NATO
Job title:
Senior Project Manager – Multiple Roles
Company:
NATO
Job description
Who we are:
For more than 70 years, NATO’s mission has been to preserve peace and security in the Alliance for nearly one billion citizens. The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) and its predecessors have worked tirelessly in providing the means that enable the connectedness and togetherness that keep our Alliance strong. We are the NCI Agency, a team of 3000 civilian and military staff in 29 locations throughout Europe, North America and Asia.
Our technology and cyber experts allow NATO to conduct critical operations, protect NATO’s airspace, make data-driven decisions, defend against cyber-attacks, secure NATO networks and maintain superiority in space. This is all possible because of our greatest force, our people. In order to keep this edge we aim to hire, train and retain the very best staff.
Our staff members represent both the diversity and unity of our Alliance. When you join the NCI Agency, you will be part of an organization where you can contribute authentically to the mission and purpose of NATO and help us keep our technological edge.
About the job:
Based in Braine l’Alleud, Belgium you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our IT services to support NATO’s Digital Endeavour.
The Senior Project Manager leads all activities linked to one or more projects of medium size and complexity, to deliver Products to the Customer (either External or Internal) with direct business impact and firm deadlines.
We are looking for driven and enthusiastic Senior Project Managers who will take on the following roles and responsibilities:
- Project Management: takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of medium-scale projects (typically with direct business impact and firm deadlines);
- Requirements definition and management: contributes to selection of the requirements approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches;
- User experience evaluation: manages user experience evaluation of systems, products or services, to assure that the usability and accessibility requirements have been met, required practice has been followed, and systems in use continue to meet organisational and user needs;
- Contract management: oversees and measures the fulfilment of contractual obligations;
- Business risk management: investigates and reports on hazards and potential risk events within a specific function or business area.
For a full list of duties, please review the on the NCI Agency career site.
About you:
The valuable knowledge and experience that you bring to this role are:
- Bachelor’s degree, at a nationally recognized /certified University, preferably in an information systems, physics or electronics related scientific or engineering discipline, or other relevant scientific discipline and 3 years post-related experience. Or exceptionally, the lack of a degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate’s particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCI Agency, that is at least 10 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function of the post;
- A formal project management qualification such as PRINCE 2 or PMI PMP;
- Recent experience (at least 3 years) in Project management of C4ISR acquisition and/ or development projects for a large organization;
- Experience in planning, design, system engineering and implementation of military or other C4ISR systems;
- Experience in Project Management tools, managing cost and labour;
- Recent experience (at least three years) and knowledge in the successful project management of ICT projects for a large, preferably international, organization;
- Experience and certification in Management of Risk (MoR) is desirable;
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
What we offer:
- Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history;
- 3 year contract with competitive tax-free salary and household and children’s allowances;
- Privileges for expatriate staff including expatriation and education allowances (where appropriate) and additional home leave;
- Excellent private health insurance scheme;
- Generous annual leave of 30 days plus official holidays;
- NATO Pension Scheme;
- Development programs such as professional training, wellbeing, and more.
To learn more about NCI Agency and our work, please visit our .
The NCI Agency prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment of mutual respect and value uniqueness and differences in gender, gender identity, race, ethnic or cultural origin, age, religion, sexual orientation and physical or neurocognitive ability.
via the NCI Agency career site.
Expected salary
Location
Braine-l’Alleud, Brabant Wallon
Job date
Wed, 06 Mar 2024 04:07:32 GMT
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