Stakeholder Manager

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Coordinate government authorities, municipalities, utilities, landowners, transport agencies, and third parties.
• Develop and implement stakeholder engagement and consent management plans.
• Manage NOCs, permits, consents, approvals, and authority submissions through timely closure and tracking.
• Coordinate utility interfaces, land access, right-of-way, land acquisition, and transfer requirements.
• Maintain stakeholder registers, approval trackers, commitments, correspondence, actions, and decision logs.
• Monitor contractor compliance; identify and escalate approval, utility, and land-access risks.
• Facilitate meetings, workshops, consultations, and issue-resolution sessions; prepare reports, briefings, presentations, and leadership updates.

Required qualifications

• Technical or engineering-related university degree from a recognized institution.
• At least 13 years of experience in railway projects or the corresponding discipline.
• At least 7 years of rail design and/or construction experience, where applicable, and extensive UAE major infrastructure stakeholder and government authority management experience.
• Strong knowledge of UAE authority approvals, NOC processes, utility coordination, regulatory requirements, and land-access procedures.
• Experience managing complex interfaces involving government entities, utilities, operators, contractors, consultants, and third parties.
• Strong communication, negotiation, facilitation, problem-solving, conflict-resolution, organization, coordination, reporting, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree in engineering, project management, construction management, or a related discipline is preferred.
• Familiarity with programme management, project controls, and multidisciplinary design and construction environments is preferred.
• Professional membership, chartership, or accreditation from a recognized related institution is preferred.

Benefits

• Benefits include competitive pay and retirement plans, paid time off and flexible holidays, training and mentorship, veteran support, wellness resources, and medical, dental, and vision plans.