Capability Officer — Counter-Uncrewed Systems and Counter-IED for NATO with security clearance

WLG; Brunssum; On-site; EUR 78,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

WLG is seeking an experienced professional to support the development of capability products within an alliance governance framework. You will assist the programme director and project coordinator in programme management across agencies and participating nations, contributing to counter-drone initiatives and capability integration.

The role requires a master’s degree or equivalent, five years of leadership briefing experience, and substantial operational expertise in counter-uncrewed systems or

Qualifications

• Requires master’s level education or equivalent military college qualification.
• Five years of briefing senior leaders and decision-makers.
• Five years operational knowledge of counter-uncrewed systems or counter-IED at various levels.
• Two of the last ten years in programme or project management in a complex environment.
• Two of the last ten years in a multinational defence organisation.

Responsibilities

• Support development of capability products under the alliance governance model.
• Assist programme director and project coordinator in programme management with agencies and nations.
• Support projects including layered counter-drone initiatives.
• Capture and trace capability requirements at all levels.
• Develop and review doctrinal policies, directives and concepts of operation.

Skills

Fluent English

Programme management

Requirements analysis

Leadership briefing

Education

Master's degree or equivalent in engineering / information systems / aeronautics / operations research

Job description

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

A multinational defence organisation is building out its counter-uncrewed systems and counter-IED capability. This role supports the programme that delivers it: requirements, doctrine, project coordination and the synchronisation across every line of development.

What You Would Be Doing

• Supporting the development of capability products under the alliance governance model.
• Supporting the programme director and project coordinator in their programme management, including work with agencies and nations.
• Supporting the projects themselves, including the layered counter-drone initiatives.
• Drawing out, capturing, analysing and tracing capability requirements at every level.
• Developing and reviewing the doctrinal corpus — policies, doctrine, directives, concepts of operation.
• Coordinating development and implementation across all lines of development, and proposing courses of action when they conflict.
• Organising and taking part in workshops, seminars and conferences.
• Collaborating with national and international organisations, centres of excellence and academia.
• Maintaining programme status information in the warfare development environment.
• Identifying lessons and best practice and getting them learned.

What you would bring

• A master degree or equivalent military college qualification in engineering, information systems, aeronautics or operations research.
• At least three of the last ten years briefing senior leaders and decision-makers.
• Five years of operational knowledge of counter-uncrewed systems or counter-IED at tactical, operational or strategic level.
• At least two of the last ten years in programme or project management in a complex environment.
• At least two of the last ten years in a multinational defence organisation.
• Fluent professional English.

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