PwC Academy (UAE Nationals) - Project Management Senior Associate - Dubai / Abu Dhabi

With offices in 152 countries and almost 328,000 people, we are among the leading professional services networks in the world. We help organizations and individuals create the value they are looking for, by delivering quality in Assurance, Tax and Advisory services.

PwC Middle East Overview

Established in the region for 40 years, PwC has around 10,000 people in 12 countries across the region: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, the Palestinian territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Our regional team with its tailored solutions brings international experience, helping our clients meet the challenges and opportunities of doing business in the Middle East market, and beyond.

Line of Service Overview

Our Middle East Assurance practice includes over 2,300 people based in 12 countries across the region and is part of PwC’s global network that is operating worldwide. PwC Middle East’s Assurance practice combines the right mix of human-led and tech-powered solutions to provide our clients with quality audits and other risk services that create confidence and impact in our region and across society.

As a member of the Assurance Academy team, you’ll help organise, plan, and administer a unique PwC programme offering assurance professionals the opportunity to broaden their skills and develop real business experiences applicable to all major business and industry groups.

Watani Programme

Watani, our award-winning Emiratisation programme, aims to empower Emirati job seekers to become the next generation of business leaders, by providing exciting growth opportunities and enabling them to transform their future. It is steadfast in its objective to accelerate a sustainable national workforce in the professional services sector. This homegrown programme is focused on identifying and retaining top talent from the UAE. UAE Nationals who join PwC are matched with the right opportunities and offered the necessary development tools to grow.

What is expected from you?

PwC’s Academy is looking for a candidate for the role of Senior Project Management Associate for the Riyadh office.

The Senior Associate Project Management will be the primary point of all course administration and operational activities including post-enrolment queries from existing delegates and will also serve as the operational contact for Course Managers and Programme Advisors. This person will work closely with the Course Managers and perform a wide variety of operational activities for Professional Qualifications (PQs) and Professional Development courses (PDs) for PwC’s Academy in KSA (Riyadh), including execution of budgeted programmes, scheduling and updating Administrate.

PwC’s Assurance Academy is an innovative development programme that provides training and real-time business opportunities to assurance professionals looking to broaden their skill set. It provides experience across a broad range of topics and creates a real community atmosphere that fosters support and learning among all its graduates.

Your job duties will include but will not be limited to:

• Handle post-enrolment delegate queries relating to administrative matters, scheduling, materials, attendance and progress reporting of all KSA courses.
• Work with the Course Managers on scheduling and timetabling, and liaising with Operations on resourcing requests including room bookings. Ensuring schedules and course updates are communicated to Programme Advisors.
• Materials inventory management, distribution of materials to lecturers and delegates.
• Create, add and edit courses, update prices, schedule and manage events, assign instructors, update attendance, progress and communicate events on Administrate. Updating and maintaining Administrate to ensure validity.
• Communicating effectively with clients/customers (internal and external), ensuring minimum response times.
• Conduct feedbacks for all UAE courses, create feedback summaries and communicate summaries to Course Managers and Customer Services team for action plan.
• Maintain delegate progress reports and communicate this to Course Managers.
• Provide back-end support to Course Managers and Programme Advisors for material branding (formatting, adjusting, branding, and printing) as per PwC’s brand guidelines.

What will you bring?

You are ambitious and make use of opportunities to grow and develop. In addition, you recognise yourself in the following characteristics:

• A UAE national with a family book.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills that allow you to thrive in a team environment.
• Bilingual proficiency in Arabic and English (oral and written) is a plus.
• A business graduate with at least 2 years of Project Management experience in the professional training services preferred OR learning and development background.
• Business development and client relationship building skills.
• Willingness to challenge the ‘norms’ and to create a cohesive and effective working team.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Knowledge in using technologies, and experience using Data Analytics tools is a plus.
• Commitment to valuing differences and working alongside diverse people and perspectives.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviors that help us deliver our business strategy.

The PwC Professional framework plays a significant role in outlining the capabilities needed by our people to flourish, learn and develop together as leaders at every level. The framework exists to support the development and career progression of our people, helping them to meet the expectations of our clients, colleagues and communities in today’s changing global marketplace.

Why you’ll love working for PwC

We’re a business that leads with the heart and we prioritize our people. Led by our value of care, we find ways to help our people, our clients and one another. With PwC, you will ignite a meaningful career and will be provided with a range of financial and non-financial rewards and benefits designed to encourage your growth, like:

• A competitive remuneration plan in which you will be rewarded for your success and acknowledged for the value you provide to our company.
• We encourage an inclusive and diverse culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be.
• A flexible work frame to encourage work-life balance.
• We care about our employees' mental health and well-being by providing specialists to offer advice, as well as meditation, yoga, and other relaxation online sessions.
• Limitless opportunities for continuous learning and digital upskilling.
• A friendly atmosphere that encourages innovative mindsets, relationship development, and assisting others in growing and working in ways that bring out their best.
• A competitive schooling allowance and insurance packages (As per PwC policy).

If you’re looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you’re a future PwCer.

Education

Degrees / Field of Study required: Degrees / Field of Study preferred: