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

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

Résumé du poste

NATO seeks a seasoned professional to support its partnerships branch in a long‑term, renewal‑based engagement. You will coordinate activities, develop briefings, and prepare policy papers for senior leaders, while ensuring security standards and knowledge management across directorates.

The role requires drafting expertise, fluent English, and experience within alliance structures or defence ministries. Travel up to 30 days annually is expected.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree in international relations, security, development or military studies.
• Experience in foreign affairs, international security or defence.
• Experience inside an alliance structure or defence ministry.
• Knowledge of partnerships, security sector reform, defence planning, military cooperation.
• Experience drafting for and briefing senior leaders.
• Fluent professional English.

Responsabilités

• Coordinate activities and outputs of the partnerships branch.
• Serve as central contact for partnership strands across directorates.
• Develop briefings, papers, speaking notes and reports for senior leadership.
• Develop and review policies and procedures behind military partnerships.
• Identify, coordinate and track activities and programmes of work.
• Maintain information management, lessons learned, document traceability and quality assurance.
• Ensure partnership activities and information sharing follow security policy.
• Prepare and execute engagements with senior leaders; background papers, engagement strategies, read-ahead material.
• Travel to meetings, conferences, workshops and exercises up to ~30 days a year.

Connaissances

Coordination

Briefings

Policy development

Stakeholder engagement

Knowledge management

Formation

Postgraduate degree in International Relations

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.