Senior Defense Exercise Planning & Strategy Analyst

WLG; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 88,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Organisational skills

Project management

Multinational coordination

Professional English

Education

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

Job description

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.