Associate – Strategic Planning & Governance
ALDAR
Date: 12 hours ago
City: Abu Dhabi
Contract type: Contractor
Job Purpose
Roles And Responsibilities
4+ years of experience in IT strategy, planning, governance, or related areas.
Technical And Interpersonal Skills
- Support the development, implementation, and monitoring of IT strategic plans and governance framework, project portfolio management initiatives across Aldar Group.
- Align IT capabilities with business priorities, maintaining architectural and governance standards, managing IT performance and contracts, and enabling digitization
Roles And Responsibilities
- Assist in the development and periodic refresh of Aldar’s group-wide digital strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and federated governance principles.
- Support the formulation of digital objectives, initiatives, and performance metrics, ensuring business and technology alignment across entities.
- Contribute to the development of the annual IT budget, monitor expenditures, and highlight variances with corrective recommendations.
- Assist in the development and implementation of digital governance frameworks, policies, and procedures in alignment with Aldar Group standards.
- Support in organizing governance forums, monitoring IT compliance, and preparing materials for steering committees and executive reporting.
- Research and support development of EA methodologies and frameworks to promote platform interoperability and cohesive IT ecosystems across Aldar entities.
- Assist in managing IT commercial contracts, license agreements, and vendor relationships across group entities.
- Track IT service level agreements (SLAs), monitor vendor performance, ensure compliance with enterprise standards, and recommend service improvement initiatives.
- Contribute to the design and evolution of Aldar’s digitization framework covering ideation to realization stages across entities.
- Support in identifying and evaluating emerging technologies; assist in preparing business cases that assess feasibility, benefits, and implementation costs.
- Support change management, communication, and engagement efforts to enhance alignment on digital initiatives.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management, or a related field.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Exposure to enterprise IT environments and familiarity with frameworks such as COBIT, ITIL, TOGAF, or similar is an advantage.
4+ years of experience in IT strategy, planning, governance, or related areas.
Technical And Interpersonal Skills
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
- Great understanding of policies, procedures & work methods
- Demonstrated skills in building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Excellent organization skills
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