Programme Manager — Deployable Communications Capability for NATO with security clearance

WLG; Brunssum; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NATO-5 visa program

Full-time employment under delivery of

Relocation package

Job summary

WLG in the Netherlands is seeking a seasoned Programme Manager to oversee a portfolio of interdependent projects in a multinational defence context. This is a full-time role offering relocation to the United States with a NATO-5 visa for you and your family.

You will drive issue resolution, risk management, and quality reviews, ensuring plans stay honest and aligned with capability goals. This is a long engagement that renews year on year, not a short project.

Qualifications

• University degree in project or programme management or a closely related field.
• At least five years in project management of communications or information systems using MSP, PRINCE2 or PMI.
• At least three years managing risks and issues in a complex programme.
• At least three years applying change management in a capability programme.
• At least three years running quality reviews and audits.
• At least three years in deployable communications or signals as SME.
• At least three years in multinational alliance/military environments.
• Fluent professional English.

Responsibilities

• Handle issues and changes through established processes, delivering clear situational awareness.
• Capture and log every programme issue affecting the capability.
• Sequence activities and milestones, keeping the plan honest.
• Review staff reports and project specs for clarity and content.
• Run programme quality reviews and audits using qualitative and quantitative techniques.
• Capture operational lessons from exercises and live ops, turning them into capability gaps.
• Own the programme risk log: identify, estimate, evaluate and prepare responses.
• Reconcile reporting databases so project expenditure is accurately represented to stakeholders.
• Communicate timely, analysed information to the people it affects.

Skills

Programme management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

English proficiency

Education

University degree in project or programme management, engineering, computer science, telecommunications or related field

Job description

Relocation to the United States — Norfolk, Virginia. We provide the NATO-5 visa for you and your family.

This post is a full employment contract with our delivery partner, with the benefits that go with it — not a contractor or B2B arrangement. Agreeing to be employed is the first condition of the role.

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.