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

·        Retirement Pension Plan

About the job

Based in Braine L’Alleud, Belgium, you will join The NATO Infrastructure Services Centre (NISC). NISC is accountable for planning and executing the full lifecycle management activities (design, transition and operations) for the identified area of responsibility. As Senior Project Manager, you will take full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of IT projects.

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

About you

We are looking for; A talented and knowledgeable Project Management professional with demonstrable experience managing projects within the likes of: Private and/or public cloud infrastructure deployment, user and application migration projects (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS); Communication and Information Systems (CIS) network design, switched multimedia networks.

Ideally you will have a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and 3 years of post-related experience. Exceptionally, the lack of a university 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 10 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function of the post;

We are also looking for a recognised formal Project Management qualification, such as PRINCE 2 Practitioner / Project Management Professional (PMP).  The lack of formal qualifications can be compensated by the demonstration of expertise and experience in the domain;

Recent experience (at least five years) and knowledge in the successful project management of ICT projects 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

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

Competencies

The NCI Agency is looking for individuals have tangible experience and knowledge in following areas:

·        Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations

·        Deciding and Initiating Action

·        Relating and Networking

·        Adapting and Responding to Change

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

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.