Programme Manager — Deployable Communications Capability for NATO with security clearance

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.