Programme Lead, Deployable Communications for NATO

WLG; Konak; On-site; TRY 5,355,000 - 6,816,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NATO-5 visa

Relocation to the United States

Job summary

WLG is relocating a NATO-5 visa-supported programme management position to Norfolk, Virginia, USA. You will oversee a portfolio of interdependent projects, logging issues, tracking milestones and maintaining plan integrity.

You will review management products, conduct quality reviews, and apply risk, change and lessons-learned processes within a multinational defence context. Fluent English is required.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

MSP

PRINCE2

PMI

Risk management

Change management

Quality reviews

English proficiency

Education

University degree in project/programme management, engineering, CS, telecommunications or related field

Job description

WLG is relocating a NATO-5 visa-supported programme management position to Norfolk, Virginia, USA. You will oversee a portfolio of interdependent projects, logging issues, tracking milestones and maintaining plan integrity.

You will review management products, conduct quality reviews, and apply risk, change and lessons-learned processes within a multinational defence context. Fluent English is required.