Consulting and Professional Services Sector

Overview of the Sector

The professional and consulting services sector encompasses specialized professional, scientific, and technical activities that typically require a high level of training to ensure that beneficiaries have access to specialized knowledge and skills.

Mr. Abdullah Al-Zahrani

Founder and CEO of Tharwa Consulting
Today, the professional and consulting services sector is undergoing fundamental transformations that affect its professional structure, business models, and competency requirements. This sector is a cornerstone for enhancing the efficiency and competitiveness of the national economy. It is a cross-sectoral sector, and the quality of its outputs influences the quality of institutional decision-making, the effectiveness of governance, and productivity levels across various economic activities.
We emphasize that the Council is not an additional regulatory body, but rather a strategic coordination platform that brings together stakeholders from the public and private sectors, works to unify efforts, maximize impact, and direct investment in human capital.

Members

Mr. Muhammad Al-Melhem
Assistant Undersecretary for Localization
Dr. Musab Al-Jaid
Chief Executive Officer of Membership and Professional Development
Dr. Khalid Al-Yahya
Professional and Consulting Services Sector Expert
Mr. Abdulaziz Al-Habas
Executive Vice President
Mr. Adel Baabdullah
Head of the Local Human Resources Department
Mr. Saud Al-Mubarak
Director of Human Capital
Mr. Ghassan Kasbaji
Chief Executive Officer of Development and Advancement
Mr. Khalid Al-Ajlan
Executive Director of Human Resources
Mr. Khalid Al-Shneiber
Representative of the Council of Saudi Chambers
Mr. Khalid Al-Dosari
Representative of the National Committee of Workers' Committees in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
A. Ammar Madani
Chief Human Resources Officer
Mr. Abdullah Al-Zahrani
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Omar Al-Sharif
Co-founder
Dr. Ahmed Abdulaziz Saqr
Vice President of the Gulf Research Center
A. Turki Al-Jadaan
Partner
Mr. Khalid Al-Khudairi
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Nader Shinawi
Head of the Support Program for
A. Rashid al-Rashid
Representative of the Public Investment Fund
A. Eid Al-Anzi
Representative of the General Organization for Technical and Vocational Training

Sectoral Skills Framework

 A sectoral skills framework serves as a comprehensive tool for identifying the skills needed in a sector; it specifies the skills required for each job family within the sector’s value chains. The sectoral skills framework follows a systematic approach to identifying the skills needed in the sector: first, job groups were identified within the subsectors, followed by the identification of key job roles, career paths, and priority skills. 
Groups and Career Paths
Develop an overview of the sector and its subsectors, the major trends in the sector, and the skills required in line with those trends, in addition to identifying job categories and career paths in the consulting and professional services sector.
Skills Dictionary
Provide details on the technical and soft skills associated with the main job categories in the consulting and professional services sector in the Kingdom.
Skills Database
The Excel tool serves as a supplement to the report on the Skills Dictionary for the Consulting and Professional Services Sector and as an introduction to the Skills Framework for the Consulting and Professional Services Sector. The tool focuses on two main types of skills: general skills and technical skills.

Professional Standards Framework

National documents outlining standards for the description of occupations and their associated jobs, including the knowledge, skills, requirements, and competencies necessary to perform job roles and tasks. This includes the application and use of these standards in various contexts depending on the users, such as human resources professionals, training centers, and others interested in human capacity building.

Partnerships

Strategic partnerships for sectoral skills councils are a fundamental pillar for helping to meet the evolving needs of the labor market, Integration between the public and private sectors and training and educational institutions is one of the cornerstones of the sectoral skills councils’ work; it helps bridge the skills gap between supply and demand, improves the quality of educational and training outcomes, and enhances the efficiency of human capital as the primary driver of national development.

Training Programs

Programs that have been aligned with the skills framework to ensure that learning and training outcomes are consistent with the technical and general skills identified by the sectoral skills councils and included in the sectoral skills frameworks.