Associate Director, Crisis and Resilience Consulting, Middle East

Control Risks; United Arab Emirates; Hybrid; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A consultancy specializing in resilience and risk management is seeking a consultant in the United Arab Emirates. The successful applicant will focus on organisational resilience, crisis and risk management in a consultancy setting. This role entails managing projects, supporting clients across multiple sectors, and integrating technology into service offerings. Candidates should possess a relevant bachelor's degree, professional certifications, and demonstrable expertise in resilience practices.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

Discretionary global bonus scheme

Flexible hybrid working arrangements

Qualifications

• Significant experience in delivering organisational resilience and risk management in consultancy.
• Fluent English speaking and writing skills are required.
• Professional certification in business continuity (e.g., IRM, CBCI) is essential.

Responsibilities

• Undertake consultancy focused on organisational resilience and crisis management.
• Manage a portfolio of projects ensuring delivery meets commercial targets.
• Drive technology integration within service offerings.

Skills

Organisational resilience

Project management

Client relationship building

Business continuity management

Security risk assessments

Crisis management

Cyber and information technology

Education

Relevant bachelor’s degree

Masters’ degree in risk management or related field

Job description

Origination and delivery of organisational resilience consulting projects across the Middle East, serving a range of sectors including leisure and entertainment, hospitality, real estate development, financial services, government, and industrial manufacturing.

The successful applicant will be a part of our growing Middle East Hub team, supporting clients in the Middle East as part of our broader EMEA team of over 100 crisis and security consultants.

The role will require some travel around the region, predominantly to KSA and other GCC countries.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Undertaking fee earning consultancy, with a primary focus on organisational resilience: business continuity management planning, crisis management planning, emergency response planning, enterprise risk management consulting.
• Secondary focus on security risk consulting: security risk assessments (site/project/supply-chain/business), security policy and planning consultancy, security/risk maturity assessments and risk workshops.
• Practice development and management: Manage a portfolio of projects, steering delivery and ensuring commercial targets are met.
• Support our people in their personal development in the broad Risk & Resilience domain through mentoring, coaching and real-time feedback.
• Drive technology enablement and integration of emerging tech in our service offerings, methodologies and delivery toolkits.
• Operational planning and project management of client engagements.
• Adopt innovative approaches to development of current practices and new solutions.
• Business development / commercial management: Client liaison, as a trusted advisor for Control Risks in order to develop client relationships across the full breadth of capabilities.
• Create and lead business development efforts, thought leadership and innovation.
• Ensure requests from clients and prospects are dealt with effectively.
• Support to proposal creation and project budget build-ups prior to sign-off by designated managers.
• Provide accurate information on pipeline activity.

Compensation and Benefits

Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarised in the full job offer. We operate a discretionary global bonus scheme that incentivises, and rewards individuals based on company and individual performance.

Control Risks supports hybrid working arrangements, wherever possible, that emphasise the value of in-person time together - in the office and with our clients - while continuing to support flexible and remote working.

Equal Opportunity

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us and are fully committed to equal treatment, free from discrimination, of all candidates throughout our recruitment process.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made in order to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know and we will be happy to accommodate your needs.

Knowledge and Experience

• ESSENTIAL: Significant, recent and relevant experience of delivering organisational resilience, (enterprise) risk and business continuity management engagements in a consultancy setting.
• Significant experience of working and living in the GCC.
• Demonstrated subject matter expertise in organisational resilience, (enterprise) risk, and business continuity management.
• Strong affinity with cyber and information technology.
• Demonstratable project management skills.
• PREFERRED: Experience of working across several sectors, including public sector, finance, hospitality, leisure, real estate, construction, industrial and energy / oil & gas.
• Proven ability to build successful client relationships.
• Experience in project budgeting, project management, and project closure processes.

Qualifications and Specialist Skills

• ESSENTIAL: Relevant bachelor’s degree.
• Fluent English speaking and writing.
• Professional certification in business continuity or enterprise risk (e.g., IRM, CBCI / CBCP or equivalent).
• Excellent writing and presentation skills.
• Ability to present information to clients in a professional setting.
• Ability to quickly assimilate large quantities of new information.
• PREFERRED: Masters’ degree or post‑graduate qualification in either risk management, organisational resilience, business continuity management or disaster/emergency management.
• Fluent Arabic speaking and writing.