Exercise Planning Analyst — Warfare Development and Lessons Learned for NATO with security clearance

Wlgroup; Eigenbrakel; Sur place; EUR 78 000 - 113 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Wlgroup seeks a seasoned defence planning professional to lead international exercise planning and governance. You will coordinate across multinational partners, develop campaign concepts, and document lessons learned to shape warfare development programs.

The role requires weekly strategic alignment, planning conferences, and producing formal campaign documents. A long-term engagement with year-on-year renewal is anticipated.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master degree in international relations, defence or strategic studies, political science, emergency management or related field.
• At least five years in military exercise planning, collective training or defence transformation.
• Familiarity with alliance exercise planning processes and their governing documents.
• Proven ability to draft professional planning documents, reports and campaign plans.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• Experience coordinating with multinational or interagency partners.
• Fluent professional English, spoken and written.

Responsabilités

• Carrying warfare development priorities and multi-domain objectives into the exercise enterprise.
• Supporting governance, synchronisation and strategic alignment across that enterprise.
• Taking part in planning conferences, workshops and coordination events.
• Developing, refining and documenting exercise campaign plans and concepts.
• Using exercises to identify capability gaps, refine concepts and assess emerging capabilities.
• Integrating the training innovation lines of effort - realism, new technology, harder scenarios.
• Supporting after-action review and lessons-learned processes, and drafting the formal reports and recommendations.
• Contributing to the rolling programmes of work.
• Coordinating with the other commands, partners and external stakeholders.

Connaissances

Project management

English proficiency

Multinational coordination

Strategic planning

Formation

Bachelor’s or Master in IR/defence/strategic studies

Related field experience

Description du poste

Relocation to the United States - Norfolk, Virginia. We provide the NATO-5 visa.

A multinational defence organisation runs a large exercise programme, and wants it aligned with where warfare development is going. This role does the joining up: the planning conferences, the campaign documents, and the after-action work that follows.

What you would be doing

• Carrying warfare development priorities and multi-domain objectives into the exercise enterprise.
• Supporting governance, synchronisation and strategic alignment across that enterprise.
• Taking part in planning conferences, workshops and coordination events.
• Developing, refining and documenting exercise campaign plans and concepts.
• Using exercises to identify capability gaps, refine concepts and assess emerging capabilities.
• Integrating the training innovation lines of effort - realism, new technology, harder scenarios.
• Supporting after-action review and lessons-learned processes, and drafting the formal reports and recommendations.
• Contributing to the rolling programmes of work.
• Coordinating with the other commands, partners and external stakeholders.

What you would bring

• A bachelor or master degree in international relations, defence or strategic studies, political science, emergency management or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least five years in military exercise planning, collective training or defence transformation.
• Familiarity with alliance exercise planning processes and their governing documents.
• Proven ability to draft professional planning documents, reports and campaign plans.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• Experience coordinating with multinational or interagency partners.
• Fluent professional English, spoken and written.

This is a long engagement that renews year on year, not a short project.