Senior Organizational Structures & Governance Lead

Dubai Careers - A Smart Dubai Initiative; Dubai; On-site; AED 670,000 - 1,004,000; Full time

Job summary

Roads and Transport Authority in the United Arab Emirates seeks a senior leader to oversee organizational structure design, governance and related operating model updates. You will lead the structures management system, supervise documentation, and drive alignment with strategic priorities for agency-wide effectiveness.

The role requires extensive experience in governance, organizational design, and strategic execution, with collaboration across departments and strong analytical skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in business administration or HR.
• 9+ years experience if Master's degree; 11+ years if Bachelor's degree.
• Strong governance, strategic planning and data analysis capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead organizational structures management system and roles framework; align with RTA strategy and best practices; issue periodic reports.
• Direct studies to review and update structures and roles with agencies and sectors; align to needs and approved procedures.
• Govern operating model options and section formation including international best practices, structure scenarios and role clarity to support strategy execution.
• Provide advisory services on organization structure topics to RTA leadership and functions.
• Coordinate with concerned units to execute approved structure changes, role definitions and documentation updates.
• Review and revise roles and responsibilities for departments based on business needs and operating model changes.
• Oversee workshops and awareness sessions on structures and roles and documentation standards.
• Track implementation status of structure changes and submit progress reports per policy.
• Partner with HR to align job families, roles and Delegation of Authority implications for structure updates.
• Optimize revenue and costs through structure design, including spans and layers, shared services, consolidation and creation of sections.

Skills

Governance

Risk & Excellence

Institutional Development

Agility Systems

Operational Excellence

Service Innovation

Organizational Structure Design

Process Mapping

Optimization

Strategic Planning

Execution Management

Core Data Analysis

Reporting

Horizon Scanning

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in business administration/ human resources

Job description

Roads and Transport Authority in the United Arab Emirates seeks a senior leader to oversee organizational structure design, governance and related operating model updates. You will lead the structures management system, supervise documentation, and drive alignment with strategic priorities for agency-wide effectiveness.

The role requires extensive experience in governance, organizational design, and strategic execution, with collaboration across departments and strong analytical skills.