C002870 Senior Project Manager (CTS) - FRI 9 Jun

Deadline Date: Friday 9 June 2023

Requirement: Senior Project Manager

Location: Braine L'Alleud, BE

Full time on-site: Yes

Time On-Site: 100%

NATO Grade: G17/101

Total Scope of the request (hours): 836

Required Start Date: 10 July 2023

End Contract Date: 30 December 2023

Required Security Clearance: NATO COSMIC TOP SECRET

Duties and Role:

Under the direction of the Principal Business manager and Lead Project Managers but largely on his own initiative, the incumbent will perform duties such as the following:

• Manage projects to ensure they are delivered within agreed scope, time, cost and quality limits, and in accordance with NCIA project management practices and processes. This includes all project aspects: risk management, issue management, financials management, project team management, stakeholder management, resource management, quality management, change management, requirements management, transition into service operation, contractor management, procurement management etc.
• Develop cost estimates and price proposals
• Report / communicate on project progress internally (within NCIA) and externally.
• Manage & escalate project exceptions as required and proactively; including the proposal of mitigation actions
• Use the MS-EPM (Microsoft Enterprise Project Management) framework (or any other replacement tool) used by NCIA
• Develop & maintain project and resource plans in compliance with NCIA's directives and project management best practices. This includes:
  • Monitor and control project progress to ensure resources are consumed in accordance with the approved budget and within the approved timelines;
  • Identify, plan, request and manage the deployment of resources to meet project milestones and initiate corrective actions when necessary;
• Use EBA (Enterprise Business Application; NCI Agency ERP system), monitor and control project financial status and execute project managers duties in Agency defined Procure to Pay process
• Deputize for higher grade staff, if required;
• Performs other duties as may be required

Requirements

Skill, Knowledge & Experience:

• The candidate must have a currently active NATO COSMIC TOP SECRET security clearance
• A Master of Science (MSc) degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline; Or exceptionally, the lack of a degree may be compensated by a lower academic qualification combined with the demonstration of particular abilities or experience of relevance to this post;
• Recent experience (at least five years) as project manager for large CIS infrastructure project(s), preferably in a large and international organization;
• Proven experience in applying multi-discipline engineering and management techniques in the acquisition of complex communication and information systems (CIS);
• Proven experience in managing, planning, design, system engineering and implementation of military or other communication and information systems;
• Proven knowledge and experience in state-of-the-art technologies, relevant to the work, including information processing and transfer of information;
• Formal project management qualification such as PRINCE 2 or PMI PMP;
• Proficiency in planning, simulating, progress tracking and reporting using MS Project/EPM 2010/2013
• Proficiency in using MS Office and SharePoint tools
• Proactive attitude in seeking and maintaining trust from stakeholders
• Experience in private and/or public cloud infrastructure deployment, user and application migration projects (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and transition of projects to services and operations
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing, in English, with good briefing skills
• Ability to work in a pressure environment

Desirable Experience and Education

• Recent relevant experience on medium NATO projects in a leadership function
• Recent experience in migration & transition of large user communities to new IT solutions
• Experience in large IT infrastructure (data centers, networking, security, end user devices) projects with substantial investment
• Domain knowledge in client devices configurations, large rollouts, migration
• Domain knowledge in cyber security area
• Knowledge of international, commercial/industrial standards for information processing and transfer of information;
• Knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organization, including ACO and ACT
• Conversant w