Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
The consultant will be embedded within the client team and will work closely with a small team of around five people, helping to bring structure, pace, and quality to day-to-day programme activity.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the leadership across day-to-day programme and workstream activity.
- Engage with internal and external stakeholders and teams.
- Help coordinate progress across multiple workstreams, ensuring actions, risks, dependencies, and updates are clearly tracked.
- Support programme management activities including meeting preparation, reporting, progress assessments, and follow-up actions.
- Prepare high-quality PowerPoint materials, written updates, trackers, and visual content.
- Support storyboarding, storylining, and structuring of presentations and project materials.
- Help assess progress across workstreams and highlight areas requiring attention or escalation.
- Work closely with a small embedded team to maintain momentum and execution discipline.
- Bring awareness of marketing communications, corporate communications, PR, or government tourism-related topics where relevant.
Key Requirements:
- 3-5 years experience in consulting, strategy, PMO, programme support, or workstream coordination.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- Strong consulting toolkit, including PowerPoint, Excel, storyboarding, storylining, visual content, and written communication.
- Good understanding of programme management and progress reporting.
- Ability to work on the client site in an embedded team environment.
- Arabic language skills are likely required, due to the stakeholder environment.
- Exposure to marcomms, corporate communications, PR, government, tourism, or destination-related ecosystems would be highly beneficial.
- Strong work ethic, attention to detail, and ability to work at pace.
Desired Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is a sharp, proactive consultant who can quickly understand the client environment, build trust with stakeholders, and support the Strategy & PMO Director in keeping programme activity structured and moving forward. They do not need to be a deep marcomms specialist, but some exposure to marketing communications, corporate communications, PR, government, or tourism would be a strong advantage.