Partnerships Officer — Capability Development and Key Leader Engagement for NATO with security clearance

WLG; Brussel; Sur place; EUR 87 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Relocation opportunity to the United States (Norfolk, Virginia) with NATO-5 visa provided. The role supports a multinational defence organisation's partnerships branch end to end, handling coordination, staff work, policy and senior engagements.

You will contribute to activities and outputs, act as a central contact across directorates, and develop briefings, reports and decision-support materials for senior leadership. Travel up to 30 days yearly is expected.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree required in IR, security, development or military studies.
• Experience in foreign affairs or defence.
• Experience in alliance structures or defence ministries.
• Working knowledge of partnerships and security capacity building.
• Proven experience drafting for senior leaders.
• Fluent professional English.

Responsabilités

• Coordinate activities, outputs and rhythms of the partnerships branch.
• Act as central point of contact for partnership work strands across directorates.
• Develop briefings, point papers, speaking notes, reports and decision-support products for senior leadership.
• Develop and review policies, directives, concepts and procedures for military partnerships.
• Identify, coordinate and track activities, programmes, exercises and engagements.
• Maintain corporate memory through information management and QA.
• Ensure partnership activities and information sharing follow security policy.
• Prepare and execute key leader engagements—background papers, engagement strategies, read-ahead material.
• Travel to meetings, conferences, workshops and exercises up to ~30 days per year.

Connaissances

Foreign affairs experience

Policy briefing

Senior leadership briefing

Security and defence knowledge

English fluency

Travel readiness

Formation

Postgraduate degree in international relations / security / military studies

Description du poste

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

A multinational defence organisation runs a wide programme of partnerships with nations outside the alliance. This role supports that branch end to end — coordination, staff work, policy and the preparation behind senior engagements.

What You Would Be Doing

• Contributing to the activities, outputs and coordination rhythm of the partnerships branch.
• Acting as a central point of contact for partnership work strands across directorates.
• Developing briefings, point papers, speaking notes, reports and decision-support products for senior leadership.
• Developing and reviewing the policies, directives, concepts and procedures behind military partnerships.
• Identifying, coordinating and tracking activities, programmes of work, exercises, experiments, training and engagements.
• Maintaining corporate memory: information and knowledge management, lessons identified, document traceability and quality assurance.
• Ensuring partnership activities and information sharing follow the applicable security policy.
• Preparing and executing key leader engagements — background papers, engagement strategies, read-ahead material, talking points.
• Travelling to meetings, conferences, workshops and exercises up to about thirty days a year.

What you would bring

• A postgraduate degree in international relations, international security, international development or military studies.
• Experience in foreign affairs, international security, international cooperation or defence.
• Experience inside an alliance structure, another international organisation in a defence or security post, or a national defence ministry.
• Working knowledge of at least one of: partnerships, security sector reform, defence and security capacity building, defence planning, military cooperation.
• Demonstrated experience drafting for and briefing senior leaders — flag officers or their civilian equivalents.
• Fluent professional English.

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