• Defines, documents and executes small projects or sub-projects;
• Applies appropriate project management methods and tools;
• Identifies, assesses and manages risks effectively;
• Tracks activities against the project schedule, managing stakeholder involvement as appropriate.

Exercise coordination:

• Work with the exercise planner team to determine the communication and information system needs for exercises;
• Evaluate the CIS requirements and prepare a brief overview for the internal stakeholders;
• Evaluate the technical and incident management support expected during the exercise;
• Support the exercise planner in the evaluation of the possible CIS solutions and alternatives to meet the requirements;
• Liaise with exercise planners and various CIS teams to ensure all technical elements are aligned with the exercise's objectives;
• Plans, schedules, monitors and reports on exercise portfolio

Related activities:

• Engages with senior managers to ensure the portfolio will deliver the agreed business objectives;
• Notifies projects/change initiatives of issues and recommends and monitors corrective action;
• Advises on the available standards, procedures, methods, tools and techniques;
• Identifies and evaluates alternative solutions;
• Ensures that all participants are engaged throughout the exercise and fully prepared to support the operational environment;
• Builds long-term, strategic relationships with senior stakeholders (internal and external);
• Supports operational managers to ensure that all plans, work packages and deliverables are aligned with the expected benefits;
• Builds long-term, strategic relationships with senior stakeholders (internal and external);
• Acts as a single point of contact for the exercise stakeholders, facilitating relationships between them;
• Negotiates to ensure that stakeholders understand and agree on what will meet their needs, and that appropriate agreements are defined;
• Oversees monitoring of relationships including lessons learned and appropriate feedback.

Requirements definition and management:

• Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity;
• Contributes to selecting the requirements approach;
• Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritisation of requirements;
• Establishes requirements base-lines, obtains formal agreement to requirements, and ensures traceability to source.

Additional duties:

• Deliver on time/cost and scope of Projects under his/her responsibility;
• Contribute to other project activities in support of higher roles Project Managers (from project initiation to project closure);
• Take appropriate actions following Agency procedures and upper management decisions to successfully deliver projects;
• Adopt the project approach defined by his/her Projects Portfolio Manager following Agency processes. Risk management;
• Carries out risk management activities within a specific function, technical area or project of medium complexity;
  Identifies risks and vulnerabilities, assesses their impact and probability, develops mitigation strategies and reports to the business;
• Involves specialists and domain experts as necessary.