Airc2 / BMD Project Manager

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting

Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is NATO’s leading agent for change: driving, facilitating, and advocating the continuous improvement of Alliance capabilities to maintain and enhance the military relevance and effectiveness of the Alliance. The main objectives of ACT are: providing appropriate support to NATO missions and operations; leading NATO military transformation; and improving relationships, interaction and practical cooperation with partners, nations and international organisations. ACT therefore leads Alliance concept development, capability development, training and lessons-learned initiatives and provides unfettered military support to policy development within NATO.

The program 

Capability Development & Management Support (CDMS)

 DCOS Capability Development (CAPDEV) acts as the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation's Director for guidance, direction and coordination of the activities and resources of the Capability Development Directorate.

The Requirements Division will execute all tasks and activities needed to support requirements management for NATO capabilities

The Capability Requirements (CR) Branch will develop the Capability Requirements Brief and recommended courses of action to resolve issues through the life cycle management of requirements using matrixed, cross-functional project-specific Requirements Management teams.

The Requirements Forward Branch (Mons) is responsible for conducting requirements development and management representation and engagement-related functions in Europe.

The Capability Division coordinates the development of capabilities from capability planning through acceptance and then disposal with management entities, NATO Headquarters staff and the NATO Governance Structure

The Capability Forward Branch (Mons) coordinates with ACO, NCIA, NSPA, NATO HQ, territorial Host Nations, and NATO Centres of Excellence (COEs) to support the development of capabilities.

Strategic Plans and Policy (SPP) supports Allied Command Transformation in formalizing military advice to shape future military strategy, political guidance, and other policy documents supporting NATO’s strategic objectives.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Support the BMD Programme Director in the definition and execution:
• Update of the Programme Management Environment (programme management plan, risk and issue management tools, etc.) through full spectrum of DOTMLPFI;
• Support all BMD Capability related activities; Coordination meetings, Testing Events,
• Assessment
• Support BMD-POW planning and execution:
• Support maintaining 5-year BMD-POW plan in line with BMD Capability deliveries considering full DOTMLPFI aspects.
• Coordinate and prepare annual BM-POW related documents and present/defend in various budget, governance meetings.
• Support Branch’s NIAG (NATO Industry Advisory Group) studies on IAMD related topics, challenges and issues.
• Provide SME support on (T)BMD and IAMD matters to various entities, relevant working groups; such as COEs, NATO-2030, MDO, e.g.
• Maintain a comprehensive knowledge and oversight over the planning and execution of all BMD-related projects develops and manage the BMD Programme Plan, for all the
• deliverables correlated with the life-cycle and the progressive and incremental implementation of BMC3I.
• Provides the BMD Programme Director with the programmatic data, as required, and executes the plans in Quality Assurance, in terms of cost, scope, schedule, performance and risk management, against agreed tolerances; needs to have relevant skill set and experience for this role.
• Contributes to the acceptance, testing and documentation of BMD-related capabilities and supports their transition to operation.
• Maintains a five year Programme of Work (POW), with associated resources and deliverables, and execute it in coordination with the related Programme Director, Science and Technology, Research and Development, Concept Development and Experimentation, and common-funded related-capability continuum of investments and activities.
• Supports the BMD capability life-cycle configuration and management structure, including chair or membership of various steering committees, working groups and subordinate committees.
• Provides subject matter expertise (SME) or sponsors C2 or Communications and Information Services (CIS) works, related to any BMD outputs or other deliverables needed to support IAMD capability development.
• Consolidates or coordinates reports to governance, supporting HQ SACT engagement with the relevant senior leaderships and other branches.
• Engage with key stakeholders, in order to propose, develop and maintain associated Branch-level management planning products and processes.
• Support development of the new CPPs, PPs and other supporting documents required during the base and option periods.
• Liaise with other programmes or initiatives (e.g. Multi Domain Operations, Day Zero Secure Communications, Federated Mission Network, Digital Transformation…) in the aspects related to BMD/IAMD area.
• Directly support to AirC2/IAMD Branch management planning via point papers, presentations and briefings.
• Coordinate BMD Programme inputs and carry out minimum monthly updates to the ACT Information Hub.
• Stakeholder engagement required to schedule and host BMD Coordination Meetings.
• Maintain Branch-level documents repository, index and other tools.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Minimum 3 years in the last 10 years of experience in the management of NATO/National defence programmes and/or projects;
• Extensive knowledge and experience in dealing with NATO/National BMD/IAMD domain business, programmes, governance structure and stakeholders – min. 3 years in the last 10 years;
• Knowledge about the NATO/governmental/corporate information flow and practical experience in business processes – minimum 3 years in the last 10 years;
• Demonstrated working level knowledge with MS Office tools (Outlook, Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint).
• Availability to travel to any NATO entity within the 30 Nations (valid passport with no travel restrictions to NATO nations).

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience in supporting & briefing senior leaders/decision makers;
• Experience in formulating and drafting conceptual documents like visions, concepts, plans, requirements, point papers, thesis, roadmaps etc.;
• Knowledge and practical experience managing NATO projects within capability package process as well as development of planning proposals within the Common Funded Capability Delivery Governance Model (CFCDGM).
• Knowledge about C3 capability management in NATO.
• Knowledge (certification) on Portfolio Management, MSP, PRINCE 2 and/or Agile or equivalent methodologies for programme/ project management;
• Knowledge of the NATO Architecture Framework (NAFv4) methodology and practices.
• Working knowledge of Configuration Management methods and practices.
• 3 years of experience in the last 10 years with working in a National or NATO Strategic Command or Operational Command.

Education

• University or Military College degree in either IT Engineering or Computer Science, or Communications, or Economics, or Business Administration or another related discipline

Language Proficiency

• Business English

Working Location

• Mons, Belgium

Working Policy

• On-Site

Contract Duration

• January 2025 – December 2027

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance