IT Project Manager (Infrastructure, Networks and Cyber) for NATO with security clearance
WLG · Oeiras, Portugal
Financial Services · 2-10 employees
About the role
The IT Project Manager will lead a cross-functional team to define, approach, and successfully deliver a medium-scale project at a NATO site. Responsibilities include maintaining project plans, managing risks and issues, and ensuring quality control across infrastructure, networking, and cyber security domains.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree and possess at least five years of experience managing acquisition or capability development projects in structured environments. An active security clearance is mandatory for this position.
Full description
Five hundred hours, one medium-scale project, and a September start. If you deliver best when the scope is finite and the governance is real, this suits.
You will take full responsibility for a project at a NATO site in Oeiras: definition, approach, control and formal acceptance, leading a cross functional team.
What you will be doing
- Owning definition, approach, management, control and satisfactory completion of the project
- Leading the project team and working across applications, infrastructure, networking and cyber security
- Maintaining realistic plans and giving stakeholders regular, accurate reporting
- Managing the change process, and assessing and managing risks, issues and lessons learned
- Keeping quality reviews on schedule and to procedure
- Monitoring cost, time, quality and scope, and acting when performance drifts outside tolerance
What you will need
- A bachelor's degree in a related discipline from a recognised university
- At least five years managing acquisition or capability development projects for a large organisation
- Proven work with technical teams across several domains, and real command of dependencies, risks and issues
- Experience in structured, policy-driven environments with defined governance and security requirements
- Formal training or demonstrable experience in complex project management, and familiarity with transition to service
- Familiarity with a C4ISR environment is an advantage
Worth knowing before you apply
- Fully on-site in Oeiras
- About 500 hours from late September to the end of December 2026
Practical detail
- Contract engagement
- An active security clearance is required for this role
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