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Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Requirements
- Solid project management experience in financial services or large transformation programmes.
- Strong grounding in PMO practices, documentation, and structured delivery.
- Proficiency in PowerPoint (slide creation, structured updates) and Excel (trackers, logs, reporting).
- Experience managing multi-stakeholder coordination and onboarding activities.
- Strong communication, documentation, and organisational skills.
- PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent certification is an advantage.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain core PMO artefacts (charter, governance model, RACI, plans, registers).
- Run programme cadence: steering committees, working groups, decisions, and escalations.
- Track progress, risks, dependencies, and ensure timely sign-offs.
- Prepare high-quality PowerPoint decks, decision papers, and structured updates.
Stakeholder & Communication Management
- Coordinate with regulatory, industry, and internal stakeholders.
- Manage structured communication, expectations, and readiness across all parties.
- Present updates clearly and confidently using PPT storytelling and executive-ready slides.
Onboarding & Readiness
- Oversee business onboarding activities for participating institutions.
- Ensure frameworks, playbooks, and readiness criteria are applied consistently.
- Support training, readiness assessments, and issue resolution.
Cross-Functional Coordination
- Align business and technical workstreams with the platform provider.
- Support joint activities such as training, onboarding preparation, and limited UAT coordination.
- Ensure clarity of roles, ownership, and dependencies across teams.
Transition to Operations
- Facilitate the setup of operational support functions (L1/L2).
- Ensure structures, resources, and processes are defined for BAU operations.
- Track and manage the transition from programme delivery into steady-state.
Personal Attributes
- Highly organised, structured, and detail-oriented.
- Strong ownership mindset with the ability to anticipate issues.
- Mature stakeholder handling and cross-functional collaboration.
- Calm, solution-oriented, and comfortable in high-visibility environments.
- Able to work with discipline, clarity, and consistency in a regulated ecosystem.
Joining time frame
2 weeks (maximum 1 month)
