Strategic Defence Partnerships Officer – Global Engagements

Work Life Group; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 78,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

NATO-5 Partner Organisation in The Hague region seeks an experienced professional to manage end-to-end coordination of international partnerships, policy and senior engagements. The role involves travel and close liaison with directorates to advance defence collaborations.

You will develop briefings, strategy papers and decision-support materials for senior leaders, ensure security policy compliance, and maintain organisational memory through rigorous documentation.

Qualifications

• 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 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.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate activities and outputs of the partnerships branch.
• Act as central contact for partnership work strands across directorates.
• Develop briefings, speaking notes, reports and decision-support products for senior leadership.
• Develop and review policies, directives, concepts and procedures behind military partnerships.
• Identify, coordinate and track activities, programmes of work, exercises, and engagements.
• Maintain corporate memory: information and knowledge management, lessons identified, document traceability and quality assurance.
• Ensure partnership activities and information sharing follow the applicable security policy.
• Prepare and execute 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.

Skills

Fluent English

Foreign affairs experience

Defence experience

Policy briefing

Alliance experience

Education

Postgraduate degree in international relations, international security, international development or military studies

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.