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

WLG; Brunssum; On-site; EUR 78,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

WLG is seeking a Senior Partnerships Coordinator to support a NATO-defence partnerships programme. The role is full-time, based in Norfolk, United States, with relocation and NATO-5 visa arrangements.

You will develop briefings, manage liaison across directorates, and help shape engagement strategies, with up to 30 travel days per year. The assignment renews annually and requires high-level coordination and policy work.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Coordinate partnerships branch activities and outputs.
• Serve as central contact for partnership strands across directorates.
• Develop briefings, point papers, speaking notes, and reports for senior leadership.
• Develop and review policies and procedures behind military partnerships.
• Identify, coordinate and track activities and engagements.
• Maintain corporate memory and document quality control.
• Ensure information sharing complies with security policy.
• Prepare and execute engagement background papers and talking points.
• Travel to meetings and conferences up to about thirty days a year.

Skills

Experience in foreign affairs

Experience in international security

Experience in defence

Fluent English

Education

Postgraduate degree in international relations or related field

Job description

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 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.