DFF - Associate Strategy and Performance Manager

Organization: Dubai GovernmentEducational-level Beginning of the main content section.Return to the home pagePrintable Format Job Description - DFF - Associate Strategy and Performance Manager (26003137)Job Description DFF - Associate Strategy and Performance Manager - (26003137) About Dubai Future Foundation:Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) was established in 2016 to institutionalize future-shaping for Dubai and strengthen the city’s position as a leading global city of the future. The Foundation works in partnership with government and private-sector entities to imagine, design and accelerate Dubai’s future. Its work spans five strategic areas: future foresight, knowledge dissemination, capacity building, future design and future acceleration. At the heart of DFF’s mandate is turning future-focused ideas and opportunities into tangible outcomes. The Foundation embraces risk-taking, agility and foresight as key attributes in navigating emerging opportunities and challenges. DFF is guided by a core belief that leading in the present is not enough; the future must be actively imagined, designed and executed.Job Description LIFE AT DUBAI FUTURE FOUNDATIONDubai Future Foundation (DFF) aims to realize the wise vision of Dubai’s leadership to keep Dubai 10 years ahead, institutionalizing future-oriented thinking and forward-looking methodologies that position Dubai as the leading city of the future.In collaboration with government entities, global institutions, startups, and innovators, DFF drives collective efforts to imagine, design, and execute the best possible future for humanity.Under the supervision of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Chairman of the Executive Council of Dubai, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of DFF, the Foundation oversees a portfolio of initiatives that include the Museum of the Future, Area 2071, Dubai Future Accelerators, Dubai Future Labs, Dubai Future Academy, Dubai Future Forum, Dubai Centre for AI, and the Dubai RDI Program.Through these platforms, DFF institutionalizes foresight, enables innovation, builds talent, and designs the systems and industries that will keep Dubai 10 years ahead in every dimension of its future.For more information on the initiatives, projects, and programs of Dubai Future Foundation, please visit: www.dubaifuture.aeWHERE DOES THIS ROLE FIT INTO THE BIGGER PICTURE?The Associate Strategy and Performance Manager reports directly to the Senior Strategy Manager, Strategy and Performance, within the Strategy and Strategic Capital Department at DFF.This vertical focuses on delivering with intention — owning strategic planning-cycle management, portfolio governance, the institutional PMO, capital allocation, operating-model and process design, enterprise digital transformation, and the performance frameworks that keep DFF’s initiatives aligned, funded, resourced, and on track.WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANTThis role is the bridge between DFF’s strategy and its delivery. By translating moonshots into mandates, holding the portfolio accountable against measurable goals, keeping a disciplined eye on capital and human-capital alignment, and modernising how DFF operates, you ensure leadership can steer every initiative toward measurable, well-funded, well-resourced impact — and that the organisation itself stays fit to keep Dubai 10 years ahead.ABOUT THE ROLEAs the Associate Strategy and Performance Manager, you will act as the connective tissue between leadership intent and execution — translating DFF’s vision, moonshots, and annual priorities into clear mandates, and surfacing project realities, risks, and trade-offs back to leadership in decision-ready form.Your remit runs beyond individual projects: you will help shape DFF’s operating model, support its digital transformation and adoption of new tools, and partner with Finance and HR to keep capital and human-capital growth aligned to budget.The role demands a rare dual capability — the strategic mindset to connect every initiative to DFF’s moonshots, and the delivery and financial discipline to make sure it actually ships, on budget and on impact.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES1. Strategic Needs Translation (Corporate ↔ Project)• Build a deep, current understanding of DFF’s needs at both the corporate level (vision, moonshots, annual priorities) and the project level (objectives, constraints, dependencies, delivery status).• Engage continuously with project teams to understand their needs first-hand and anticipate problems before they escalate.• Translate high-level strategic direction into clear, actionable mandates for project teams, and surface project-level realities, risks, and trade-offs back to leadership in a structured, decision-ready form.• Maintain a living, enterprise-wide view of the portfolio so leadership always has an accurate picture of what is in flight, what it is delivering, and where it stands against strategy.2. Portfolio Alignment, Orchestration &

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Strategic Needs Translation (Corporate ↔ Project)• Build a deep, current understanding of DFF’s needs at both the corporate level (vision, moonshots, annual priorities) and the project level (objectives, constraints, dependencies, delivery status).• Engage continuously with project teams to understand their needs first-hand and anticipate problems before they escalate.• Translate high-level strategic direction into clear, actionable mandates for project teams, and surface project-level realities, risks, and trade-offs back to leadership in a structured, decision-ready form.• Maintain a living, enterprise-wide view of the portfolio so leadership always has an accurate picture of what is in flight, what it is delivering, and where it stands against strategy.2. Portfolio Alignment, Orchestration &