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PMO Specialist – Abu Dhabi Government Entity ( UAE National Talent ) Jobs in Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates at Confidential
Title: PMO Specialist – Abu Dhabi Government Entity ( UAE National Talent )
Company: Confidential
Location: Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Role Purpose:
The PMO Specialist is the professional PMO backbone of the partnership portfolio. The role keeps a single, accurate picture of ongoing, interdependent initiatives, designing and running the tracking, dependency, and reporting machinery.
Responsibilities:
- Builds and runs the PMO operating system: Designs the master tracker, data standards, reporting , and dashboards spanning all initiatives across partnerships.
- Manages dependencies and risk at portfolio level: Maintains the portfolio risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
- Drives the status cadence: Runs the recurring data call across initiative owners and partner counterparts, consolidating updates into one accurate view.
- Coordinates across the ecosystem: Keeps interdependent workstreams aligned across units, without owning or executing any initiative.
- Services the governance secretariat: Prepares Board and Committee material, maintains decision and escalation logs, and drives follow-through to closure.
- Supports engagements: Supports bilateral committee and working-group preparation and logistics; produces Arabic-language correspondence as needed, and supports coordination of travel and meeting preparation.
Experience:
- 6–10 years experience in PMO, program, or portfolio coordination, ideally including standing up or running a PMO for a large, multi-workstream program
- Portfolio-level command of dependency, risk and milestone management across many concurrent initiatives
- Designs and operates PM/portfolio tooling and reporting (e.g., MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Power BI); able to build, modify, and use the system
- Proven senior stakeholder management and influence without authority across many institutions
- Strong written communication with professional fluency in English and Arabic
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., business, engineering, project/program management, public policy, international relations)