Strategic Planning Manager ( Emirati )

To design, implement, monitor, and continuously improve the authority's strategic and operational plans, ensuring alignment with national and global directions, and enabling the authority to achieve short‑ and long‑term objectives efficiently and effectively.

• Sector: Strategy
• Department: Strategy & Performance
• Section: Strategic Planning
• Grade: 14

Responsibilities

1. Strategic & Operational Planning

• Develop and implement the department's strategic, operational, KPI, and budget plans.
• Ensure alignment with the authority's overall strategy and government priorities.
• Maintain and update an integrated strategic and operational planning system across all organizational units.

2. Performance & Indicators Management

• Oversee development, monitoring, and updating of strategic and operational KPIs.
• Coordinate with the Institutional Performance section to ensure accurate target setting and measurement.

3. Organizational Structure & Mandates

• Review, update, and redesign the authority's organizational structure.
• Assess justification for structural changes and measure efficiency and effectiveness.

4. Strategic Initiatives & Execution Monitoring

• Conduct periodic reviews of initiatives submitted by departments.
• Compare initiative progress against strategic plan expectations and submit recommendations.
• Prepare periodic reports on strategic and operational plan execution.

5. Risk Management Integration

• Support enterprise risk management from a strategic planning perspective.
• Ensure risk evaluation, mitigation plans, and awareness across all units.

6. Competitive Benchmarking

• Monitor and analyze competitive indicators locally and internationally.
• Recommend initiatives to enhance the authority's competitiveness.

7. Strategic Culture & Awareness

• Lead awareness workshops and training to strengthen strategic planning culture.
• Measure effectiveness of strategic planning practices.

8. Specialized Strategies & Evaluation

• Develop mechanisms to evaluate specialized strategies and track their projects and indicators.
• Propose improvement plans based on excellence and quality standards.

9. Organizational Weighting System

• Develop a methodology to calculate organizational unit weights based on strategic impact.
• Provide measurement requirements and coordinate with internal/external stakeholders.

10. Government Alignment & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with Qarar system requirements.
• Coordinate with the Executive Council on initiatives, projects, and indicators.
• Ensure adherence to all policies, procedures, safety, environmental, and information security standards.

Operational Responsibilities

• Provide periodic data and reports to support decision‑making and operational excellence.
• Identify performance gaps and recommend corrective actions to reduce risks and downtime.

Financial Management

• Provide inputs for budget preparation.
• Monitor budget implementation and report variances with corrective recommendations.

People Management

• Develop unified strategies for workforce planning, talent acquisition, and training.
• Set departmental objectives and review mid‑year and annual performance.
• Identify competencies and provide operational guidance to staff.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in strategic planning, Business Administration, Planning & Organization, Data Analysis, or equivalent.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in strategic and operational planning.
• Strong knowledge in risk and crisis management.
• Experience in structured activity planning and monitoring.
• Capability building and employee empowerment.
• Process simplification and optimization.
• Analytical and creative thinking.

Technical

• Strategic planning & performance management (Advanced)
• Institutional excellence (Advanced)