Project Manager
DUBAI FUTURE FOUNDATION
Posted on 11 Dec
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Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
As a Project Manager within Sandbox Dubai, you will lead and manage sandbox programs and projects, including regulatory experiments, industry pilots, and innovation frameworks from concept to delivery or handover. You will manage multiple sandbox projects, deploy and enhance processes, coordinate cross-functional teams, drive project timelines, engage diverse Future Foundation s strategic goals.
Project Management
Full Project Lifecycle: Manage the full project cycle including managing projects timelines, budgets, milestones, setting objectives, monitoring and tracking progress, post project analysis and reporting.
Project Development: Pitch sandbox projects with business cases, feasibility reports, and risk assessments tailored to sandbox-specific initiatives.
Sandbox Design & Execution: Develop sandbox programs focused on regulatory experiments, technology validation, and proof-of-concept pilots across Sandbox priority areas (Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech, Green technology, and Real Estate technology).
Global Tech Monitoring: Track international regulatory and innovation trends in key priority sectors to enhance the design of future sandbox initiatives and connect global themes/trends with opportunities for Dubai.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinate with legal, policy, strategy, and partnership teams to ensure project compliance and cross-sector success.
Documentation: Create and maintain project records, perform lessons-learned assessments, and present reports to senior management.
Team Collaboration: Communicate regularly with Sandbox team members and stakeholders to ensure projects run smoothly, providing updates to the Head of Operations and Director of Sandbox Dubai.
Stakeholder Engagement and Third-Party Relationships. Partner and collaborate with industry leaders, government agencies, startups, and regulatory bodies to align project goals. Ensure regular communication, and logistics are in place. Lead workshops, roundtables, and innovation sessions with relevant stakeholders to drive regulatory alignment and operational readiness. Collaborate with the Legal, Strategy, and Policy Teams to define regulatory exemptions, licensing terms, and compliance protocols. Work closely with finance, procurement and other internal teams to oversee procurement, invoices, and contracts ensuring legal compliance in all transactions. Support the development of policy proposals, regulatory models, and whitepapers in collaboration with Policy and Legal Teams. Ensure all projects comply with Sandbox governance frameworks, legal protocols, and international regulatory standards. Collaborate with the Marketing & Communications Teams to enhance project visibility through media outreach and branding campaigns.
Desired Candidate Profile
Education: Bachelor s degree in a relevant field such as Public Policy, Law, Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, Artificial Intelligence, or Technology Management. A Master s degree is preferred.
Experience: Minimum of 7 years experience in project management, regulatory frameworks, or innovation-driven programs with a proven track record of multi-project management.
Specialization: Demonstrated experience in regulatory frameworks related projects, innovation ecosystems, and emerging tech pilots. Industry Expertise: Experience working with government agencies, private sector entities, international organizations and technology hubs is required. Experience in one or more of the key priority thematic areas (AI/Technology, Healthcare, Infrastructure/Real Estate, or Sustainability) is strongly preferred.
Skills required: Excellent project management skills with high attention to detail and a strong dedication to completing projects within assigned deadlines, ability to multi-task, coordinating multiple projects concurrently while partnering effectively with internal and external stakeholders. Demonstrable experience in regulatory modernization, strategic thinking, problem-solving, project development, resource management, as well as using project planning and presentation tools (MS Project, PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI .. etc). Project management certifications (such as PMP/PMI-Agile/SCRUM) preferred.
Communication and Stakeholder Engagement: Strong communication skills are required to effectively manage high-level stakeholder relationships in public and private sectors and engage multidisciplinary teams. Ability to clearly articulate project updates to Sandbox and DFF leadership as well as external stakeholders, identify challenges, and mobilize cross-team responses quickly.
Languages: Fluent in reading, writing & presenting in both Arabic & English.
Mindset: Agile, proactive, structured, self-driven, and ready to work independently or as part of a collaborative team, and ability to drive cross-functional collaboration, manage multiple projects, and meet tight deadlines.
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DUBAI FUTURE FOUNDATION
Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) aims to realize the wise vision of Dubai s leadership to institutionalize the envisioned future and forward-thinking methodologies, while positioning Dubai as the leading city of the future. In partnership with its local and global partners from governments, companies, startups, and entrepreneurs, DFF drives joint efforts to collectively imagine, design, and execute the best possible future for humanity.