Partnerships Officer — Capability Development and Key Leader Engagement for NATO with security clearance

WLG; Konak; Sur place; TRY 4 382 000 - 6 329 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

WLG is seeking an experienced partnerships professional to support NATO-related engagements in Norfolk, Virginia. Relocation is offered with NATO-5 visa for you and your family.

This is a full employment contract with our delivery partner, not a contractor. You will coordinate across directorates, draft briefings and policy papers for senior leaders, and help shape the policies behind military partnerships.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree in international relations or related field.
• Experience in foreign affairs, security cooperation or defence.
• Experience in alliance structures or defence ministries.
• Working knowledge of partnerships, defence planning or security capacity building.
• Experience drafting briefs for senior leaders.
• Fluent professional English.

Responsabilités

• Coordinate the partnerships branch activities, outputs and rhythms.
• Serve as central contact for partnership strands across directorates.
• Develop briefings, speaking notes and decision-support products for senior leadership.
• Develop and review policies, directives, concepts and procedures behind military partnerships.
• Identify, coordinate and track activities, programmes, exercises, training and engagements.
• Maintain corporate memory including information management and traceability.
• Ensure partnership activities follow security policy and information sharing rules.
• Prepare and execute key leader engagements with background papers and talking points.
• Travel to meetings, conferences and exercises up to ~30 days a year.

Connaissances

Fluent English

Stakeholder coordination

Policy development

Briefing senior leaders

Project coordination

Knowledge management

Formation

Postgraduate degree in international relations

Description du poste

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.