About The Position
A multinational defence organisation develops the communications and information systems that deploy with its forces. This is the programme management seat: keeping issues, risks and quality under control across a portfolio of interdependent projects.
Requirements
- 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.
- Security clearance required.
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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
