Director - Stakeholder, Community & Interface Management

Qiddiya Investment Company

1. Design and implement a comprehensive stakeholder and community engagement strategy that supports Qiddiya Transport s long-term objectives.

2. Build and maintain trust-based relationships with senior stakeholders across government, industry, utility providers, and the local community.

3. Develop communication and engagement templates, briefings, and stakeholder insight tools that support proactive, coordinated engagement across all transport modes.

4. Act as the primary point of contact for escalated stakeholder matters, managing sensitivities and ensuring reputational integrity.

5. Collaborate with internal teams (legal, projects, government affairs, operations) to ensure stakeholder input is reflected in planning and execution phases.

6. Lead the identification, planning, and implementation of formal interface agreements with external entities including ministries, regulators, developers, and utility providers.

7. Draft, negotiate, and operationalize interface agreements (NDAs, MOUs, interface/partnership agreements), ensuring alignment on roles, responsibilities, design criteria, access requirements, and operational dependencies.

8. Drive coordination between Qiddiya s internal technical teams and third-party stakeholders to ensure smooth project integration across jurisdictional or physical boundaries.

9. Establish performance tracking, reporting, and dispute resolution mechanisms for ongoing interface agreement management.

10. Implement a Digital Engineering approach for clash detection, visualization, and engineering management to enhance interface integration.

11. Build and lead a high-performance stakeholder, community, and interface management team, defining clear roles, accountabilities and development plans; foster an environment of continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and legacy building within the function and across the Business Unit.

Qualifications:

Bachelor s degree in engineering, Transport Systems, Infrastructure, or a related technical discipline.

Experience:

Deep understanding of infrastructure lifecycle, transport operations, and the role of interface agreements in complex projects.

Proven experience operating in the Middle East, with a detailed understanding of inter-governmental and regulatory frameworks in the region.

Demonstrated ability to develop interface agreements from inception through execution and operational management.

Experience delivering or supporting large-scale, multi-modal transport projects across complex jurisdictional and physical boundaries.

A track record of leading and mentoring multidisciplinary teams in high-pressure environments.