Strategic Defence Partnerships Officer – Global Engagements

Wlgroup; 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

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.