Stakeholder Manager - Design Coordinator

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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Stakeholder Manager-Design Coordinator to join our team!

The Stakeholder Manager / Design Coordinator will play a critical role in coordinating between the client, design teams, and a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of the project. This role combines stakeholder relationship management with design coordination to ensure that project designs are aligned with stakeholder expectations, regulatory requirements, and the strategic goals of the client.

Key Responsibilities:

Stakeholder Engagement and Relationship Management

• Build and maintain strong relationships with all project stakeholders, including government agencies, local authorities, consultants, contractors, and community representatives.
• Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders on design-related matters, ensuring that their concerns, requirements, and expectations are accurately captured and addressed.
• Organize and facilitate regular stakeholder meetings, workshops, and design review sessions to ensure alignment on project objectives, design intent, and progress.
• Manage stakeholder expectations by clearly communicating project constraints, timelines, and design implications.

Design Coordination

• Coordinate between the client, design consultants, and internal technical teams to ensure design requirements reflect stakeholder needs and project objectives.
• Review design submissions to check alignment with stakeholder requirements, project scope, and applicable codes and standards.
• Track and manage design comments, ensuring timely responses and incorporation into updated design packages.
• Facilitate interdisciplinary coordination (architectural, structural, MEP, infrastructure, and specialist disciplines) to resolve design clashes and interface issues.
• Support value engineering exercises to balance stakeholder expectations, cost efficiency, constructability, and design quality.

Regulatory and Technical Compliance

• Liaise with government entities and regulatory authorities to ensure that all designs comply with local codes, regulations, and planning requirements.
• Coordinate the preparation and submission of design documents required for permits, approvals, and licenses, ensuring timely responses to regulatory comments.
• Ensure that design outputs adhere to relevant standards, particularly those related to construction, infrastructure, urban development, and local planning guidelines.

Communication, Documentation, and Reporting

• Develop and implement a structured communication plan for design and stakeholder coordination to ensure consistent and transparent information flow.
• Prepare and deliver regular reports, presentations, and dashboards for the client and key stakeholders, highlighting design progress, key decisions, risks, and issues.
• Maintain clear records of stakeholder requirements, meeting minutes, decisions, approvals, and design changes.
• Escalate critical design and stakeholder issues to senior management with recommended options and resolutions.

Collaboration and Interface Management

• Work closely with internal departments (design, planning, construction, procurement, and project controls) to ensure alignment between design development and project execution.
• Coordinate with external consultants, contractors, and specialist suppliers to ensure their designs and deliverables meet stakeholder expectations and project timelines.
• Support tender and procurement processes by clarifying design intent and stakeholder requirements where needed.

Risk and Issue Management

• Identify risks related to stakeholder expectations, approvals, and design coordination that may impact scope, schedule, or cost.
• Develop and implement mitigation strategies to proactively address potential conflicts or delays.
• Monitor and manage design-related changes, ensuring proper change control, impact assessment, and stakeholder communication.

What Required Skills You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning, Project Management, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in stakeholder management, design coordination, or project management on large-scale building, infrastructure, or urban development projects.
• Proven experience coordinating multidisciplinary design teams and managing complex stakeholder environments.
• Experience working with government entities and regulatory authorities in Saudi Arabia is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of the design process across project stages, from concept to detailed design and construction documentation.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage, influence, and negotiate with diverse stakeholder groups.
• Strong conflict resolution and problem-solving capabilities, particularly in balancing stakeholder interests with technical and commercial constraints.
• Proficiency in project management and collaboration tools (such as MS Project, Primavera, MS Office, and common design coordination platforms).

Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.

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