NATO offers you more than a job. It gives you a mission: building peace and security for one billion people in Europe and North America. The NATO Communications & Information Agency is leading NATO’s Digital Endeavour. We are NATO’s technology and cyber leaders, helping NATO Nations to communicate and work together in smarter ways. Our work is challenging and meaningful, and you will develop and apply your expertise as part of a dynamic international team of civilian and military professionals.

What do we offer?

·       Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history

·       3 year contract with competitive tax-free salary and household and children’s allowances

·       Privileges for expatriate staff including expatriation and education allowances (where appropriate) and additional home leave

·       Excellent private health insurance scheme

·       Generous annual leave of 30 days plus official holidays

·       Pension Scheme

About the job

Based in The Hague, Netherlands you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our IT services to support NATO’s Digital Endeavour.

The Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (JISR) Centre is responsible for the full life cycle of its services. The JISR Centre’s Vision is to assure information superiority for NATO. Its Mission is to deliver, support and protect valued Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities, expertise and services and to maximise operational effectiveness for NATO.

You will assist the JISR Centre Business Manager in managing the portfolio of programmes, projects and services in the overall JISR Programme of Work (POW). You will also assist in tracking and reporting the health and status of services, projects, portfolios and programmes including collecting relevant information and carrying out statistical analysis relating to project and service execution, metrics and key performance indicators for service delivery. In cooperation with the JISR Centre management team, you will monitor effective resource planning to ensure optimal allocation to projects and services. You will also assist in the preparation of the annual Business Execution Plan (BEP), provide inputs to the project start-up process and service level agreements to ensure essential data is included and project plans are realistic and achievable, approve project plans and cost estimates prior to dissemination and provide guidance and support to project managers.

For a full list of duties, please review the job description here .

About you

We are looking for a talented and knowledgeable Head Project Management Officer with Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline and 3 years of post-related experience.

A different qualification coupled with particularly relevant experience may also be considered.

You should also have:

·       Experience and expertise (at least 3 years) across the Programme, Portfolio and Project Management domain

·       A recognised formal Project Management qualification, such as PRINCE2 or PMP.  The lack of formal qualifications can be compensated by the demonstration of expertise and experience in the domain

·       Experience with enterprise Project Management planning tools such as Microsoft Projector similar

·       Proven ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with good briefing skills

Knowledge of English, both written and spoken, is essential.

To learn more about NCI Agency and our work, please visit our website.

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) will not accept applications prepared, in whole or in part, by means of generative artificial-intelligence (AI) tools, including and without limitation to chatbots, such as Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (Chat GPT), or other language generating tools. All applications prepared, in whole or in part, by means of such generative or creative AI applications may be rejected without further consideration at the sole discretion of the NCI Agency.

Please note that ALL SELECTED CANDIDATES, with the exception of currently employed NATO International Civilians (NIC’s) will be appointed at the first Increment of the indicated NATO Grade, i.e. NATO Grade X, Increment 1.This is the salary referred to in this vacancy notice. Extra increments can only be considered for candidates from another Co-Ordinated Organisation.

Selected candidates who are not nationals of the host country and who have not been continuously resident in the host country for at least one year may be eligible for an expatriate allowance. For the purposes of determining continuous residence, NATO considers mainly the work location at the time recruitment started, independent of whether various ties were kept with the home country. For more information on our allowances click here.

All selected candidates are required to complete a Security Clearance, Medical Clearance and Pre-employment Screening process before joining the NCI Agency. This process will require time, so please keep in mind that you will not be able to start working with us right away.