Stakeholder Lead UAEN

The Stakeholder Lead is a leadership role within Modon's Project Delivery Office (PDO), responsible for leading all stakeholder, authority, and third party coordination across our developments. The role is fundamental to derisking project delivery through early, proactive, and structured engagement with government authorities, regulators, landowners, and external stakeholders.

The position provides strategic oversight and hands on leadership across stakeholder mapping, authority engagement, land and ROW protection, permitting pathways, and technical interface resolution. Drawing on strong UAE infrastructure experience, the Stakeholder Lead ensures that approvals, consents, and third party requirements are clearly understood, appropriately sequenced, and secured in alignment with programme and commercial objectives.

The role acts as the primary authority interface lead, working closely with development, design, construction, legal, and commercial teams to resolve stakeholder risks, confirm responsibilities, and maintain a coordinated and credible engagement strategy for Modon.

This is a self starter role suited to an agile, flexible individual comfortable working across multiple workstreams in a fast growing developer environment.

Roles, Responsibilities, Duties Stakeholder & Authority Engagement Leadership

• Lead engagement with all relevant stakeholders and authorities, including:
• Federal, emirate level, and municipal authorities
• Regulators and approval bodies
• Landowners and asset owners
• Utility providers and statutory undertakers
• Adjacent developers and third party projects
• Establish and maintain structured stakeholder engagement plans aligned with project stage, approvals strategy, and delivery programme.
• Act as the senior point of contact for authority and stakeholder discussions, ensuring a consistent, professional, and credible position is presented at all times.
• Build strong, trusted working relationships with key UAE authorities and agencies to support timely decision making and issue resolution.
• Ensure stakeholder feedback, conditions, and requirements are captured, tracked, and effectively embedded within project design and delivery strategies.

Permitting, Approvals & Regulatory Coordination

• Lead and coordinate approval strategies across the project lifecycle, including:
• Planning and zoning approvals
• Environmental and permitting consents
• Access, traffic, and utility approvals
• Construction permits and NOCs
• Operational readiness and handover approvals
• Define clear approval pathways, responsibilities, and timelines in coordination with design, construction, and commercial teams.
• Monitor, manage, and report on approval status, risks, and dependencies, proactively escalating issues where programme or risk exposure arises.
• Support the preparation and submission of approval documentation, ensuring technical, commercial, and stakeholder requirements are aligned.
• Work closely with legal and commercial teams to ensure approvals and conditions are reflected appropriately within contracts and agreements.

Land, ROW & Third Party Interface Management

• Lead confirmation and protection of:
• Land ownership boundaries
• Easements, access corridors, and third party constraints
• Interface with landowners, authorities, utilities, and third parties to secure agreements, protections, and access arrangements.
• Identify and manage risks associated with third party land, interfaces, and adjacent assets, ensuring mitigations are implemented early.
• Support negotiations related to land use, access, temporary occupations, and interfaces
• Ensure land and ROW constraints are clearly communicated and embedded within design development and construction planning.

Technical Interface & Issue Resolution

• Act as a key interface between stakeholders, authorities, and the technical delivery team to resolve:
• Authority technical comments and clarifications
• Third party technical constraints and requirements
• Coordinate technical queries and responses, ensuring alignment with set objectives.
• Support workshops, meetings, and technical reviews with authorities and stakeholders.
• Ensure stakeholder and authority requirements are translated into clear design inputs, approval conditions, and implementation actions.
• Identify and actively manage stakeholder, authority, land, and permitting risks.
• Provide input into:
• Programme and contingency planning
• Investment and governance submissions
• Proactively resolve or mitigate issues that may impact schedule, cost, constructability, or bankability.

Governance, Reporting & Internal Alignment

• Provide clear, timely reporting on stakeholder and approval status to senior management
• Support internal approvals, investment committee papers, and board submissions

Qualification Education

• Bachelor's degree in relevant subject, including but not limited to: civil engineering, construction management or project management (not critical)
• Minimum of 10 years' of highly relevant and direct experience in stakeholder manager activities, relating to infrastructure or major project environments, in the UAE (mandatory).
• Demonstrated experience leading complex stakeholder and authority interfaces within UAE infrastructure projects (mandatory).
• Strong understanding of UAE regulatory, approval, and governance environments.
• Confident communicator with the credibility to engage at senior government and executive levels.
• Pragmatic, structured, and solutions focused approach to issue resolution.
• Commercially aware, balancing stakeholder outcomes with programme, risk, and value objectives.
• Collaborative leadership style suited to multifaceted, multi party project environments.