Design Projects Manager

<div><h3>A. Delivery&Portfolio Management</h3><ul><li>Own end-to-end delivery accountability for all assigned design projects from contract award through design completion, ensuring every milestone, submission, and contractual obligation is met in full.</li><li>Manage a concurrent portfolio of projects across multiple sectors and scales, maintaining clear project health visibility at all times through structured reporting and milestone tracking.</li><li>Assign and direct the work of the Assistant Design Projects Manager across specific projects, calibrating workload to complexity and priority.</li><li>Develop and maintain master project delivery programmes, identifying critical path items, inter‑dependency risks, and resource pinch points well in advance of impact.</li><li>Lead project kick‑off processes, establishing delivery frameworks, communication protocols, and submission schedules aligned with the contract and client expectations.</li></ul><h3>B. Contractual Governance&Scope Management</h3><ul><li>Serve as the primary contractual interface for all assigned projects — thoroughly understanding the scope of work, deliverable schedules, and obligations defined in each design services agreement.</li><li>Monitor scope boundaries rigorously, identifying and formally processing all scope deviations, change orders, and variation requests in accordance with the contract mechanism and firm policy.</li><li>Maintain a live contractual tracker for each project, documenting all amendments, approvals, extensions of time, and outstanding obligations.</li><li>Ensure that all design submissions are reviewed for scope compliance and completeness prior to issue to the client or authority.</li><li>Manage project closeout processes, ensuring all contractual deliverables are formally accepted, archived, and signed off.</li></ul><h3>C. Client&Stakeholder Management</h3><ul><li>Act as the principal point of contact for clients across the project portfolio — building trusted, long‑term relationships with both private developers and government/semi‑government entities.</li><li>Lead client meetings, design review workshops, authority coordination sessions, and stakeholder presentations — preparing structured agendas, facilitating productive discussions, and producing formal minutes of meetings.</li><li>Manage client expectations proactively, communicating progress, risks, and decisions with clarity and professionalism at all times.</li><li>Navigate government authority submission and approval processes — including MOMRAH, municipality, and other relevant regulatory bodies — coordinating submission strategies with the technical team.</li><li>Represent the firm at project sites, client offices, and authority counters as required, maintaining the highest standards of professional conduct.</li></ul><h3>D. Commercial Management&Fee Control</h3><ul><li>Own the commercial performance of each assigned project — tracking actual hours consumed against planned fee budgets on a regular basis, and taking corrective action when consumption trends exceed projections.</li><li>Prepare and present regular project financial health reports to the Design Director, highlighting fee burn rates, over‑run risks, and commercial exposure.</li><li>Coordinate with the Operations Manager to align production planning with fee budget availability, ensuring that design team deployment is commercially justified.</li><li>Manage the identification, appointment, and contractual engagement of sub‑consultants and specialist advisors on a project‑by‑project basis — covering disciplines or scopes that fall outside the firm's core services, or are engaged to manage production capacity constraints.</li><li>Prepare sub‑consultant scope briefs, evaluate proposals, negotiate fees, and administer sub‑consultant agreements throughout the project lifecycle.</li><li>Track sub‑consultant deliverable schedules and fee drawdowns, ensuring alignment with the master project programme and the client contract.</li></ul><h3>E. Internal Coordination with Operations</h3><ul><li>Work in close and structured collaboration with the Operations Manager to ensure design team resourcing, production scheduling, and delivery timelines are fully aligned across all active projects.</li><li>Communicate client priorities, scope changes, and submission schedule updates to the Operations Manager promptly to enable agile production planning.</li><li>Participate in regular operations and project management coordination meetings, contributing portfolio‑level visibility and flagging cross‑project resource conflicts.</li><li>Escalate unresolved delivery risks or inter‑disciplinary coordination issues to the Design Director with clear problem statements and proposed resolution paths.</li><li>Provide day‑to‑day direction, mentorship, and performance guidance to the Assistant Design Projects Manager and Document Controller.</li><li>Foster a high‑performance project management culture within the team — promotin