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 

At Spektrum, we support a wide range of NATO organizations and programmes by providing highly skilled professionals across defence, security, digital transformation, engineering, and information technology. Our teams contribute to projects that strengthen the Alliance's operational readiness, enhance interoperability between member nations, and enable the delivery of critical capabilities across land, air, maritime, cyber, and space domains.

For this opportunity, our client is a private technology company that delivers advanced IT and engineering services in support of NATO programmes. Working alongside NATO stakeholders, the company provides technical expertise, software development, systems integration, and digital solutions that help modernize and sustain mission-critical capabilities. As part of this project, consultants will contribute to the development and support of technologies that underpin NATO's operational effectiveness and long-term digital transformation.

Role ID –CO-424341-Wi-IMA

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide ad-hoc support to all activities related to the National BRASS implementations, such as TBCE (Type B Cost Estimate) generation or review support, IFB (Invitation for Bid) preparation and evaluation and technical advice during project execution;
• Management and record of the releases of the BLOS AP Software to Nations;
• Capture the current BRASS and BLOS AP project baseline, in the relevant management tools (MS Project, Visio, Excel);
• Monitor the implementation of maritime projects to ensure they meet key technical, schedule and financial constraints. Report any forecasted exceptions to the Wi IMA PM on time;
• Monitor execution of projects, proactively detect potential issues and trigger mitigating actions;
• Prepare, organize and coordinate meetings, specifically the MIWG meetings and BRASS SAB (Security Accreditation Board) meetings as well as bilateral meeting with Nations and NATO bodies, and prepare minutes for each meeting;
• Maintain updated meeting records such as the Communication Plan, Issue Log and Action List. Issue meeting minutes and reports for follow on actions;
• Maintain updated the content of the maritime WEB Portal on NS Network Maritime web portal by evaluating the consistency and verify the correctness of the information, including the NS Lessons Learned WEB Portal;
• Support the development of Configuration Management Plan and Procedures for the BRASS/BLOS AP projects and ensure that project CM activities are carried out in accordance with established procedures and plans;
• Prepare project hand-over plans;
• Participate, as required, in individual Host Nation’s System Testing as well as Site Surveys, Acceptance and Handover of completed projects for operational use, review or prepare “Acceptance Test Procedures” and Security Accreditation documents;
• Prepare project deliverables such as Project/stage plans, Exception reports/plans, project management documents, end stage reports, draft project related correspondence;
• Ensure all project documents are complete, updated, and filed appropriately;
• Contribute to the development of service delivery and operation related instructions to support the deployment of BRASS enhancement 1 across the Alliance;
• Promote interoperability between individual BRASS/BLOS AP projects and coherence in the national implementations. For this purpose, prepare and maintain a database with information regarding BRASS/BLOS AP implementations and intentions and deployed services, for each BRASS/BLOS AP nation, with respect to: type of services, available interfaces, type and number of assets available to NATO, shipboard installations, overall infrastructure issues, namely obsolescence.
• Develop service delivery and operation related instructions to support the deployment of BRASS enhancement 1 across the Alliance.
• Liaise internally to ascertain all related to the BRASS/BLOS-AP documents and create a matrix of docs+signatories/version numbers etc.
• Maintain Risk and Issue Log and improve it by assessing template and format/set up/process and propose eventual improvements; creating an SoP for the risk/issue identification and articulation of risk statements; establishing and embedding risk types in the Risk Register; and establishing a similar Risk/Issue register for the MIWG/IMA representing the major/macro programme issues and risks as identified during the meetings

 Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications

• Have an official certification in at least one of the Project Management methodologies (PRINCE-2 and/or other project methodologies);
• Broad knowledge with minimum 3 years’ experience in project management of military CIS;
• Experience must include large scale projects through all phases and across wide geographical areas;
• Recent experience (within the last 6 years) in the planning, design, installation, testing and integration of CIS systems;
• Good knowledge of MS suite Office tools (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Project and MS PowerPoint);
• Good communication and coordination skills;

 Education

• Have an university degree (minimum BSc) in Electronics Engineering, Telecommunications, or in a related engineering field, coupled with at least 6 years’ experience in the area of CIS projects implementation, covering the full spectrum of practice from junior to senior responsibilities;

 Language Proficiency

• Excellent level of English, both written and spoken;

 Working Location

• Braine L’Alleud, Belgium

Working Policy

• Onsite

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance