About Project Management Office:

The office was established based on the decision of His Excellency, the President of the University No. 420000918 dated 06/24/1441 AH, to form the University’s Project Management Office. The Project Management Office (PMO) is directly linked to the President of the University.​

Tasks:

• Manage and follow up on the university’s programs and projects to achieve the vision, mission, and goals of the university’s Strategic Plan and quality assurance. 
• Lay the methodology for working between the Project Management Office and different university entities.
• List needs and requirements necessary for the university’s entities and provide them successively in coordination with competent authorities, to ensure exemplary implementation, follow-up, and management of the programs and projects entrusted to them. 
• Provide Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) in coordination with competent authorities. 
• Create a unified database for initiatives for the Strategic Plan. 
• Develop regulations, work mechanisms, and models for project management at the university. 
• Create committees, units, and teams for project management (implementation, follow-up, evaluation) in the university’s entities, coordinating their work and connecting them with the Project Management Office. 
• Raise the human resources’ capabilities (alumni, faculty, and staff) and all university parties connected to project management (project managers, project officials, project team members) with professional project management training courses and workshops. 
• Develop and apply the university’s professional project management methodology by transferring techniques and expertise through direct communication with local and international universities, giving field visits, and inviting experts to hold seminars and hosting workshops at the university. 
• Follow-up on the progress of programs and projects at the university through periodic reports from implementing entities. Try to overcome obstacles and difficulties that prevent or delay the implementation of projects. 
• Provide a real-time control panel on the projects’ progress status, showing the current situation, objectives achieved, completion percentage, and current risks and issues. 
• ​Provide High management with periodic reports on the follow-up, evaluation, project implementation status, readings, and analysis of performance indicators for projects at the university. 

Organizational Structure

Members

Achievements

Current projects: 

• Lay the methodology for working between the Project Management Office and different university entities to manage projects/initiatives of the Strategic Plan 2020-2025. 
• List needs and requirements necessary for the university’s entities to ensure exemplary implementation, follow-up, and management of the programs and projects entrusted to them and provide them successively in coordination with competent authorities. 
• Provide Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) in coordination with competent authorities. 
• Create a unified database containing the data of initiatives for the Strategic Plan. 
• Develop work mechanisms and forms to be followed to manage initiatives for the Strategic Plan. 
• Develop and apply the university’s professional project management methodology by transferring techniques and expertise through direct communication with local and international universities, to give field visits, and inviting experts to hold seminars and hosting workshops at the university. 
• Follow-up on the progress of programs and projects at the university through periodic reports from implementing entities, overcoming obstacles and difficulties that prevent or delay the implementation of projects. 
• Provide a real-time control panel on the projects’ progress status, showing the current situation, objectives achieved, completion percentage, and current risks and issues. 
• ​Provide High management with periodic reports on the follow-up, evaluation, project implementation status, reading and analyzing performance indicators for projects at the university. 
• Manage key performance indicators (measurement and analysis).