Director - Parks and Green Spaces

Qiddiya
Riyadh
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Executive & General ManagementExperience: 12-15 yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Strategic leadership","Governance","Contractor management","Evidence-based decision making","Team leadership"]

Lead strategic governance and portfolio oversight for all green spaces across Qiddiya City, including parks, horticulture, irrigation, green corridors, streetscapes, and public realm softscape assets. Establish operating models, standards, inspection routines, KPIs, and escalation governance. Ensure landscaped environments are safe, sustainable, resilient, and guest-ready year-round, while serving as senior technical authority for maintainable and climate-appropriate design and operations. Oversee assets, budgets, contractor performance, and a dedicated team.

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Director - Parks and Green Spaces

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Job Summary

Lead strategic governance and portfolio oversight for all green spaces across Qiddiya City, including parks, horticulture, irrigation, green corridors, streetscapes, and public realm softscape assets. Establish operating models, standards, inspection routines, KPIs, and escalation governance. Ensure landscaped environments are safe, sustainable, resilient, and guest-ready year-round, while serving as senior technical authority for maintainable and climate-appropriate design and operations. Oversee assets, budgets, contractor performance, and a dedicated team.
Location: Riyadh
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Provide strategic leadership and governance for green spaces, landscaping, horticulture, irrigation, parks, green corridors, streetscapes, and public realm softscape assets across Qiddiya City.
  • •Establish and maintain the green spaces operating model, including standards, policies, inspection routines, maintenance strategies, service levels, KPIs, reporting, and escalation governance.
  • •Lead operation and maintenance of parks, gardens, medians, boulevards, public realm landscapes, recreational landscapes, and associated irrigation infrastructure to keep environments safe and guest-ready.
  • •Act as senior technical authority for landscaping, horticulture, irrigation, and public realm softscape operations, ensuring maintainable, sustainable, and locally aligned designs and handovers.
  • •Direct contractor and service provider performance via scopes of work, technical standards, audits, SLA/KPI management, corrective action planning, and governance reviews.

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Landscape Architecture, Horticulture, Agriculture, Irrigation Engineering, Environmental Science, Civil Engineering, Facilities Management, or a related discipline.
  • •Relevant professional/technical qualification in horticulture, irrigation management, arboriculture, landscape operations, asset management, project management, sustainability, or health and safety is desirable.
  • •Typically 12–15+ years’ experience across landscaping, horticulture, irrigation, parks, public realm, environmental operations, facilities management, or city-scale O&M, including senior leadership experience.
  • •Demonstrated experience leading large-scale landscape operations, public realm maintenance, irrigation networks, contractor governance, operational readiness, asset handover, and lifecycle planning.
  • •Strong experience with local horticultural practices, climate-appropriate planting, water-efficient landscape management, and native plant species in the Arabian Peninsula.
Experience:12-15 yearsParksPublic realmLandscapingIrrigationAsset management
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Strategic leadershipGovernanceContractor managementEvidence-based decision makingTeam leadership

Company Brief

Qiddiya
Developing Qiddiya City, a PIF-backed giga-project near Riyadh delivering theme parks, sports venues, cultural attractions, hospitality, and entertainment ecosystems to drive tourism, jobs, and economic diversification under Saudi Vision 2030.
Industry: Real Estate Development
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Government & Public Sector
Funding: Government Funded
Headquarters: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Founded: 2018
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