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Job Description:
Parsons is seeking an accomplished Program Director to lead a high-profile portfolio of projects for a key government client in the UAE. This is a senior leadership role for a commercially minded program leader who can strengthen client trust, drive portfolio performance, and lead multidisciplinary teams across complex infrastructure programs.
What You'll Be Doing:
Lead the strategic planning, governance, and performance management of a major project portfolio for a government client.
Serve as Parsons’ senior client-facing leader, building trusted relationships with executive stakeholders, partners, and delivery teams.
Oversee portfolio performance across safety, quality, scope, schedule, cost, risk, commercial outcomes, and stakeholder satisfaction.
Provide clear leadership, reporting, escalation, and decision support to Parsons leadership and client representatives.
Direct multidisciplinary project teams and ensure the right resources, capability, and delivery focus are in place.
Drive strong commercial discipline, including forecasting, margin performance, contract management, change control, and risk mitigation.
Identify opportunities to expand Parsons’ role, improve delivery performance, and strengthen long-term client partnership.
Model Parsons’ values through visible leadership, accountability, collaboration, and commitment to safety and quality.
What Required Skills You'll Bring:
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, or a related discipline.
20+ years of progressive leadership experience in infrastructure, construction, engineering, project management, or program management.
Proven experience leading large, complex projects, programs, or portfolios for government or public-sector clients.
Strong commercial, financial, contractual, risk management, and operational leadership capability.
Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams across complex stakeholder environments.
Executive-level communication skills with the ability to influence senior clients, partners, and internal leadership.
Strong understanding of project controls, governance, safety, quality, design management, and construction delivery.
What Desired Skills You'll Bring:
Advanced degree, professional certification, or recognized program/project management qualification.
Experience in the Middle East and/or with UAE government entities.
Strong market insight and the ability to support client growth, portfolio expansion, and strategic positioning.
Experience improving program governance, recovering project performance, or leading complex stakeholder alignment.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, or a related discipline
- 20+ years of progressive leadership experience in infrastructure, construction, engineering, project management, or program management
- Experience leading large, complex projects, programs, or portfolios for government or public-sector clients
- Strong commercial, financial, contractual, risk management, and operational leadership capability
- Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams across complex stakeholder environments
- Executive-level communication skills and ability to influence senior clients, partners, and internal leadership
- Understanding of project controls, governance, safety, quality, design management, and construction delivery
- Advanced degree, professional certification, or recognized program/project management qualification
- Experience in the Middle East and/or with UAE government entities
- Market insight supporting client growth, portfolio expansion, and strategic positioning
- Experience improving program governance, recovering project performance, or leading complex stakeholder alignment
Parsons Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Parsons Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by Parsons Corporation.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are framed as a major value driver, with an ESOP alongside a 401(k) match and additional stock-purchase options contributing meaningfully to total rewards. This structure is positioned as especially attractive for employees who value long-term wealth-building over immediate cash.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad and choice-rich, with multiple plan types (PPO, HDHP, and some HMO networks) plus dental, vision, EAP, and wellness resources. The availability of different plan designs and national-carrier coverage supports varied employee needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are portrayed as competitive, including PTO, holidays, flexible schedules such as a 9/80 option for eligible roles, and floating holidays in the U.S. Paid parental leave of 160 hours is also highlighted as a meaningful component of the overall package.
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What We Do
Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider with a focus on making the world safer, smarter, healthier, more sustainable, and more connected. Founded in 1944, Parsons primarily serves the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. Uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology-based intellectual property, and other innovative services, the corporation delivers state-of-the-art solutions to federal, regional, and local government agencies as well as to private industrial customers worldwide. Parsons has a reputation for inclusion and diversity and has been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s list of World’s Most Ethical Companies for 10 consecutive years. Parsons facilitates a culture of innovation by encouraging collaboration among its employees and providing opportunities for career growth. With offices around the globe, people of varied talents and backgrounds, and a wide range of exciting projects, the possibilities at Parsons are endless. For more about Parsons, visit www.parsons.com. Mission: Delivering innovative infrastructure, defense, and security solutions to enable a more sustainable, safer, smarter, and more connected world.
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