Deadline Date: Thursday 5 February 2026
Requirement: Change Manager
Location: Mons, BE
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Total Scope of the request (hours): 836
Required Start Date: 16 March 2026
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Duties & Role:
Change Management:
- Participate on Collaborate with cross-functional teams to assess, authorize, and oversee changes to our IT environment.
- Evaluate change requests, ensuring they align with business objectives and minimize risks.
- Maintain a robust change management process, including documentation, communication, and post-implementation reviews.
- Facilitate change advisory board (CAB) meetings and ensure timely approvals.
- Monitor the impact of changes and address any issues promptly.
Problem Management:
- Investigate recurring incidents and identify underlying root causes, preparing the PIR (Post Incident Reviews) and RCA (Root Cause Analyze) documents.
- Conduct thorough root cause analyses to prevent similar incidents from reoccurring.
- Collaborate with technical teams to implement permanent fixes.
- Maintain a problem knowledge base for reference and continuous improvement.
- Proactively identify potential problems and work towards preventive measures.
Configuration Management (Secondary Scope):
- Plan the configuration management process.
- Identify the configuration management data as well as CIs and associated stakeholders.
- Control the CIs or the receipts, as well as deviations from those receipts.
- Make sure the configuration items in the CMDB are up to the standards and is updated regularly.
- Keep track of the changes made in the configuration and report to management about compliancy failures.
Principal Assistant / Admin Activities:
- Assist in the creation of the Purchase Requests (PR) in our internal system, also following up the lifecycle of PRs.
- Assist and prepare the necessary paperwork to bring in third party contractors (from HP, Cisco, etc.) to the different NATO facilities but mainly BLA and SHAPE.
- Responsible for preparing and managing the paperwork for the creation of new NATO CIS accounts for third party contractors and all the other processes related to that.
Requirements
Skill, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in change management and problem management activities of IT Services.
- Minimum 2 years in configuration management or in a similar capacity.
- Proven experience on preparing the PIR (Post Incident Reviews) and RCA (Root Cause Analyze) documents of IT Services.
- ITIL Foundation certification (higher-level ITIL certifications are a plus). Familiarity with ITIL best practices and frameworks.
- Knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organization, including ACO and ACT. This can be compensated with equal or more amount of time spent in a governmental position or a military position.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
- Ability to work effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Familiar with different admin activities in NATO or any other government/military organization.
- Analytical thinking and active listening.
- Knowledge of NATO financial and resource management applications, like (EBA, SNOW, ect)
