Project Director - PMO

Parsons is looking for an experienced Project Director – PMO to provide strategic leadership, governance, and oversight for the delivery of major residential, mixed-use, hospitality, and infrastructure developments. In this role, you will lead the PMO function across a complex portfolio of projects, establishing the governance, controls, reporting, and delivery frameworks required to achieve the Client’s strategic objectives.

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Responsibilities

• Lead the PMO function, providing strategic direction, governance, and delivery oversight.
• PMO frameworks, procedures, stage gates, KPIs, and reporting standards.
• Oversee projects from master planning and design through procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Drive integrated schedule, cost, risk, change, commercial, and performance management.
• Monitor portfolio performance, identifying key risks, dependencies, and corrective actions.
• Ensure effective integration across buildings, infrastructure, utilities, landscape, and public realm packages.
• Oversee consultants, contractors, and delivery teams to ensure alignment with Client objectives.
• Lead executive reviews and provide clear reporting on progress, cost, schedule, risk, and key decisions.
• PMO standardization, continuous improvement, digital delivery, and best practices.
• Lead and develop high-performing multidisciplinary PMO teams.
• Proven expertise in PMO governance, project controls, cost, schedule, risk, change, commercial, and performance management.

Requirements

• Required Skills You'll Bring Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, Project Management, or related discipline.
• 20+ years of experience, including significant senior leadership experience on major development programs.
• Proven experience as a Project Director, PMO Director, Program Director, or equivalent.
• Strong experience in residential, mixed-use, hospitality, and associated infrastructure developments.
• Experience overseeing multiple projects, consultants, contractors, and work packages within complex programs.
• Strong leadership, client management, stakeholder engagement, communication, and decision-making skills.
• Desired Skills You'll Bring Experience delivering large-scale real estate development programs in United Arab Emirates or the Middle East.
• Experience within a client-side, developer, PMO, or program management environment.
• Strong knowledge of BIM, digital project management, integrated controls, and executive dashboards.
• Professional certification such as PMP, PgMP, PE, CEng, RICS, or equivalent is preferred.

Benefits

• 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!

• Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.
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