Exercise Planning Analyst — Warfare Development and Lessons Learned for NATO with security clearance

WLG; Den Haag; Presencial; EUR 88.000 - 123.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

WLG seeks an experienced professional to join a multinational defence organisation in Norfolk, VA. This long-term, full-time role focuses on aligning exercise planning with warfare development and coordinating across diverse partners.

You'll join planning conferences, draft campaign documents, and contribute to after-action reviews and lessons learned. The position requires a bachelor or master in relevant fields, at least five years in exercise planning, and fluency in English.

Formación

• Bachelor or Master degree in international relations, defence or strategic studies, political science, emergency management or related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least five years in military exercise planning, collective training or defence transformation.
• Familiarity with alliance exercise planning processes and governing documents.
• Proven ability to draft planning documents, reports and campaign plans.

Responsabilidades

• Carrying warfare development priorities and multi-domain objectives into the exercise enterprise.
• Supporting governance, synchronisation and strategic alignment across that enterprise.
• Participating in planning conferences, workshops and coordination events.
• Developing, refining and documenting exercise campaign plans and concepts.
• Using exercises to identify capability gaps, refine concepts and assess emerging capabilities.
• Integrating training innovation lines of effort — realism, new technology, harder scenarios.
• Supporting after-action review and lessons-learned processes and drafting reports.
• Coordinating with commands, partners and external stakeholders.

Conocimientos

Organisational skills

Project management

Multinational coordination

Professional English

Educación

Bachelor or Master in international relations/defence/strategic studies/political science/emergency management

Descripción del empleo

Relocation to the United States - Norfolk, Virginia. We provide the NATO-5 visa for you and your family.

This post is a full employment contract with our delivery partner, with the benefits that go with it - not a contractor or B2B arrangement. Agreeing to be employed is the first condition of the role.

A multinational defence organisation runs a large exercise programme, and wants it aligned with where warfare development is going. This role does the joining up: the planning conferences, the campaign documents, and the after-action work that follows.

What You Would Be Doing

• Carrying warfare development priorities and multi-domain objectives into the exercise enterprise.


• Supporting governance, synchronisation and strategic alignment across that enterprise.


• Taking part in planning conferences, workshops and coordination events.


• Developing, refining and documenting exercise campaign plans and concepts.


• Using exercises to identify capability gaps, refine concepts and assess emerging capabilities.


• Integrating the training innovation lines of effort - realism, new technology, harder scenarios.


• Supporting after-action review and lessons-learned processes, and drafting the formal reports and recommendations.


• Contributing to the rolling programmes of work.


• Coordinating with the other commands, partners and external stakeholders.

What you would bring

• A bachelor or master degree in international relations, defence or strategic studies, political science, emergency management or a related field, or equivalent experience.


• At least five years in military exercise planning, collective training or defence transformation.


• Familiarity with alliance exercise planning processes and their governing documents.


• Proven ability to draft professional planning documents, reports and campaign plans.


• Strong organisational and project management skills.


• Experience coordinating with multinational or interagency partners.


• Fluent professional English, spoken and written.

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