Vice President - Program Director

Overview

Job Description

What You'Ll Be Doing

• Lead the strategic planning, governance, and performance management of a major project portfolio for a government client.
• Serve as Parsons’ senior client-facing leader, building trusted relationships with executive stakeholders, partners, and delivery teams.
• Oversee portfolio performance across safety, quality, scope, schedule, cost, risk, commercial outcomes, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Provide clear leadership, reporting, escalation, and decision support to Parsons leadership and client representatives.
• Direct multidisciplinary project teams and ensure the right resources, capability, and delivery focus are in place.
• Drive strong commercial discipline, including forecasting, margin performance, contract management, change control, and risk mitigation.
• Identify opportunities to expand Parsons’ role, improve delivery performance, and strengthen long-term client partnership.
• Model Parsons’ values through visible leadership, accountability, collaboration, and commitment to safety and quality.

What Required Skills You'Ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, or a related discipline.
• 20+ years of progressive leadership experience in infrastructure, construction, engineering, project management, or program management.
• Proven experience leading large, complex projects, programs, or portfolios for government or public-sector clients.
• Strong commercial, financial, contractual, risk management, and operational leadership capability.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams across complex stakeholder environments.
• Executive-level communication skills with the ability to influence senior clients, partners, and internal leadership.
• Strong understanding of project controls, governance, safety, quality, design management, and construction delivery.

What Desired Skills You'Ll Bring

• Advanced degree, professional certification, or recognized program/project management qualification.
• Experience in the Middle East and/or with UAE government entities.
• Strong market insight and the ability to support client growth, portfolio expansion, and strategic positioning.
• Experience improving program governance, recovering project performance, or leading complex stakeholder alignment.
• Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.
• We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars!
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