Interface and Stakeholder Manager - Major urban...

The role will coordinate interfaces between internal project teams, consultants, contractors, service providers and external stakeholders, helping to maintain alignment, facilitate approvals and ensure that interface actions are identified, tracked and resolved in a timely manner.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the development and implementation of stakeholder engagement and interface management approaches for the programme and its projects.

• Identify, map and maintain stakeholder and interface requirements, dependencies, responsibilities and points of contact.

• Coordinate project interfaces across internal teams, consultants, contractors, service providers and relevant external or governmental stakeholders.

• Support the coordination and tracking of permits, approvals, clearances and stakeholder signoffs required for project delivery.

• Maintain stakeholder and interface registers, action logs and related records, ensuring that issues and dependencies are actively followed through to closure.

• Plan and coordinate stakeholder meetings, workshops and interface sessions, including agendas, supporting materials, minutes and action tracking.

• Facilitate timely exchange of information between parties and escalate unresolved interface issues, risks or conflicting requirements to the appropriate project leadership.

• Prepare stakeholder briefings, presentations, status updates and coordination reports as required.

• Monitor changes in stakeholder requirements and project interfaces and update engagement or coordination actions accordingly.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 15 years of professional experience in stakeholder engagement, interface management, project coordination or a closely related field.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline ; a postgraduate qualification or relevant professional certification is preferred.

• Strong experience supporting major urban development, infrastructure or multidisciplinary programmes.

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate diverse internal and external stakeholders, manage competing interfaces and support permitting or approval processes.

• Strong communication, facilitation, presentation and workshop-management skills, with the ability to produce clear written records and action-oriented reporting.

• Good understanding of stakeholder and authority coordination within the Saudi project environment is preferred.

Technical Skills

• Stakeholder engagement and relationship management

• Interface identification, coordination and tracking

• Permitting and approvals coordination

• Stakeholder matrices, interface registers and action logs

• Workshop and meeting facilitation

• Executive presentations, reporting and communication

• Issue escalation and multidisciplinary coordination

Assignment Information

• Position category: Saudi National