Project Director - Smart City Delivery

Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Provide overall strategic leadership and direction for large-scale smart city delivery programmes, ensuring alignment with client objectives, government mandates, and public sector requirements
• Convert strategic objectives and public-sector mandates into structured technology delivery programmes, ensuring traceability from requirement to operational outcome
• Direct multi-disciplinary programmes spanning IT, OT, infrastructure, and construction interfaces, applying structured programme management methodologies (e.g., MSP, PMI, PRINCE2)
• Manage competing stakeholder priorities across CIO functions, smart city design teams, delivery authorities, and systems integrators; drive alignment and facilitate risk-balanced decisions in complex governance environments
• Lead programme governance structures, chairing steering committees and programme boards with senior government officials, executive stakeholders, and delivery partners
• Articulate technical decisions in terms of economic, operational, and societal value; maintain oversight of performance metrics, risk registers, commercial exposure, and milestone achievement
• Own project-level P&L responsibility (approximately $5M), managing budgets, financial performance, and commercial outcomes
• Build and maintain full client relationships across technical and commercial dimensions in competitive delivery environments
• Lead, mentor, and develop programme delivery teams, fostering high-performance culture and capability development
• Identify and mitigate programme-level risks, escalating critical issues and implementing resolution strategies
• Drive value realization through continuous monitoring of benefits, outcomes, and performance against business cases
• Navigate complex contractual, political, and organizational landscapes to maintain programme momentum and stakeholder confidence
• Provide executive-level reporting to senior leadership, government entities, and key stakeholders on programme status, risks, and strategic decisions

Your Skills and Experience

• Minimum 15 years of experience delivering large-scale, highly complex programmes in smart city, digital transformation, infrastructure, or government technology environments
• Proven track record leading multi-disciplinary programmes with IT, OT, construction, and infrastructure components
• Demonstrated success managing government-level stakeholder relationships and navigating public sector delivery environments
• Strong commercial acumen with experience managing project P&L, budgets, and financial performance
• Expert knowledge of programme management methodologies (MSP, PMI, PRINCE2, or equivalent)
• Exceptional ability to translate complex technical concepts into business language and strategic objectives into technical delivery plans
• Extensive experience with governance frameworks, risk management, and stakeholder management in politically sensitive environments
• Proven capability resolving conflicts and driving consensus among diverse stakeholder groups with competing priorities
• Strong leadership skills with experience building, managing, and developing high-performing teams
• Deep understanding of smart city technology domains including IT systems, OT infrastructure, IoT platforms, and urban digital services
• Experience managing relationships with master systems integrators, technology vendors, construction partners, and consulting firms
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills with ability to engage confidently with C-suite executives, government officials, and technical teams
• Track record delivering programmes on time, within budget, and to required quality standards in complex, dynamic environments

Academic Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, Project Management, or related discipline
• Professional certifications such as MSP Practitioner, PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or equivalent are highly desirable