Head of Sector Workforce Development
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About the Role
The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi seeks a Head of Sector Workforce Development to design and build a complete talent pathway for the culture and tourism sector. This role involves strategy, partnership development, and program execution on a 12-month freelance contract.
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Responsibilities
- Map current and future sector talent demand, including required roles, volumes, and skill profiles
- Design the end to end talent pathway from school level exposure through employment
- Build and own senior relationships with educational institutions and industry stakeholders
- Lead negotiation and structuring of partnership agreements
- Define, own, and report the talent pillar KPI framework
- Manage the talent pillar budget
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience building partnerships end to end
- Strong commercial and contract management skills
- Experience owning budgets, partnership agreements, and KPI accountability
- Fluency in English
- Experience within the GCC or MENA education and talent development landscape
- Arabic language ability
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Overview
- DCT Abu Dhabi is the government entity responsible for driving sustainable growth of Abu Dhabi’s culture, tourism and creative industries.
- This role owns the talent development pillar of a high impact sector activation program.
Key Responsibilities
- Map current and future sector talent demand, including required roles, volumes, and skill profiles.
- Design the end to end talent pathway, including school level awareness, vocational training, university degrees, graduate placement, and mid career conversion.
- Define clear entry, progression, and exit points at each stage of the talent pathway.
- Prioritize interventions based on impact, determining where to build new programs, upgrade existing programs, or introduce international curricula.
- Continuously scan the education landscape for partnership and program opportunities.
- Structure new program concepts into robust business cases covering target cohort, delivery partner, funding model, and expected outcomes.
- Build and own senior relationships with schools, universities, vocational institutions, private academies, and international education brands.
- Extend the partnership network regionally and internationally to create mobility routes into the UAE ecosystem.
- Engage industry stakeholders as demand side partners and secure internship commitments, curriculum input, and hiring pipelines.
- Lead negotiation and structuring of partnership agreements in coordination with legal and procurement teams.
- Own contract execution end to end, including delivery milestones, partner performance management, and renewal or exit decisions.
- Define, own, and report the talent pillar KPI framework and manage the talent pillar budget.
Candidate Requirements
- Demonstrated experience building partnerships end to end, including identifying opportunities, sourcing partners, negotiating and contracting agreements, and managing delivery against measurable outcomes.
- Strong commercial and contract management skills.
- Experience owning budgets, partnership agreements, and KPI accountability.
- Fluency in English.
- Experience within the GCC or MENA education and talent development landscape is strongly preferred.
- Arabic language ability is an asset.
Contract Duration
- 12 month freelance contract
Location
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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