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

WLG; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NATO-5 visa relocation

Job summary

WLG in Norfolk, VA, is offering a long-term engagement in military exercise planning, supporting multi-domain objectives and governance across the exercise enterprise. Relocation to the United States is provided with NATO-5 visa support.

Applicants should have a bachelor or master in international relations, defence or strategic studies, or equivalent experience, and at least five years in exercise planning or defence transformation, with fluent English and experience coordinating with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's in international relations, defence or strategic studies, political science, emergency management or related fields.
• Minimum five years in military exercise planning or defence transformation.
• Familiarity with alliance exercise planning processes and governing documents.
• Proven ability to draft 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Strategic planning

Multinational coordination

Documentation & reporting

Project management

Education

Bachelor or Master in International Relations/Defence or Strategic Studies

Equivalent experience

Job description

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

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.