Strategic Defence Partnerships & Policy Lead

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

Job summary

NATO in Norfolk, Virginia, relocation supported with a NATO-5 visa, coordinates multinational defence partnerships and prepares policy and senior engagements. You will develop briefings, track activities, and ensure information sharing with security policy adherence.

You will travel up to about thirty days per year. A postgraduate degree and fluent English are required for this long-term engagement.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Contribute to partnerships branch outputs and coordination rhythm.
• Act as central contact for partnership strands across directorates.
• Develop briefings, reports, and decision-support products for senior leadership.
• Develop and review policies, directives, concepts, and procedures for military partnerships.
• Identify, coordinate and track activities, programmes of work, exercises and engagements.
• Maintain corporate memory, information management, and QA.
• Ensure activities and information sharing follow security policy.
• Prepare and execute key leader engagements with background papers and talking points.
• Travel to meetings and events up to ~30 days per year.

Skills

Briefings for senior leaders

Stakeholder coordination

Policy development

Security and defence knowledge

English proficiency

Education

Postgraduate degree in international relations or security 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.