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

Wlgroup; Brussel Hoofdstad; Sur place; EUR 78 000 - 113 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Wlgroup is seeking a knowledgeable professional to support a NATO-related partnerships branch in Norfolk, VA. You will coordinate activities, serve as the primary liaison across directorates, and craft briefings, reports, and policy documents for senior leaders.

The role requires developing engagement strategies and maintaining information management, with travel up to thirty days a year. This is a relocation-heavy, long-term engagement with a NATO-5 visa provision; fluency in English and

Qualifications

• This role requires a postgraduate degree in IR or related field and experience in international security or defence.
• Experience in alliance structures or defence ministries is preferred.
• Proven ability to draft for and brief senior leaders, with strong English proficiency.

Responsabilités

• Contribute to activities and coordination rhythm of the partnerships branch.
• Serve as a central point of contact for partnership strands across directorates.
• Develop briefings, point papers, speaking notes, reports and decision-support products for senior leadership.
• Develop and review policies, directives and procedures behind military partnerships.
• Identify, coordinate and track activities, programmes of work, exercises, training and engagements.
• Maintain corporate memory: information management, lessons learned and document traceability.
• Ensure partnership activities comply with security policy and information sharing rules.
• Prepare and execute key leader engagements with background papers and talking points.
• Travel to meetings, conferences and workshops up to ~30 days/year.

Connaissances

Policy coordination

Briefings & reports

Senior leadership briefing

Security policy knowledge

Partnerships knowledge

Formation

Postgraduate degree in international relations

Experience in foreign affairs or international security

Experience in alliance/defense organisations

English fluent

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.