Exercise Planning Analyst — Warfare Development and Lessons Learned for NATO with security clearance

Wlgroup; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 360,000 - 492,000; Full time

Job summary

Wlgroup seeks a senior specialist to lead and coordinate international military exercise planning, ensuring alignment with warfare development priorities across the exercise enterprise.

You will plan conferences, develop campaign concepts, and draft after-action reports while coordinating with multinational partners. A bachelor or master in a related field and five years of relevant experience are required, with fluent English abilities. This is a long engagement that renews annually.

Qualifications

• Five+ years in military exercise planning or defence transformation.
• Experience drafting professional planning documents and reports.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• Fluent professional English, both written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning conferences and coordinate across the exercise enterprise.
• Develop, refine and document exercise campaign plans and concepts.
• Identify capability gaps and assess emerging capabilities using exercises.
• Support governance, synchronization and strategic alignment across the enterprise.
• Coordinate with multinational or interagency partners and external stakeholders.
• Draft formal reports, recommendations and after-action insights.

Skills

Exercise planning

Governance & coordination

Multinational coordination

Education

Intl relations/defence

Job description

Relocation to the United States - Norfolk, Virginia. We provide the NATO-5 visa.

A multinational defence organisation runs a large exercise programme, and wants it aligned with where warfare development is going. This role does the joining up: the planning conferences, the campaign documents, and the after-action work that follows.

What you would be doing

• Carrying warfare development priorities and multi-domain objectives into the exercise enterprise.
• Supporting governance, synchronisation and strategic alignment across that enterprise.
• Taking part 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 the training innovation lines of effort - realism, new technology, harder scenarios.
• Supporting after-action review and lessons-learned processes, and drafting the formal reports and recommendations.
• Contributing to the rolling programmes of work.
• Coordinating with the other commands, partners and external stakeholders.

What you would bring

• A bachelor or master degree in international relations, defence or strategic studies, political science, emergency management or a 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 their governing documents.
• Proven ability to draft professional planning documents, reports and campaign plans.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• Experience coordinating with multinational or interagency partners.
• Fluent professional English, spoken and written.

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