C004533 Principal Assistant; Project Support

The Hague, Netherlands | Posted on 17/12/2025

McBride, based in McLean, VA, USA, and with offices in Brussels and Bucharest (McBride International), is a Prime Contractor on the NCIA A&AS Framework. We are a management and IT consulting firm with significant professional services experience that includes IT transformation, project management, digital transformation, strategic planning, business process improvement, change management, human capital management, systems engineering, and operations. Due to our excellent relationship with NATO and the first-class, security cleared candidates that we source and supply from all 32 NATO nations, we are extremely privileged to ask you to review this role to assess your suitability of skills.

You will be working as a contractor for our client – NATO Communications & Information Agency (NCIA) NATO Communications & Information Agency (NCIA) NCIA was established on 1 July 2012 from a merger of several NATO entities. It has a 65-year legacy of supporting NATO operations, missions, and exercises and is on the front lines against cyber threats, protecting NATO's networks 24/7.

NCIA provides expertise and services that are critical to NATO's ability to fulfill its core tasks of consultation, collective defence, and crisis management

Duties:

• Information management
• Recommends remediation actions as required.
• Identifies risks around the use of information.
• Reports on the consolidated statusof information controls to inform effective decision-making.
• Monitors the implementation of effective controls for internal delegation, audit and control relating to information and records management.
• Supports the implementation of information and records management policies and standard practice.
• Portfolio, programme and project support
• Supports programme or project control boards, project assurance teams and quality review meetings.
• Takes responsibility for the provision of support services to projects.
• Uses and recommends project control solutions for planning, scheduling and tracking projects.
• Sets up and provides detailedguidance on project management software, procedures, processes, tools and techniques.
• Provides basic guidance on individual project proposals.
• May provide a cross programme viewon risk, change, quality, finance or configuration management. Stakeholderrelationship management
• Deals with problems and issues,managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned, and the collection and dissemination of relevant information.
• Implements stakeholder
• engagement/communications plan.
• Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure the effectiveness of stakeholder management.
• Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.
• Business administration
• Assists the team/manager in ensuring they have the information needed to support ongoing team processes.
• Assists in planning for meetings.
• Sets up and provides detailedguidance on software, procedures, processes, tools and techniques foradministration and workplace productivity.
• Liaises and organises acrossfunctions.
• Updates and maintains office policies and procedures.
• Preparing and internallycoordinating price proposals and / or Type B Cost Estimates (TBCE), including
  
  Statements of Work
• (SOW), for release to agency customers.
  
  This will be done throughcoordination with the relevant Subject Matter Experts
• Contributing as needed in project delivery: review project documents, site implementation, change management,risk & issue management etc.
• Preparing and maintaining projectplans (including service now activities)
• Assisting in resource allocations
• Work with project managers on business intake management
• Work with project managers onregular reports based on agency standard tools and service line specific tools
• Act as project manager for smallprojects which includes all activities related to the PM function from projectstart-up to project closure
• Create, maintain and administerproject plans, as needed, on behalf of Project Managers;
• Coordinate with Resource Manager sin respect to availability of resources to undertake activities on projects;
• Coordinate with Contracting…