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

Wlgroup; Konak; On-site; TRY 4,202,000 - 5,882,000; Full time

Job summary

Wlgroup in Brussels-based defence organisation seeks a programme manager to oversee security plans, governance and integration across project groups on site.

You will travel extensively, coordinate with headquarters, stakeholders and end users, develop policy and training materials, and ensure compliance with security practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree or higher.
• Programme or project management experience.
• Experience with technical communications or infrastructure projects for secure facilities.
• At least three of the last ten years in stakeholder management and coordination.
• Willingness to travel widely for the role.
• Fluent professional English.

Responsibilities

• Develop security plans with headquarters staff, agencies and end users.
• Ensure plans are understood and followed by all stakeholders.
• Travel to host nation sites to coordinate progress and provide technical advice.
• Support programme director with stakeholder engagement at various levels.
• Identify requirements, policy developments and reviews for the programme.
• Coordinate across security, policy and operations to stay aligned with practices.
• Review/update security policy and classification guides and authoring sections of programme plans.
• Support management of classified material.
• Develop and deliver presentations and training on security procedures.
• Keep all work strands linked to the wider office.

Skills

Security governance

Programme management

Stakeholder coordination

Travel willingness

Fluent English

Education

Bachelor 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.