Deadline Date: Wednesday 16 October 2024
Requirement: Project Manager
Location: The Hague, NL
Full Time On-Site: No
Time On-Site: 40% (On-site 2 days per week)
Total Scope of the request (hours): 410
Required Start Date: 2 December 2024
End Contract Date: 31 December 2024
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Duties and Role:
Under the direction of the SSBA Projects Head, the incumbent will perform duties such as the following:
- Takes full responsibility for the definition, execution and satisfactory completion of medium and large scale projects (typically with direct business impact and firm deadlines), including the identification, assessment and management of risks and issues related to the project.
- Takes responsibility for understanding customer requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and resolving problems.
- Identifies, plans, assigns and manages resources in order to meet project milestones, including co-ordinating with Resource Managers to ensure availability of relevant SMEs.
- Ensures that realistic project plans are maintained and that there is regular and accurate communication to stakeholders, consistent with the methods in use (agile, waterfall, etc.).
- Ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, schedule and quality and are signed off, including management of any change requests using appropriate processes.
- Takes part in setting and monitoring quality and performance criteria and ensures Quality Reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure.
- Supports and mentors customers in the aspects of business change required to support the implementation of new tools and procedures.
- Provides effective leadership to the project team.
- Prepares and delivers briefings and presentations as needed.
- Allocates routine tasks and / or project work.
- Performs other duties as may be required.
Requirements
Skill, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- A Master's degree at a nationally recognized/certified University in a related discipline and 5 years post-related experience, or a Bachelor's degree with 8 years post related experience.
- Recognized PM qualifications / certifications, such as: PRINCE2 Practitioner / PMI PMP (or equivalent), Programme Management (MSP or equivalent), Management of Risk (MoR) or Agile (for PMs of software intensive projects).
- Demonstrable experience in managing complex C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers (C4) Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) projects, noting that SSBA's primary focus is on Business Applications, including Oracle ERP, ServiceNow for Project and Portfolio management, and a range of other Business Applications supporting the NCI Agency and other NATO bodies.
- Ideally, experience in delivering projects relating to Oracle EBS Finance and Project Accounting.
- Experience with project management techniques and toolsets; the agency uses Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) from ServiceNow.
- Experience as a Project Manager of Acquisition/Procurement projects (ideally more than 1 M Euro) or Non-acquisition projects (less than 1 M Euro) and / or Software intensive projects.
- Proven experience in supervising and managing larger project teams, containing subject matter experts and specialist consultants.
- Exposure to or awareness of all phases of software development projects including analysis, systems design, development and testing approaches.
- Proven experience working with sub-contractors. Note that many SSBA projects are delivered using external contractors, with the Agency PM role focusing on managing contractors, customers, and ensuring excellence in delivery.
- Experience working in an international environment and with remote teams.
Person traits:
- Enthusiastic, driven, self-motivated with a focus on customer service.
- Able to work independently, excellent personal organisation and able to demonstrate consistently balanced good judgement and logical thought prioritisation.
- Very strong interpersonal skills including facilitation and coaching and able to lead and influence others.
- A thorough knowledge of English, both written and spoken, is essential.
