Job Description

Would you like to join the leading international intergovernmental organization?

As a Project Manager within NATO's NCI Agency, you will take full ownership of complex, high-impact ICT projects from initiation through to successful closure. You will be responsible for delivering projects within agreed scope, time, cost, and quality tolerances—ensuring that capability and services are transitioned into operational use effectively and efficiently.

Responsibilities:

• Manage projects to ensure projects are delivered within agreed scope, time, cost and quality tolerances;

• Develop and maintain agreed project and resource plans and detailed stage plans in compliance with the NCIA's directives and project management best practices;

• Identify, plan, request and manage the deployment of resources to meet project milestones and initiate corrective actions when necessary;

• Take responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution;

• Develop of procurement strategy, benefit risk analysis, business case to secure sponsor acceptance and funding;

• Monitor and control project financial status and execute project managers duties in Agency defined Procure to Pay process;

• Execute the necessary Quality Assurance functions essential to the successful delivery of capability and services;

• Support reporting and communications with the Service Centre and NCIA's senior leadership, in order to ensure projects are monitored and controlled across all management levels;

• Manage internal and external stakeholder groups and build networks to gain support to deliver projects successfully.

Essential Qualifications & Experience:

• A Minimum requirement of a Bachelor's degree, at a nationally recognized /certified University in a related 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 6 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 five years) and knowledge in the successful project management for a large, preferably international, organization;

• Knowledge and experience in state-of-the-art technologies, relevant to the work and familiarity with related international / commercial / industrial standards;

• Proactive attitude in seeking and maintaining trust from stakeholders;

• Extensive experience with Project Management Tools;

• Experience and certification in Agile Project Management (Agile PM, Scrum);

• Experience and certification in Service Management (i.e. ITIL V3 or V4);

• Experience in supplier management, negotiations, conflict resolution and contract management;

• Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements;

• Knowledge and experience with NATO's procurement process forICT projects;

• Experience in large IT infrastructure (data centers, networking, security, end user devices) implementation projects;

• Experience in communicating with senior management and large groups (briefings, written and oral presentations

If you've read the description and feel this role is a great match, we'd love to hear from you! Click "Apply for this job" to be directed to a brief questionnaire. It should only take a few moments to complete, and we'll be in touch promptly if your experience aligns with our needs.