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

Wlgroup; Konak; On-site; TRY 4,869,000 - 7,303,000; Full time

Job summary

Wlgroup is seeking a seasoned defence planning professional for a long‑term engagement in Norfolk, Virginia. The role coordinates exercise priorities with multi‑domain objectives, supports governance, and aligns planning documents with enterprise strategies.

You will develop and document exercise campaign plans, identify capability gaps through scenarios, and contribute to after‑action reviews. Requires a bachelor’s or master’s in a related field, at least five years in exercise planning, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor or master's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• At least five years in military exercise planning or defence transformation.
• Familiarity with alliance exercise planning processes.
• Proven ability to draft planning documents and campaign plans.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• Experience coordinating with multinational partners.
• Fluent professional English, spoken and written.

Responsibilities

• Carry warfare development priorities into the exercise enterprise.
• Support governance, synchronisation and strategic alignment.
• Take part in planning conferences and coordination events.
• Develop and refine exercise campaign plans and concepts.
• Use exercises to identify capability gaps and assess emerging capabilities.
• Integrate training innovation lines of effort: realism, new technology, harder scenarios.
• Support after-action review and draft reports and recommendations.
• Coordinate with other commands, partners and external stakeholders.

Skills

Exercise planning

Strategic documentation

Multinational coordination

Fluent English

Project management

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in related field

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.