Director - Strategic Planning & Team Lead

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Job Description

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Director - Strategic Planning & Team Lead to join our team! In this role you will get to work alongside mobility experts in the development of a large city in Saudi Arabia by aligning with key stakeholders to update city frameworks and other mobility governance policies and procedures.

What You'll Be Doing

• Building a wide network of key program stakeholders across development districts
• Analyzing the city framework plan to understand the demands for changes and updates
• Fact checking existing trackers
• Coordinating with stakeholders to align mobility reports with other discipline reports
• Logging the backlog of changes to the city framework plan and other governance reports
• Marking up and recommending city framework plan report modifications
• Managing the schedule of city framework plan updates, including internal stakeholder communications
• Managing staff to perform document management and graphic design duties within the team
• Participate in management meetings and activities with the Mobility team
  
  
  

What Required Skills You'll Bring

• Master's in Urban Planning, Public Policy, or equivalent
• 15+ years experience authoring or substantially revising policy documents
• Expertise in planning legislation, demographic analysis, and land-use economics
  
  
  

What Desired Skills You'll Bring

• Exceptional technical writing and presentation skills
• Ability to work within culturally-diverse team and quickly establish key relationships
• Experience working on giga projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  
  
  

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