Programme Manager — Deployable Communications Capability for NATO with security clearance
Key Skills
Job Description
Relocation to the United States — Norfolk, Virginia. We provide the NATO-5 visa.
A multinational defence organisation develops the communications and information systems that deploy with its forces. This is the programme management seat: keeping issues, risks and quality under control across a portfolio of interdependent projects.
What you would be doing
- Handling issues and changes through the established processes and giving clear situational awareness on every one of them.
- Capturing and logging every programme issue affecting the capability.
- Sequencing activities and milestones, and keeping the plan honest.
- Reviewing staff reports, management products and project specifications for clarity and content.
- Running programme and project quality reviews and audits, using both qualitative and quantitative techniques.
- Capturing operational lessons from exercises and live operations, and turning them into identified capability gaps.
- Owning the programme risk log: identifying, estimating, evaluating and preparing responses.
- Reconciling the reporting databases so project expenditure is represented accurately to the stakeholder group.
- Communicating timely, analysed and well-presented information to the people it affects.
What you would bring
- A university degree in project or programme management, engineering, computer science, telecommunications or a closely related field.
- At least five years in project management of communications or information systems, using a recognised method such as MSP, PRINCE2 or PMI.
- At least three years managing risks and issues in a complex, interdependent programme.
- At least three years applying change management in a capability programme.
- At least three years running programme and project quality reviews and audits.
- At least three years in deployable communications or signals as a subject matter expert.
- At least three years in an alliance or multinational military environment.
- Fluent professional English.
This is a long engagement that renews year on year, not a short project.
Core Responsibilities
The Programme Manager will oversee the portfolio of interdependent projects by managing risks, issues, and quality standards. They are responsible for sequencing milestones, reconciling project expenditure, and providing clear situational awareness to stakeholders.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a university degree in a relevant field and possess at least five years of project management experience in communications or information systems. Proficiency in recognized methodologies like MSP, PRINCE2, or PMI and experience in a multinational military environment are required.
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