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Manager - Projects - Aldar Education

Aldar Education
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Full Time
Manager
1 weeks ago
Project ManagementPMO GovernanceStakeholder ManagementRisk ManagementMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft PowerPoint
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Job Description

  • Aldar Education is seeking an outstanding Manager Projects. This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled professional to join the highly successful Aldar family of schools and to help shape the future of Abu Dhabi’s leading school group.
  • Responsible for the end to end delivery of assigned strategic programmes, priority projects and PMO workstreams, ensuring projects are delivered in line with agreed scope, schedule, budget, quality and governance requirements.
  • The role leads project planning, execution, stakeholder engagement, risk management and reporting while driving timely decision making and effective delivery across multiple business functions.
  • The Project Manager also contributes to the continuous improvement of PMO governance, methodologies, reporting standards and project management practices.

Main Duties

  • Project Delivery & Planning: Lead the delivery of assigned projects from initiation through to closure, ensuring agreed objectives, scope, timelines and deliverables are achieved.
  • Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, governance documentation and delivery roadmaps.
  • Manage project scope, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and change requests throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Monitor project performance and implement corrective actions to maintain delivery against agreed objectives.
  • Drive timely decision making by identifying issues requiring management input and escalating where appropriate.
  • Coordinate project mobilisation, execution, transition, handover and closure activities.
  • PMO Governance & Reporting: Ensure projects comply with PMO governance standards, methodologies and reporting requirements.
  • Prepare regular project status reports, highlighting progress, risks, key decisions, milestones and delivery issues.
  • Maintain accurate and auditable project documentation, ensuring appropriate version control and record management.
  • Monitor project health through RAID logs, action trackers and governance reporting.
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of PMO processes, templates, reporting standards and governance practices.
  • Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Specific Duties

  • Develop and maintain project charters, integrated project plans, schedules, RAID logs, stakeholder registers, communication plans, decision logs and project documentation.
  • Track project milestones, dependencies, deliverables and critical paths across assigned projects.
  • Prepare weekly, fortnightly and executive project reports, highlighting progress, risks, issues, overdue actions and decisions required.
  • Coordinate project activities across Education, Operations, Enrolments, Finance, Procurement, DTS, Marketing, P&C, Licensing, schools and external stakeholders.
  • Plan and coordinate governance meetings, project reviews and management meetings, including agendas, presentations, meeting minutes and action tracking.
  • Prepare executive presentations, briefing papers and project updates for senior leadership and governance forums.
  • Monitor project risks, issues, dependencies and change requests, ensuring appropriate mitigation and escalation.
  • Coordinate approvals and governance decisions through the appropriate project approval processes.
  • Support procurement, CAPEX, operational readiness and school development activities where assigned.
  • Coordinate project handover, project closure, lessons learned and outstanding action tracking.
  • Maintain organised project records, ensuring all project documentation is current, accessible and audit ready.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree from a recognised university.
  • Project management certification is preferred: PMP, PRINCE2 Foundation, CAPM, Agile, Scrum or equivalent.
  • Candidates without PMP should demonstrate strong project management knowledge and will be expected to obtain PMP certification within an agreed timeframe after joining.

Minimum Experience

  • 7–9 years' experience in project management, PMO, business transformation, operations or management consulting, with a proven track record of delivering cross functional projects from initiation to completion.
  • Experience within education, real estate, capital projects or multi site organisations is advantageous.

Job Specific Knowledge & Skills

  • Strong knowledge of project management principles, governance frameworks and delivery methodologies.
  • Demonstrated experience managing project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, stakeholders and change control.
  • Ability to develop and maintain project plans, RAID logs, governance documentation, executive reports and project records.
  • Experience facilitating workshops, governance meetings and executive presentations.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills across multiple business functions.
  • Strong analytical, organisational and problem solving skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and Planner skills; Microsoft Project and Power BI are advantageous.
  • Demonstrated ability to leverage AI enabled tools (e.g. Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude or equivalent) to improve project planning, reporting, documentation, analysis and delivery while maintaining appropriate governance and confidentiality.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information clearly and concisely.
  • Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities and deliver results in a fast paced environment.

What We Offer

  • Aldar Education is a family of world class, child centered, and innovative schools based in the UAE.
  • We offer an attractive remuneration package including medical cover, flights, housing, and free child school places.
  • Our future focused learning model includes both students and staff and so we place a special emphasis on professional development, coaching and training.
  • Successful candidates will have access to a wide network of professionals and opportunities to both lead and contribute to training others as well as developing themselves.

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