Overview
Seeking an ICT Programme and Project Manager to provide programme-level leadership and coordination for ATHINA, DG HERA’s digital platform. The role involves managing a portfolio of interdependent IT projects to ensure coherent planning and delivery within a complex institutional environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing programme-level leadership and coordination for ATHINA.
- Managing a portfolio of multiple interdependent IT projects.
- Establishing and running programme governance.
- Overseeing budgets, managing risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Ensuring regular, high-quality reporting.
- Supporting the IT Portfolio Manager by maintaining an overview of ATHINA’s contribution to the wider ICT portfolio.
- Contributing to prioritisation, resource planning, and delivery forecasting.
- Coordinating with European Commission IT services, Member State authorities, and external partners.
- Ensuring individual ATHINA projects are initiated and taken forward effectively.
- Ensuring solutions meet agreed quality and security standards and transition smoothly into operation.
Required Experience
- Proven experience managing complex ICT programmes and projects end-to-end.
- Demonstrable experience running programme governance.
- Experience managing a portfolio of parallel, interdependent workstreams.
- Strong stakeholder management experience in an institutional context.
- Demonstrable experience of budget planning, monitoring and forecasting for large-scale ICT initiatives.
- Experience working with multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience with agile delivery methods in combination with formal governance.
- Demonstrable experience of IT security considerations in delivery.
- Experience delivering and operating solutions in cloud-based environments.
Qualifications
- Professional training or certification in project and programme management, ideally including PM2 and agile delivery approaches.
- Have a level of education which corresponds to completed university studies of at least three years attested by a diploma.
