Stakeholder Manager (Government/Authority Coordinator)

Decima International is a professional services company, providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East. Our mission is to become the premier professional services provider across all industry sectors we are engaged in. To accomplish this, Decima International’s founders established a simple yet powerful formula:

Approach each client engagement as a partnership, create an environment that attracts the most talented professionals  and allows them to flourish, and regulate growth  to maintain excellence  in our service standards.

If you are interested in a long and rewarding career working with high-profile clients on some of the most challenging projects in the world, then Decima is where you belong. At Decima, you will be able to explore incredible growth and professional development opportunities.

We are seeking an accomplished and highly motivated Stakeholder Manager to lead stakeholder coordination and engagement activities for a large-scale data center project in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This client-facing role requires strong communication, coordination, and relationship management skills, with a focus on ensuring effective alignment between internal teams, clients, authorities, consultants, contractors, and other key project stakeholders.

The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of stakeholder management within large-scale construction, infrastructure, or mission-critical projects and will be capable of managing complex interfaces across multiple parties throughout the project lifecycle.

You will play a key role in supporting project delivery by maintaining clear communication channels, managing stakeholder expectations, resolving interface challenges, and ensuring that approvals, permits, decisions, and project requirements are properly coordinated and tracked.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead stakeholder management and coordination activities across the project, ensuring effective communication and alignment between all internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop, maintain, and update the stakeholder engagement plan, stakeholder register, communication matrix, and interface tracking tools.
• Identify key project stakeholders, including client representatives, government authorities, utility providers, consultants, contractors, vendors, local entities, and internal project teams.
• Manage day-to-day stakeholder communications, ensuring that project updates, requirements, decisions, risks, and actions are clearly communicated and documented.
• Coordinate with project managers, design teams, construction teams, consultants, contractors, and client representatives to resolve stakeholder-related issues and support project progress.
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings, workshops, coordination sessions, and progress reviews, ensuring clear agendas, action items, ownership, and follow-up.
• Track approvals, permits, authority submissions, NOCs, design reviews, technical decisions, and other stakeholder-dependent project deliverables.
• Monitor stakeholder concerns, constraints, and expectations, escalating critical matters to project leadership when required.
• Support interface management between different project disciplines, contractors, vendors, authorities, and client-side teams.
• Ensure stakeholder requirements are properly captured, communicated, and reflected in project plans, schedules, reports, and delivery strategies.
• Prepare regular stakeholder reports, dashboards, action trackers, meeting minutes, and executive summaries for project leadership and client review.
• Support the resolution of conflicts, communication gaps, and coordination challenges between project stakeholders.
• Coordinate with project controls, risk, commercial, design, procurement, construction, and commissioning teams to ensure stakeholder-related impacts are identified and managed.
• Maintain accurate records of stakeholder engagement activities, correspondence, commitments, approvals, risks, and decisions.
• Promote a collaborative project environment by building strong working relationships with stakeholders and supporting timely decision-making.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required qualifications:

• 15+ years of experience in stakeholder management, project coordination, interface management, project management, or construction management within large-scale construction, infrastructure, or mission-critical projects.
• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Engineering Management, Architecture, Business Administration, Communications, or a related field.
• Prior experience working on data center, mission-critical, infrastructure, industrial, utilities, or large-scale building projects.
• Strong understanding of stakeholder management principles, including stakeholder identification, engagement planning, communication management, issue resolution, and reporting.
• Experience working on hyperscale data centers or other large-scale, mission-critical facilities.
• Experience working in a PMC, owner’s representative, or client-side project management environment.
• Previous experience working in UAE or the wider GCC region.
• Knowledge of local authority coordination, permitting processes, utilities coordination, and regulatory requirements in the United Arab Emirates.
• Familiarity with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Power BI, Procore, Aconex, Oracle Primavera Cloud, or other project management and reporting platforms.
• Experience coordinating with clients, consultants, contractors, government authorities, utility providers, vendors, and multidisciplinary project teams.
• Experience managing authority approvals, permits, NOCs, submissions, technical reviews, and project-related stakeholder dependencies.
• Strong ability to manage complex interfaces across design, construction, procurement, commercial, project controls, and commissioning teams.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage confidently with senior stakeholders, client representatives, and technical teams.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to track multiple actions, approvals, decisions, and stakeholder commitments simultaneously.
• Ability to identify stakeholder-related risks, constraints, and dependencies and escalate issues in a timely and professional manner.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to resolve coordination challenges and support practical project delivery solutions.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering Management, Project Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Professional certifications such as PMP, RICS, APM, PMI-SP, or other relevant project/stakeholder management certifications.
• Arabic language capability is preferred but not required.

POSITION DETAILS

• Location (On-site): Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Position: Stakeholder Manager
• Position Classification: Salary-based full-time hours

Decima International is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to the safety and well-being of all. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, medical condition, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression and transgender status, mental disability or physical disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship, low-income status or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law.