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

Work Life Group; Henegouwen; Sur place; EUR 78 000 - 122 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

NATO-5 visa

Relocation support

Résumé du poste

Wlgroup is seeking a seasoned Partnerships Coordinator to support a multinational defence programmes office. The role focuses on coordinating the partnerships branch, preparing high-level briefings and engagement materials, and ensuring strict information security and knowledge management practices.

Travel up to ~30 days per year and relocation to the United States (Norfolk, VA) with NATO-5 visa support. The ideal candidate holds a postgraduate degree in related fields and demonstrates

Qualifications

• 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 defence or security, or a national defence ministry.
• Working knowledge of partnerships, security sector reform, defence capacity building, defence planning or military cooperation.
• Demonstrated experience drafting for and briefing senior leaders.
• Fluent professional English.

Responsabilités

• 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 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.

Connaissances

International relations

Alliance experience

Policy briefing

English fluency

Security knowledge

Formation

Postgraduate degree in IR/security development or 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.