Chief Specialist - Talent Planning & Acquisition

About This Role

Job Description Strategy

• Lead multiple strategic projects across job architecture, evaluation and competencies, ensuring prioritisation, benefits realisation, risk control, and stakeholder alignment under approved Project Management governance.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of RTA Business Context, aligning job families, grades, and organisation designs with strategy, service models, and budget envelopes to inform leadership decisions.
• Govern Policy Analysis and Development for job architecture, standardise methodologies, artefacts, thresholds, and review cadence, ensuring alignment with HR Laws, Regulations & Policies and RTA standards.
• Institutionalise Job Analysis & Evaluation, approve evidence requirements, benchmarking inputs, and re-evaluation triggers to sustain internal equity and market competitiveness.
• Embed Succession Planning & Career Pathing and Talent Strategy Formulation into architecture defining ladders, and readiness paths linked to capacity, cost, and progression frameworks.
• Apply Strategic Workforce Intelligence and Market Research and Benchmarking to anticipate demand shifts, quantify resourcing and skill implications and recommend ROI-positive design options using ROI Assessment.
• Review and develop job classification within the RTA in accordance with Dubai Government HR legislation, internal RTA policies, and best practices

Operations

• Oversee drafting, consultation, quality checks, and approvals, integrate competency models and ensure GRP-ready, version-controlled artefacts.
• Direct end-to-end job evaluation in coordination with DGHR, govern factor scoring, evidence packs, and appeals, publish outcomes and re-classifications with audit-ready documentation.
• Drive competency framework updates, align behavioural and technical competencies to evolving needs/emerging roles, embedding models into profiles, pathways, and development plans across organisational units.
• Coordinate job description and evaluation cycles ensuring timely updates and approvals.
• Govern GRP alignment in coordination with Digital Dubai for positions, titles, grades, and reporting lines, direct change control, data quality, and interfaces so structures remain current, accurate, and analytics ready.
• Coordinate structure-change programmes with leaders and HRBPs using Strategic HR Business Partnering, model spans/layers, transition impacts, and costed alternatives before execution.
• Drive quarterly portfolio reviews of architecture KPIs under Quality Management & Enhancement and Operational Excellence & Service Innovation, surface gaps, root causes, and corrective actions.
• Steer communication and enablement for architecture releases through change kits, role maps, and FAQs, equip managers to implement designs consistently and on schedule.

Product/Process Improvement

• Advance Digital HR Transformation and People Analytics & Data Automation to automate JDX workflows, evaluation packs, approval gates, and dashboards, improve timeliness, accuracy, and transparency.
• Embed Future of Work Strategy & Readiness, Futuristic Organization Design, Enterprise Competency & Workforce Models, and Skills-Based Organization Design & Enablement into design playbooks and pilots.
• Lead Change Management & Workforce Agility and Sustainable HR Strategy & Circular Economy Integration practices within architecture initiatives to ensure durable adoption and responsible resourcing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's / Master’s degree in HR
• 9+ Years in case of Master’s degree (11+ years in case of Bachelor’s degree) in related field
• Skilled in job analysis and evaluation to support organizational effectiveness
• Experience in organizational structure design, review, and optimization
• Ability to analyze, develop, and implement organizational policies
• Expertise in succession planning and career path development
• Competence in talent strategy formulation and workforce planning
• Skilled in strategic workforce intelligence and data‑driven HR decision‑making
• Understanding of the organization’s business context and strategic objectives
• Strong project management and coordination skills
• Capability to conduct ROI assessments for HR programs and initiatives
• Experience in quality management and continuous improvement practices
• Knowledge of market research and benchmarking for talent and organizational trends
• Familiarity with Emiratization strategies and workforce localization programs
• Commitment to operational excellence and service innovation
• Understanding of HR laws, regulations, and compliance frameworks

Job Category Organizational Development

Advertiser Roads and Transport Authority

Department Human Resources & Development

Educational-level Bachelor

Required Nationality All Nationalities (Priority for UAE National)

Monthly Salary Unspecified

Schedule-Time Full time

Job Posting 12/04/2026

Unposting Date 13/05/2026