Senior Specialist Talent Programs📣 Job Ad

About Qiddiya and the Role

Qiddiya is seeking a Senior Specialist Talent Programs to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position requires 2-5 years of relevant experience and is central to supporting and enhancing talent development initiatives within the organization.

Role Purpose and Contribution

The Senior Specialist Talent Programs plays a key role in supporting the delivery, development, and continuous improvement of the PlayPath Development Program. This position coordinates essential program activities, contributes to program design and materials, and helps create a positive and engaging experience for participants. Working closely with the Program Lead, HR teams, business stakeholders, and participants, the Senior Specialist helps ensure effective program delivery, captures feedback, drives continuous improvement, and supports the development of future engineering talent.

Program Delivery and Participant Engagement

• Coordinate schedules, rotations, meetings, materials, communications, and logistics for program activities.
• Maintain accurate trackers, files, participant records, and program documents.
• Follow up with business teams and participants to keep actions, placements, and development milestones on track.
• Support participant onboarding, touchpoints, mentoring sessions, engagement activities, and day-to-day queries.
• Track participation, completion, feedback, and common issues across the participant journey.
• Share insights and improvement ideas to strengthen participant experience and program effectiveness.

Program Development, Evaluation, and Stakeholder Coordination

• Support the development of program content, templates, tools, evaluation forms, and participant materials.
• Prepare status updates, data summaries, and evaluation inputs for manager review.
• Use feedback, data, and lessons learned to recommend practical improvements to the program.
• Coordinate with HR Business Partners, Capability & Learning, Talent Management, external providers, and business contacts.
• Support agreed governance steps, approvals, criteria, documentation, and reporting requirements.
• Escalate risks, delays, gaps, and decisions needed to the program manager.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Experience supporting and delivering structured learning or talent development programs, including rotations, assessments, development plans, mentoring, and progress tracking.
• A strong working knowledge of engineering and development environments, including how technical teams operate, how capability is built, and what is required to develop early-career engineering talent, is highly regarded.

Professional Conduct and Team Contribution

• Translate priorities into clear tasks, assign work, and track progress against agreed targets.
• Contribute to team capability and engagement through effective communication, recognition, and on-the-job development support.
• Actively participate in regular check-ins, provide timely feedback and coaching, and escalate complex issues as needed.