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Spektrum have a wide range of exciting opportunities in several global locations.
We are always looking to add great new talent to our team and look forward to hearing from you.
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 seek personnel to join our team and support key client projects.
Introduction
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; 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:
The Programme Management Office (PMO) within Headquarter Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (HQ SACT). The PMO provides a capability development quality assurance process, advising senior management in the composition of the suite of Programmes and their progress against plans, and serves as a hub for information allowing efficient use of relevant and updated data, promoting and facilitating the distribution of programme and project information between management layer capability development stakeholders (including Strategic Commands (SCs), Host Nations (HNs), NATO Agencies, NATO HQ, etc.).
Role Responsibilities
Task 1 – Reporting
Develop and maintain reporting process for ACT Capability Development;
Incorporating governance’s reporting requirements into management reporting processes;
Ensure quality of reporting is in line with reporting requirements;
Facilitate management reporting towards governance through Capability Management Function framework;
Report programme status to boards – timely and accurate information focused on decision-making;
Develop and maintain a single comprehensive picture of the enterprise (programme management dashboard, balanced scorecard);
Provide a single source of truth for reporting – single report/data feed – consolidated/aggregated reports to different audiences.
Task 2 – Consultancy
Provide tailoring advice and guidance;
Provide programme or project rescues (help programmes/projects in trouble with reviews and analysis, hit squads or recovery plans);
Promote good PPM within the organization;
Advise Capability Directors (CD)/Capability Monitors (CM) and management boards of appropriate frameworks/governance models.
Task 3 – Finance
Monitor and report on programme spend;
Calculate and analyse programme cost variance;
Estimate future programme spend;
Prepare quarterly financial reports for programme directors for inclusion in management dashboard reports.
Task 4 – Cost Estimation:
Life-cycle cost estimation for CIS & Software Intensive Capability Programme Plans (CPPs);
Development of cost and schedule tolerances for CPPs;
Documenting and presenting of cost/schedule/tolerance estimates;
Support CPP process by filling in Capability Description Sheet(s), and cost/schedule/tolerance tables;
Provide quality assurance reviews on industry provided cost/schedule/tolerance estimations Support cost estimation policy, guidance and direction, standard operating procedure documentation creation;
Monitor and report on spend rates for material projects and programmes;
Calculate and analyse cost variance for material projects and programmes;
Estimate future spending for material projects and programmes;
Prepare quarterly financial reports for programme directors for inclusion in management dashboard reports;
Provide a single source of truth for reporting – single report/data feed – consolidated/aggregated reports to different audiences;
Additional Tasks as directed by COTR.
Any additional tasks as directed by COTR.
Education
Bachelor’s University degree in a related field or in business
management, economics, or mathematics, or other equivalent discipline.
Required Skills and Experience
Experience within the last ten (10) years:
Minimum of five (5) years’ experience in leading teams in cost/schedule estimation of communications/information software systems within a complex, diverse, and dynamic environment.
Experience of capability development processes related to national/NATO military programme development and/or acquisition phases.
Experience of programme management cost estimation preferably using SEER or Trueplanning, Crystal Ball, or ACEIT software.
Ability to work with parametric lifecycle software tools for cost estimating and analysis.
An expert in the use of Microsoft Excel software and familiar with the use of other computer-based support tools.
Minimum of two (2) years working with the NATO Common Funded Capability Delivery Governance Model for capability development.
Minimum of two (2) years working in a multinational organization or NATO Command Structure (NCS) / NATO Force Structure (NFS) and familiarity with NATO agencies’ role in capability development and implementation.
Minimum of three (3) years in a Programme Management Office executing quality assurance risk management, and processing lessons learned.
Minimum of two (2) years in effective quality assurance to include quality control on management products, standardization compliance, and execution of quality reviews.
Minimum of six (6) months producing cost estimation.
Security Clearance
National Secret or NATO Secret Clearance
Language Requirements
Mandatory Professional-level English
Working Policy
Onsite – Norfolk, Virignia, USA
1800 hours per year
Moday – Friday
5 hours per day
The basis of this calculation is 46 weeks of contract performance at 37.5 hours assuming s HQ SACT work days per week.
Travel
Occasional Business Travel
Contract Duration
Jan 2024 to Dec 2024
Most likely extended to Dec 2028
We never know what new opportunities might be just over the horizon. If this opportunity isn’t for you please feel free to send us your resume anyway and be the first to know if something suitable for your skills and experience comes up.
