GRC Executive Director-Capital Project

The GRC Executive Director is responsible for leading the development, execution, and continuous enhancement of governance, risk, and compliance frameworks across the organization. The role ensures regulatory adherence, ethical integrity, and robust cybersecurity protection while embedding GRC practices into strategic and operational processes. The Executive Director will oversee enterprise-wide GRC activities, ensuring alignment with corporate goals and driving a culture of accountability, transparency, and proactive risk management.

• Align GRC division goals, processes, and resources with the organization's strategic direction while maintaining commercial and operational awareness.
• Ensure the achievement of departmental objectives through effective workforce planning, performance tracking, and team development.
• Establish GRC objectives; identify and analyze trends, evaluate strategic options, and select optimal courses of action.
• Develop and manage the GRC annual budget, including forecasting requirements, monitoring expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective measures.
• Uphold high service quality by enforcing standards, resolving issues, and championing continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support enterprise-wide strategic decision-making and problem resolution, offering expert input and guidance.

• Supervise day-to-day activities of the GRC team, ensuring timely and accurate completion of tasks.
• Provide leadership and direction through effective delegation, oversight of operations, and clear communication of priorities.
• Set the vision for the GRC division and inspire the team to achieve organizational objectives.
• Monitor, track, and report key performance indicators and operational outcomes.
• Escalate business-critical issues to senior management and drive alignment on resolutions.
• Manage team performance through regular feedback, goal-setting, coaching, and performance appraisals.

• Develop and maintain corporate governance frameworks, charters, policies, and decision-making protocols to ensure accountability, transparency, and ethical leadership.
• Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework, enabling proactive identification, assessment, and mitigation of strategic and operational risks.
• Oversee organization-wide compliance initiatives to ensure alignment with legal, regulatory, and internal control requirements across all functions.
• Build cross-functional partnerships to ensure cohesive GRC practices and drive organization-wide awareness and adherence.
• Provide expert oversight on cybersecurity governance, ensuring protection of digital assets and alignment with international best practices.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Law, Information Security, or a related field.

• Minimum 13+ years of experience in governance, risk management, or compliance roles.
• Strong background in real estate or construction-related environments, ideally within large-scale or complex projects.
• Proven experience working with FIDIC contractseither in-house within major real estate or development organizations, or in private practice supporting real estate/construction clients.
• Demonstrated leadership experience managing integrated GRC functions across large organizations.

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Risk Management, Public Administration, or a related field.