Job Description

At CSM we are driven by a clear purpose; to Pursue Extraordinary. We exist to create a positive impact on our partners, their audiences, our industry and our people, and to look for opportunities that can inspire a better world in everything we do.
Our diversity of experience, expertise and opinions is our greatest asset, which is why we celebrate our differences. We are looking for individuals who want to put their hand up and challenge convention to create something exciting, bigger and better each and every time.
CSM is proud to share fresh perspectives and new ideas to produce work that others don't and won't. What we do is fast-paced, exciting and rewarding which is why we love it and why you'll love life at CSM.
CSM exists to Pursue Extraordinary. We do that through challenging convention, to produce work for our clients that is more
meaningful, memorable and measurable.
Our diversity of experience, expertise and opinions is our greatest asset, which is why we celebrate our differences. We arelooking for individuals who want to put their hand up and challenge convention to create something exciting, bigger and better each and every time.
CSM is proud to share fresh perspectives and new ideas to produce work that others don't and won't. What we do is fastpaced, exciting and rewarding which is why we love it and why you'll love life at CSM.
What You Will be Doing
As Project Lead you will be part of one of CSM Middle East's most prestigious projects - working with Abu Dhabi Sports
Council and other key Abu Dhabi stakeholders to create and deliver long term behaviour change program to get the population
of the emirate active and to lead a more holistic healthy and active lifestyle. In the words of the Abu Dhabi Sports Council
General Secretary this is "the most important project for his organisation for the next 3-5 years".
Responsibilities include input into the strategic planning phase, lead management of implementation planning phase
and lead management of the implementation phase;

• Overseeing financial management and reporting
• Overseeing team member management and managing direct reports
• Overseeing internal stakeholder management
• External stakeholder management - leading partnerships and relationships with client and other key program stakeholders
• Overseeing internal planning processes working with subject matter experts
• Ensuring plans and implementation are of world class standard and aligned with overall strategy.
• Overseeing the development of project timelines, monthly budgets, personnel and client reporting
• Overseeing the management of KPI setting and evaluation with the client
• Overseeing regular project and status updates with key client contact
• Partner agency management
• Ensuring that there is a constantly evolving stakeholder engagement strategy to ensure the delivery of AD360 through the

channels of partners and stakeholders
Program Management

• Overseeing program planning, execution and task management
• Overseeing the day to day project plan management including the supply of regular progress updates for the Project Lead
• Identifying project blockages, scope and budget creep and flagging these at the earliest occasion
• Managing multiple workstreams in delivering the implementation plan developed
• Hold update meetings with the workstream leads as a group and separately with the workstream teams

Program Management (cont)

• Overseeing the delivery of workstream implementation plans
• Overseeing the development of program proposals and program design
• Overseeing the collating budget components from the individual workstreams and approving the spend of budget and

budget reporting

• Work cross functionally with support services to ensure compliance (Legal, Finance, Senior Management) throughout the

project implementation, taking necessary approvals where necessary

• Overseeing the management of vendor sourcing and management process
• Overseeing risk assessment and management
• Specialist skillsets welcomed to work across other areas of the project (e.g. community outreach / marketing etc.)

Evaluations, reporting and analysis

• Overseeing the impact of the project on behaviours of the target audiences by developing and implementing an effective

outcomes Monitoring and Evaluation Framework

• Strong interpersonal, organisational and analytical skills
• Ability to keep track of all deliverables and deadlines, keep track of all ongoing projects, complete status reports
• Quality control - ensuring standards of service are consistent and of an expected quality
• Strong line management to ensure clear lines of communication with other team members
• KPIs, and offer mentoring and guidance to junior members
• Assist with research, concept development and costing for new business concepts and ideas
• Active participant in broader Agency Team events and activity
• Willingness to contribute to other projects within the agency

The Skills and Experience You Need
A Strong background knowledge on behaviour change
techniques, models and evaluation practices

• Experience of delivering programmes that have successfully

delivered measurable behaviour change at regional or
national level.

• +10 years' experience in Project and Program Management

(sports and/or behaviour change programs preferable)

• Ability to develop creative approaches and the ops-mindset

to realize them - a strategic and problem-solving mindset

• Strong client management skills - ability to manage clients

and gain trust and respect of senior clients

• Presentation skills (both writing and delivery), internally and

to clients / suppliers including use of Microsoft PowerPoint

• Excellent project management, organization, communication

and writing skills
CSM is made up of 1000+ people in 25+ locations who share a purpose to pursue extraordinary. It is the reason we come into work each morning, the mindset we all share, the thread through every piece of work we deliver and the story we tell when someone wonders why we do, what we do.
Each of our people are extraordinary in their own right, bringing diversity to our thinking, experience and expertise to help us produce work that our competitors don't and wont. What we do is fast-paced, exciting and rewarding which is why we love it and why you'll love life at CSM.
If you are someone who sees the extraordinary in the ordinary, then we would love to hear from you.