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

Wlgroup; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Wlgroup in Norfolk, VA seeks an experienced professional to join a multinational defence exercise program. You will carry warfare development priorities into the exercise enterprise and support governance, synchronization, and strategic alignment across the effort.

You will participate in planning conferences, develop campaign plans, identify capability gaps, and coordinate with partners to produce after-action reviews and actionable recommendations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or master degree in international relations, defence or strategic studies, or equivalent experience.
• At least five years in military exercise planning, collective training or defence transformation.
• Familiarity with alliance exercise planning processes and governing documents.
• Proven ability to draft planning documents, reports and campaign plans.
• Fluent professional English, spoken and written.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.

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

Governance

Stakeholder coordination

Document drafting

Project management

Multinational coordination

English language

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in IR/Defence/Strategic Studies

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.