Capability Officer — Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance for NATO with security clearance

Wlgroup; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 96,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Wlgroup is seeking a senior analytical professional to support the development of capability products within a multinational defence programme. The role requires coordinating with agencies and nations and providing methodological and analytical expertise for intelligence fusion and cross-domain integration.

Responsibilities include capturing requirements, organizing workshops, and maintaining programme status information while collaborating with international partners.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or equivalent military college qualification in engineering, information systems, aeronautics or operations research.
• Experience briefing senior leaders and decision-makers.
• Extensive operational experience in intelligence fusion and integration (multi-source, multi-domain).
• Significant programme or project management experience in complex environments.
• Experience in a multinational defence organisation.
• Fluent professional English.

Responsibilities

• Supports development of capability products under alliance governance.
• Supports programme director and project coordinators with agencies and nations.
• Provides methodological and analytical expertise for holistic capability development.
• Supports projects, including intelligence line of effort.
• Captures and traces requirements at all levels.
• Develops and reviews doctrinal corpus.
• Coordinates across development lines and proposes actions when conflicts arise.
• Organises and participates in workshops, seminars and conferences.
• Collaborates with national/international organisations and academia.
• Maintains programme status information and supports capability validation.

Skills

Briefing senior leaders

Intelligence fusion & integration

Programme/project management

Multinational defence experience

Fluent English

Education

Master's degree or equivalent military college in engineering, information systems, aeronautics or operations research

Job description

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

A multinational defence organisation is developing its joint intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and awareness capability. This role supports that programme with the methodological and analytical work behind it.

What you would be doing

• Supporting the development of capability products under the alliance governance model.
• Supporting the programme director and project coordinators, including work with agencies and nations.
• Providing methodological and analytical expertise for the holistic approach to this capability area.
• Supporting the projects themselves, including the intelligence line of effort.
• Drawing out, capturing, analysing and tracing requirements at every level.
• Developing and reviewing the doctrinal corpus.
• Coordinating across all lines of development and proposing courses of action where 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 and supporting capability validation.

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 experience inside the last twelve in intelligence fusion and integration, particularly multi-source and multi-domain.
• 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.