Technology Analyst — Emerging and Disruptive Technologies Assessment for NATO with security clearance

WLG; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 79,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

NATO is seeking a qualified analyst for its innovation branch to catalog, assess and advise on emerging technologies with potential military use.

The role involves identifying new technologies, evaluating adoption opportunities in realistic environments, educating staff, and feeding the science and technology programme for strategic foresight and defence planning. Fluency in professional English is required and relocation to the United States is provided.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in a relevant field as listed.
• At least two years acquiring, assembling and interpreting research and technology information.
• Knowledge of national science and technology sources.
• Experience judging how future technology applies in a military environment.
• Ability to work analytically on technology documentation and build practical adoption examples.
• Comfortable with office tooling and open-source research.
• Fluent professional English.

Responsibilities

• Identifying new emerging technologies and cataloguing the existing ones.
• Assessing their implications and adoption opportunities on a continuing basis.
• Promoting experimentation with technology-based solutions in realistic environments.
• Feeding the science and technology programme of work and the foresight and defence planning strands it supports.
• Identifying capability shortfalls that adoption would close, from the planning products and the operational lessons.
• Educating staff on the opportunities and the risks.
• Running the knowledge base that shows the current state of adoption.
• Working as part of the innovation branch under multi-domain force development.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Open-source research

Office tools

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, ICT, engineering or related discipline

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 needs sustained analytical capacity on emerging and disruptive technologies. This role provides it — cataloguing, assessing and advising, inside the innovation branch.
What You Would Be Doing

• Identifying new emerging technologies and cataloguing the existing ones.
• Assessing their implications and adoption opportunities on a continuing basis.
• Promoting experimentation with technology-based solutions in realistic environments.
• Feeding the science and technology programme of work and the foresight and defence planning strands it supports.
• Identifying capability shortfalls that adoption would close, from the planning products and the operational lessons.
• Educating staff on the opportunities and the risks.
• Running the knowledge base that shows the current state of adoption.
• Working as part of the innovation branch under multi-domain force development.
  

What you would bring

• A bachelor degree from a recognised university in computer science, information and communication technology, engineering or a related discipline.
• At least two years acquiring, assembling and interpreting research and technology information.
• Knowledge of national science and technology sources.
• Experience judging how future technology applies in a military environment.
• The ability to work analytically on technology documentation and build practical adoption examples.
• Comfortable with office tooling and open-source research.
• Fluent professional English.
  

This is a long engagement that renews year on year, not a short project.