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

WLG; Henegouwen; On-site; EUR 104,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

WLG relocation to Norfolk, Virginia for a senior international partnerships role, with NATO-5 visa assistance. You will coordinate activities across the partnerships branch, craft briefings for senior leaders, and ensure policy and procedures support defence collaborations.

This long-term engagement requires a postgraduate degree, experience in international security or defence, fluent English, and travel up to 30 days per year.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree in international relations, security, development or military studies.
• Experience in foreign affairs, international security or defence.
• Experience within alliance structures or defence ministries.
• Working knowledge of partnerships, security sector reform, or defence planning.
• Experience briefing senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Contributing to 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 policies behind military partnerships.
• Identifying, coordinating and tracking activities, programmes of work, exercises, trainings.
• Maintaining corporate memory: information and knowledge management, lessons identified, document traceability and quality assurance.
• Ensuring partnership activities and information sharing follow 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.

Skills

International relations

International security

Defense

Policy coordination

Briefing senior leaders

Fluent English

Education

Postgraduate degree in international relations or security studies

Job description

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.