Security Programme Lead — Brussels (Relocation Included)

Work Life Group; Brunssum; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Wlgroup is seeking a security programme/communications professional to lead cross‑organisational security plans, coordinate stakeholders, and travel to host nation sites for implementation oversight and site surveys. The role emphasises governance, policy alignment and delivery across a multinational defence programme.

The candidate will work with HQ staff, agencies and end users, delivering training, architectural reviews and security documentation while maintaining alignment with alliance

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Bachelor degree

Project management

Stakeholder management

Technical communications

Secure environments

Travel willingness

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

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

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 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.