Requirement: Senior Project Manager
Location: Oeiras, PORTUGAL
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Not to Exceed Rate: 82 EUR
Total Scope of the request (hours): 500
Required Start Date: 21 September 2026
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Please do NOT apply for any NATO contract positions unless you meet ALL the following criteria:
- Current National or NATO SECRET clearance
- Nationality of one of the NATO member countries
- Current work visa for the specific location if applying for an in-country position
Duties & Role:
- Adopts appropriate project management methods and tools.
- Takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, management, control and satisfactory completion of medium-scale projects.
- Provides effective leadership to the project team.
- Works effectively with cross functional teams.
- Manages the change process and assesses and manages risks, issues and lesson learned.
- Ensures that realistic project plans are maintained and delivers regular and accurate communication and / or reports to stakeholders.
- Ensures project and product quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure.
- Ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, time and scope, and are formally accepted, by appropriate stakeholders.
- Monitors costs, time, quality and scope and takes action where performance deviates or is predicted to deviate from agreed tolerances.
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- A minimum requirement of a Bachelor's degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in Project management of acquisition and / or capability development projects for a large organization.
- Proven experience working with technical teams across multiple technical domains, including applications, infrastructure, networking and cyber security.
- Demonstrated experience managing dependencies, risks and issues.
- Experience operating in structured, policy-driven environments with defined governance and security requirements.
- Formal training or demonstrable experience in complex project management.
- Familiarity with transition to service.
- Familiarity with NATO and C4ISR environment.
- Strong experience using Project Management tools, estimating, planning and managing cost and labour
- Relevant experience in leading a cross functional team, preferably in international environment.
- Relevant experience in project control (quality, resource management, scope and budget)
- Experience in training, education or mission-support environments involving CIS systems.
- Has a recognized formal Project Management qualification, such as PRINCE2 or PMP.
