Stakeholder Engineer

KEO International Consultants; Doha; On-site; QAR 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

KEO International Consultants in Doha, Qatar is seeking a Stakeholder Management Engineer to lead engagement with government bodies, utilities, developers, and other stakeholders for major projects.

The role focuses on securing approvals, resolving interface issues, and ensuring timely delivery. Requires a strong track record in stakeholder management and MMUP/UPDA registration, with fluency in English and Arabic.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification.
• 14+ years of overall professional experience, including at least 7 years in a similar stakeholder management role.
• MMUP/UPDA registration in Qatar.
• Fluency in English and Arabic is essential.

Responsibilities

• Develop stakeholder management, interface, and communication plans aligned with project requirements.
• Coordinate with government authorities, municipalities, utility providers, developers, and other stakeholders.
• Build and maintain relationships to facilitate collaboration and timely project delivery.
• Coordinate with design teams and service providers to identify interfaces and address requirements.
• Plan and lead engagement activities to secure approvals, permits, and NOCs; monitor status.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Relationship building

Communication

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Overview

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 60 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is recognized by ENR as one of the Top 225 International Design Firms and one of the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms. We are also ranked by World Architecture as the 51st largest global architecture firm and the #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2024 WA100 Survey.

We invite you to join us. Why?

When you join KEO, you’ll discover more than just a job – you’ll find a supportive environment that fosters your professional development through internal global mobility and career development and does so within a culture that supports company-wide health and well-being through on-demand counselling services and regular workplace clinics. You will be invited to celebrate community events such as sports days, fun-runs, in-house sports teams and beach clean ups. In addition to your competitive package and benefits you will have access to a suite of policies that include hybrid working arrangements, individual athletic sponsorship, study assistance sponsorship, employee referral rewards.

Responsibilities

Our newest opportunity is for a talented Stakeholder Management Engineer to join our award-winning team in Doha, Qatar.

This position is responsible for managing stakeholder interfaces and engagement activities, building effective relationships with government authorities, utility providers, developers, and other relevant stakeholders to facilitate the successful delivery of projects. The role involves coordinating stakeholder requirements, securing necessary approvals and No Objection Certificates (NOCs), resolving interface issues, and monitoring outstanding stakeholder-related matters.

We envisage success in this role to include:

• Developing and implementing stakeholder management, interface, and communication plans in line with project requirements.

• Managing stakeholder interfaces and coordinating with government authorities, municipalities, utility providers, developers, and other relevant parties.

• Building and maintaining effective relationships with key stakeholders to facilitate collaboration and timely project delivery.

• Coordinating with design teams, discipline leads, and service providers to identify potential interfaces, assess impacts, and address stakeholder requirements.

• Planning and leading stakeholder engagement activities to secure approvals, permits, and NOCs, while monitoring and reporting on their status and outstanding issues.

• Developing stakeholder mapping, follow-up strategies, communication plans, and mitigation measures to address potential risks and delays.

• Facilitating communication between project teams and stakeholders to resolve conflicts and support project progress.

• Monitoring and resolving stakeholder-related issues and interface conflicts arising at construction sites.

• Maintaining accurate stakeholder databases, engagement records, correspondence, project documentation, and action logs.

• Reporting stakeholder interface issues, approval delays, and unresolved matters to the Senior Resident Engineer or Resident Engineer.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you will possess:

• A Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Arts, or equivalent qualification.

• More than 14 years of overall professional experience, including a minimum of 7 years in a similar stakeholder management role.

• MMUP/UPDA registration in Qatar.

• Fluency in both English and Arabic, which is essential for this role.

KEO’s performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety and our people. We embrace diversity and recognise its’ contribution to client success wherever we work.

We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award-winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.