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Project Manager (Ops CIS) (NATO-NCIA)

Mons, Belgium, Sapienza Consulting [AAS4039]

Field(s) of expertise
Project and Service Management
Job type
Contract
Education
BachelorMaster
Deadline
Closed

About this job

Sapienza Consulting is recruiting a Project Manager (Ops CIS) to join NATO – NCIA, at Mons, Belgium.

Responsibilities

  • Manage Project Plans. This task supports establishment and maintenance of up-to-date Project Schedules that are delivering capabilities for NATO or individual NATO Nations
  • Support Communications and Reporting. Regular communications and efficient and timely reporting will be vital to success of projects
  • Issue Management and Control, Risk Management and Benefits Realization. Development of procurement strategy, benefit risk analysis, business case in order to support and secure sponsor acceptance funding
  • Prepare cost estimates, price proposals, statement of work, terms and conditions for implementation projects
  • Execution of necessary Quality Assurance functions essential to successful delivery of capability and services
  • Delivery of projects within defined Time, Cost, Scope and Quality tolerances
  • Performance of Portfolio and/or Program management across portfolio of assigned work
  • Using MS-Office suite, MS-EPM, and other software packages to support project and portfolio management
  • Liaising with other Project Management Teams to ensure integrity and coherence of projects with wider NATO C3 systems and capabilities
  • lnterfacing with Agency’s sponsors to exchange and maintain full project transparency, status and knowledge information on funded and approved projects/services
  • Taking role in acquisition process (i.e. writing SoW and bidding documents, evaluation process, etc.)
  • Preparing documents, point papers, letters, presentations, reviewing documents for language, format/structure, consistency, content, and providing comments
  • Supporting development of project highlight reports, project exception reports and associated material where applicable
  • Managing project Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) sites and document Libraries
  • Provide day-to-day management and control of project finances, including rising and tracking invoices and their payment as well as monitoring overall expenditure and funds
  • Stakeholder management and communications management
  • Support project meetings, including organizing meetings, preparing meeting rooms and recording minutes and actions

Profile

  • Supplementary relevant postgraduate qualifications are desirable
  • Proven ability to communicate effectively orally, using tact and diplomacy, and in writing with also good briefing skills
  • Be able to write comprehensive reports and documents in a short time for use by responsible authorities
  • Have computer skills with experience in office support tools (MS Office package, including MS Project) and with Windows environment
  • Have ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks simultaneously under pressure
  • Sense of integrity, diplomacy and propriety in order to work harmoniously with colleagues and other staff, both civilian and military, from NATO and NATO nations, as well as with staff from private scientific/industrial organizations
  • 5+ years of project management experience working in a multinational environment acquiring complex C4ISR projects
  • Recent experience of (at least 3 of areas identified) Application migration in virtualized Data Center environments; leadership of formal acceptance testing for CIS capabilities; military Command and Control systems; Management information systems; deployed military CIS operations;
  • Technical background based on prior experience to understand all aspects of CIS Architecture
  • Experience with common-funded acquisition processes and procedures
  • Knowledge of NATO and command with NATO Communications and information Systems (CIS) services
  • Hands on experience and production of comprehensive statements, technical and programmatic documents
  • Recognized formal Project Management qualification such as Prince 2 or equivalent
  • Must hold Security Clearance NATO Secret
  • Fluent business English; knowledge of another NATO member-state language is an asset

Desirable experience

  • Risk Management
  • Experience in designing and system engineering of military or other C4ISR systems
  • Proven success as a project team leader in C4ISR acquisition projects
  • First-hand experience with the NATO Bi-SC AIS and their programmatic structure, technical requirements, architectural aspects and implementation processes
  • Experience with NATO investment Committee and their supporting staff
  • Experience with NATO contracting and contract administration procedures

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