Programme Coordinator — Nuclear Command and Control Modernisation for NATO with security clearance

Work Life Group; Brussel Hoofdstad; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Job summary

Wlgroup in Brussels, Belgium, is seeking a programme or project manager to support a major defence security capability on site with relocation assistance. The role is long‑term and involves extensive travel to host nation sites.

You will work with headquarters staff and stakeholders to develop and monitor security plans, ensure compliance, review policy and publication reviews, and help keep the programme aligned with alliance practice through presentations and coordinated communications.

Qualifications

• A bachelor degree or higher.
• Experience of programme or project management in a common-funded governance model.
• Experience of technical communications or physical infrastructure projects for sensitive environments.
• Three of the last ten years in stakeholder management and coordination.
• Willingness to travel extensively.
• Fluent professional English.

Responsibilities

• Develop security plans with headquarters staff, agencies, stakeholders and end users and monitor their implementation across project groups.
• Ensure those plans are understood and complied with by all stakeholders.
• Travel frequently to host nation sites to coordinate communications and infrastructure progress (over 80 travel days per year).
• Support the programme director on site with stakeholder engagement and communications at political, operational and tactical levels.
• Identify requirements, policy developments and engineering publication reviews relevant to the programme.
• Work with security, policy and operations to keep the programme aligned with alliance practice.
• Review and update security policy, documentation and classification guides and author relevant sections of capability programme plans.
• Support the management of classified material.
• Develop and deliver presentations and training on security procedures.
• Keep every work strand linked to the rest of the office and other capability teams.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Technical communications

Willingness to travel

Fluent English

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

This post is based in Brussels, Belgium, on site. Relocation support is available.

A multinational defence organisation is modernising its nuclear consultation, command and control capability — the biggest programme in its common-funded portfolio, with delivery spread across host nations and several implementing entities. This post sits on site in Brussels and keeps that orchestration moving, with a strong security thread running through all of it.

What you would be doing

• Working with headquarters staff, agencies, stakeholders and end users to develop security plans and monitor their implementation across the project groups.
• Making sure those plans are understood and complied with by everyone who has to live with them.
• Travelling frequently to host nation sites to coordinate communications and infrastructure progress, run site surveys and give technical advice — in excess of eighty travel days a year.
• Supporting the programme director on site with stakeholder engagement and communication at political, operational and tactical levels.
• Helping identify requirements, policy developments and engineering publication reviews relevant to the programme.
• Working with the security, policy and operations branches across the organisation so the programme stays aligned with alliance practice.
• Reviewing and updating security policy, documentation and classification guides, and authoring the relevant sections of capability programme plans.
• Supporting the management of classified material.
• Developing and delivering presentations and training on security procedures.
• Keeping every work strand linked to the rest of the office and to the other capability teams.

What you would bring

• A bachelor degree or higher.
• Programme or project management experience, ideally under a common-funded capability delivery governance model or its national equivalent.
• Experience of technical communications or physical infrastructure projects for sensitive compartmented information facilities, delivered in secure environments.
• At least three of the last ten years in stakeholder management and coordination, aligning different organisations behind a common strategic goal.
• Willingness to travel well beyond the usual — this post is on the road a great deal.
• Fluent professional English.

This is a long engagement that renews year on year, not a short project.