The Director – Project Management Office (PMO) is a senior enterprise leadership position responsible for establishing, leading, and continuously developing Tharaa’s Project Management Office as a central governance, performance, planning, and strategic execution function.
The role provides the CEO and executive leadership with an integrated view of the organization's development portfolio, projects, programs, priorities, risks, resources, costs, schedules, commercial performance, and strategic commitments.
The PMO Director ensures that Tharaa's projects and development initiatives are not managed as isolated activities, but as an integrated portfolio of investments and strategic outcomes, governed through consistent standards, disciplined decision-making, reliable information, and clear accountability.
The position establishes the frameworks, controls, reporting mechanisms, governance disciplines, and performance standards necessary to ensure that projects are:
Strategically aligned → Properly planned → Commercially understood → Effectively governed → Professionally executed → Measurably delivered.
The PMO Director serves as a critical bridge between strategy and execution, enabling executive management to make timely, evidence-based decisions while ensuring that project teams retain clear operational accountability.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1- Define the PMO mandate, governance framework, operating model, authority, responsibilities and interfaces.
2- Establish clear project governance requirements based on project size, complexity, risk and strategic importance.
3- Define minimum project-management requirements and mandatory controls.
4- Monitor portfolio capacity, resources, risks and interdependencies, level of cost, schedule and performance trends.
5- Identify conflicts between projects and strategic priorities.
6- The PMO Director shall establish appropriate governance gates, including:
7- Establish an integrated project-performance framework covering: Scope, Schedule, Cost, Quality, Risk, Commercial, Resources.
8- The PMO shall provide the CEO and executive management with appropriate:
9- The PMO should identify emerging problems before they become material business consequences.
10- Lead the development of an integrated project-controls environment covering:
11- Establish an integrated project and portfolio risk framework.
12- Support management in evaluating major projects and initiatives before committing significant resources.
13- Establish a systematic lessons-learned process.
Skills
Preferred
Master's degree in relevant field.
PMP, PgMP, PMI-PMOCP, PRINCE2, AACE, RICS or equivalent professional qualification.
Experience with real-estate development organizations.
Experience establishing a PMO from the ground up.
Experience with large-scale or multi-project portfolios.
15+ years of relevant professional experience
Strategic
Technical
Leadership
