[5934] Senior Project Manager

Start date: May 2026
Clearance: NATO Secret or equivalent
Location: Braine L'Alleud, Belgium


Skills
- Education, Experience and Training (essential): Education: A minimum requirement of a Bachelor's degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 3 years post-related experience
- Or exceptionally, the lack of a university 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
- 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
- Deputise for higher grade staff, if required Perform other duties as may be required