management skills with proven experience managing multidisciplinary teams
- Proficient in PMP methodology, including project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure
- Skilled in using project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Jira, Asana) for scheduling, resource management, and task tracking
- Expertise in reporting and creating dashboards to monitor project progress, track KPIs, and present data-driven insights
- Experience in delivering executive presentations and communicating complex project statuses to senior stakeholders
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities
- Ability to manage budgets, schedules, and deliverables effectively
- Knowledge of governance structures, sustainability initiatives, or environmental programs is a plus
