Capability Officer — Electromagnetic Operations and Electromagnetic Warfare for NATO with security clearance

WLG; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Defence Organisation is seeking a professional to support the development of electromagnetic capability products and coordinate across international partners. The role involves gathering and tracing requirements, developing doctrine, and organizing workshops to advance the programme across multiple nations.

The candidate should have a master’s-level qualification, strong English, and at least five years in EM operations with two years in programme management within complex, multinational defence

Qualifications

• Master's degree or equivalent qualification in engineering, information systems, computer science or project management.
• Experience briefing senior leaders and decision-makers in the last 10 years.
• Five years of operational knowledge of electromagnetic operations or warfare at tactical or joint level.
• Two of the last ten years in programme or project management in a complex environment.
• Two of the last ten years in a multinational defence organisation.
• Fluent professional English.

Responsibilities

• Support development of capability products under alliance governance.
• Assist programme director and project coordinators including work with agencies and nations.
• Capture and trace requirements at every level.
• Develop and review doctrinal corpus — policies, doctrine, directives, concepts of operation.
• Coordinate across all lines of development and propose courses of action where they conflict.
• Organise workshops, seminars and conferences.
• Collaborate with national and international organisations, centres of excellence and academia.
• Maintain programme status information and support capability validation.
• Identify lessons and best practice and get them learned.

Skills

Brief senior leaders

EM operations knowledge

Education

Master's degree

Military college qualification

Job description

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

A multinational defence organisation is rebuilding its electromagnetic operations and warfare capability. This role supports the programme that delivers it, from requirements through to doctrine and validation.

What You Would Be Doing

• Supporting the development of capability products in this area under the alliance governance model.
• Supporting the programme director and project coordinators, including work with agencies and nations.
• Drawing out, capturing, analysing and tracing requirements at every level.
• Developing and reviewing the doctrinal corpus — policies, doctrine, directives, concepts of operation.
• Coordinating across all lines of development and proposing courses of action where they conflict.
• Organising and taking part in workshops, seminars and conferences.
• Collaborating with national and international organisations, centres of excellence and academia.
• Maintaining programme status information and supporting capability validation.
• Identifying lessons and best practice and getting them learned.

What you would bring

• A master degree or equivalent military college qualification in engineering, information systems, computer science or project management.
• At least three of the last ten years briefing senior leaders and decision-makers.
• Five years of operational knowledge of electromagnetic operations or warfare at tactical or joint level.
• At least two of the last ten years in programme or project management in a complex environment.
• At least two of the last ten years in a multinational defence organisation.
• Fluent professional English.

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