Senior Project Manager for NATO with security clearance

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

Your CV may not be up to date. That is not a problem, send me whatever you have and I will come back to you either way.