[5913] Senior Project Manager

Start date: Flexible
Location: Braine L'Alleud, Belgium
Clearance: NATO secret


Skills:

• Recent experience (at least 3 years) in Project management of acquisition and / or development projects for a large organization
• Strong experience in Project Management tools, managing cost and labour
• Relevant experience in leading a cross functional team, preferably in international environment
• Relevant experience in project administration (resource management, project financing and budgeting) Training/Certifications: A recognised formal Project Management qualification, such as PRINCE2 or PMP
• Proven success as a project team manager/leader in Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) acquisition projects
• Project Management automation (ServiceNow (SNOW)) and work collaboration tools experience
• Knowledge of NATO or national governmental acquisition policy and procurement procedures
• Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements
• Knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organization, including ACO and ACT

Activities:

• Duties and Responsibilities: Project management
• Takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of medium-scale projects
• Provides effective leadership to the project team
• Adopts appropriate project management methods and tools
• Manages the change control process and assesses and manages risks
• Ensures that realistic project plans are maintained and delivers regular and accurate communication to stakeholders
• Ensures project and product quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure
• Ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are formally accepted, by appropriate stakeholders
• Monitors costs, times, quality and resources used and takes action where performance deviates from agreed tolerances. Stakeholder relationship management
• Identifies the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups
• Translates communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables
• Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders
• Acts as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans
• Provides informed feedback to assess and promote understanding
• Facilitates business decision-making processes
• Captures and disseminates technical and business information. Additional duties for this post: Project Management
• Contribute to other project activities in support of higher roles Project Managers (from project initiation to project closure)
• Provide regular accurate Project status reports Change Management
• Investigates, manages, and applies authorised requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy
• Identifies where changes are required, evaluates the impact, and advises stakeholders about the implications and consequences Contract Management
• Oversees and measures the fulfilment of contractual obligations in coordination with assigned contract officer
• Uses key performance indicators to monitor and challenge performance and identify opportunities for continual improvement
• Selects appropriately from, and assesses the impact of change to applicable standards, methods, tools, applications and processes relevant to own specialism
• Maximises the capabilities of applications for their role and evaluates and supports the use of new technologies and digital tools
• Contributes specialist expertise to requirements definition in support of proposals
• Shares knowledge and experience in own specialism to help others
• Maintains an awareness of developing practices and their application and takes responsibility for driving own development
• Takes the initiative in identifying and negotiating their own and supporting team members' appropriate development opportunities and contributes to the development of others
• Applies Security, privacy and ethics principles to own work and to the operation of the organisation. Engages or works with specialists as necessary