Authorities Coordinator

Job description / Role

Overview

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration through conceptualization to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 60 years, we've led with vision, contributing to many of the world's most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is recognized by ENR as one of the Top 225 International Design Firms and one of the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms. We are also ranked by World Architecture as the 51st largest global architecture firm and the #1 firm in the Middle East Region in their 2024 WA100 Survey.

We invite you to join us. Why?

When you join KEO, you'll discover more than just a job - you'll find a supportive environment that fosters your professional development through internal global mobility and career development. This is done within a culture that supports company-wide health and well-being through on-demand counseling services and regular workplace clinics. You will be invited to celebrate community events such as sports days, fun-runs, in-house sports teams and beach clean-ups. In addition to your competitive package and benefits, you will have access to a suite of policies that include hybrid working arrangements, individual athletic sponsorship, study assistance sponsorship, and employee referral rewards.

Responsibilities

Our newest opportunity is for a talented Authorities Coordinator to join our team based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. This position is responsible for obtaining approvals and no objection certificates (NOCs) from concerned regulatory authorities and stakeholders of the project.

We envisage success in this role to include:

• Developing a statutory authority and approvals strategy whilst ensuring authority approval requirements are included in the Master Schedule.
• Executing monitoring and updating the authority approvals/permits register and working with regulatory authorities to ensure that the required approvals are in place in a timely manner.
• Developing relationships with key stakeholders to ensure all necessary permits are in place as required.
• Maintaining systems to ensure that permits in use are current and valid for the relevant activity.
• Coordinating permit processes and related issues between planning, engineering & building divisions.
• Tracking the status of approvals and ensuring government compliance.
• Supporting the project managers, design consultants and contractors in resolving authority approval and permit interface issues as necessary. Together with the wider project team, develop systems to ensure that permits are current and valid for the activity being undertaken.
• Advising and informing appropriate staff and departments of document and plan submittal requirements for new projects.

Qualifications

To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envision that your career journey to date will include a minimum of 5 years work experience partnered with a Bachelor of Architecture.

Bilingual communication skills in both English and Arabic are desirable.

KEO's performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety and our people. We embrace diversity and recognize its contribution to client success wherever we work.

We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award-winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.

About the Company

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 57 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is ranked by ENR in the Top 225 International Design Firms; in the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms; and by World Architecture as 50th largest global architecture firm and #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2021 WAS 100 Survey.

We invite you to join us.