EPMO Governance & Project Delivery Resources
1. Position Overview
The organization is seeking EPMO Governance and Project Delivery resources to support the governance, monitoring, reporting, coordination, and delivery oversight of strategic projects and portfolios.
The resources will operate within the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) governance framework and will be responsible for ensuring that assigned projects are appropriately governed, progress is accurately reported, risks and issues are actively managed, and actions and decisions are followed through to closure.
Role Profile – Associate Governance Specialist
Position
Associate Governance Specialist
Required Experience
4–8 years of relevant experience in project management, PMO/EPMO, project governance, or project delivery.
Role Purpose
The Associate Governance Specialist will govern assigned projects, coordinate delivery follow-up, maintain project governance documentation, and support portfolio reporting under the direction of the EPMO Governance Senior Specialist.
The role requires strong attention to detail, stakeholder coordination, analytical judgment, and the ability to proactively follow up on project commitments and escalate exceptions.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain project plans, trackers, milestone schedules, RAID logs, decision logs, action registers, dependency registers, and supporting documentation.
- Monitor project progress against approved plans and milestones.
- Track overdue actions and deliverables and follow up with accountable owners.
- Identify project delays, risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery constraints.
- Support mitigation and recovery planning and monitor actions through closure.
- Lead or facilitate assigned project status and governance meetings.
- Prepare agendas, meeting materials, minutes, action logs, and follow-up communications.
- Document project decisions and ensure appropriate owners and target dates are recorded.
- Escalate material exceptions, unresolved issues, and overdue actions through the appropriate governance channels.
- Prepare weekly, monthly, and ad hoc project status updates.
- Support the preparation of dashboards and executive presentations.
- Validate project information for accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
- Coordinate business and technology stakeholders.
- Support consolidation of project information for portfolio-level reporting.
- Provide timely information and analysis to the EPMO Governance Senior Specialist.
- Ensure project documentation is maintained in accordance with EPMO standards and governance requirements.
Mandatory Qualifications and Experience
Candidates must meet all of the following requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
- 4–8 years of relevant experience in project management, PMO/EPMO, project governance, or project delivery.
- Active PMP certification.
- Certification number or verifiable credential must be provided.
- Proven experience in the financial sector, including banking, FinTech, financial services, or another financial institution.
- Proven experience leading/managing both:
- Technical projects, and
- Business projects.
- Proven experience in project governance and delivery management, including plans, milestones, status reporting, RAID, decisions, actions, escalations, and delivery follow-up.
- Proven cross-functional stakeholder management experience involving business, technology, and relevant control/support functions.
- Strong English communication skills, including meeting facilitation, written reporting, and presentation skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Arabic fluency is strongly preferred for stakeholder engagement and meeting facilitation.
- Additional PMO, project management, Agile/Scrum, or related certifications are advantageous.
Required Skills and Competencies
All resources should demonstrate:
Governance and Delivery
- Strong understanding of project and portfolio governance.
- Ability to monitor delivery against approved plans and commitments.
- Strong understanding of RAID, action, dependency, decision, and milestone management.
- Ability to identify exceptions and escalate matters appropriately.
- Strong follow-through and ownership of assigned actions.
Analytical and Reporting Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
- Ability to challenge project information and identify inconsistencies.
- Ability to consolidate complex project information into concise management updates.
- Strong attention to detail and data accuracy.
- Ability to identify trends, risks, dependencies, and emerging delivery concerns.
Stakeholder Management
- Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
- Ability to work effectively across business and technology teams.
- Experience engaging senior stakeholders and project sponsors.
- Strong meeting facilitation and coordination skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and stakeholders.
Communication
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
- Ability to prepare concise executive reports and presentations.
- Ability to communicate complex project matters clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Arabic fluency is strongly preferred.
Tools and Technology
Candidates should have strong working knowledge of:
Mandatory / Core Tools
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Project
Preferred Tools and Platforms
- Jira
- EPM/PPM platforms
- Trello
- Power BI
Candidates should demonstrate the ability to use project management and reporting tools to maintain project information, analyze delivery performance, develop dashboards, and communicate project and portfolio status.
Expected Governance Deliverables
Depending on the assigned projects and portfolio, resources will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and/or coordinating the following:
- Project and portfolio status reports.
- Weekly and monthly management reports.
- Executive dashboards.
- Executive presentations.
- Project plans.
- Milestone and delivery trackers.
- RAID registers.
- Risk and issue logs.
- Action registers.
- Dependency registers.
- Decision logs.
- Deliverable registers.
- Governance meeting agendas.
- Meeting minutes.
- Committee materials.
- Escalation reports.
- Recovery and mitigation action plans.
- Project and portfolio performance summaries.
- Ad hoc management and executive reporting.
