Requirements Mgr (Interop Stnd Implement Profiles)

NATO; Norfolk (CT); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

NATO seeks a staff officer to champion interoperability standards and profiles, coordinating with the Federated Interoperability Branch and NCIA. The role focuses on data standards, policy development, and program management to deliver interoperable capabilities across the alliance.

The incumbent will engage with senior leadership, manage parts of the annual programme, and contribute to digital transformation efforts while ensuring security clearances and compliance with NATO regulations.

Qualifications

• University degree with 2 years related experience, or higher secondary with 4 years post-related experience.
• 4–7 years in digital interoperability technologies and practices.
• Broad knowledge of digital systems in a defence environment.

Responsibilities

• Represent HQ SACT in NATO policy committees and liaise with NATO bodies.
• Develop and finalize interoperability policies and data standards.
• Lead and coordinate interoperability projects and budget activities.
• Support programme management and stakeholder engagement to advance interoperability objectives.

Skills

Interoperability concepts

Stakeholder engagement

Policy development

Strategic representation

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Advanced vocational training with 4+ years experience

Job description

Post Context

ACT contributes to preserving the peace, security and territorial integrity of Alliance member states by leading, at Strategic Command level, Warfare Development required to enhance NATO's posture, military structures, forces, capabilities and doctrines.

The Capability Development Directorate (CAPDEV) comprises two Divisions-Requirements and Capabilities. The Directorate supports SACT in his Capabilities Requirement Authority (CRA) role. It is responsible for a holistic through lifecycle Capability Development approach that infuses innovation and transformative efforts that are an integral part of the Warfare Development. This includes responsibilities for elicitation, development, capture and collection, quality review, traceability and visibility of capability requirements.

The Federated Interoperability Branch supports and enables the delivery of coherent and interoperable capabilities by developing and verifying the associated capability specifications in order to ensure Day Zero interoperability of people, processes, and technologies.

The incumbent staff officer provides specialist expertise with direct responsibility for championing the implementation and use of agreed interoperability standards and profiles in to meet required capabilities. Additionally, the incumbent staff officer contributes to the development, coordination and configuration management of NATO's interoperability profiles addressing the context for current and projected use of interoperability standards in NATO. Investigate and coordinate DOTMLPF (Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership, Personnel, Facilities) Gap analysis in the context of Federated Mission Networking (FMN). Project Management: as directed by the Interoperability Standardization Programme Manager the incumbent will manage aspects of the annual programme of work with the NCIA.

Principal Duties:

• Digital Standardization
  • Strategic Representation: Represent HQ SACT in NATO Policy Committees, driving the command's priorities and contributing directly to the committees' programmes of work. It includes the Interoperability Profile Capability Team under NATO's Digital Policy Committee, addressing information exchange requirements, specifically focusing on the implementation of data and other digital interoperability standards. Liaise and work with other NATO bodies such as the NATO Standardization Office (NSO).
  • Policy and Standards Development: Contribute to multinational teams of subject matter experts to develop and finalize interoperability policies, plans, and standards essential for achieving the Alliance's digital interoperability objectives. Contribute to the development of data standards, including development of core and common data standards and development of approaches to the harmonization of cross-Community of Interest (COI) data standards for broader data and information sharing.
• Exploration and Outreach
  • Interoperability Exploration Events: Contribute to, and in some cases lead, key aspects of the section's core exploration events (e.g., TIDE Sprint, TIDE Hackathons).
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Actively engage with a broad spectrum of NATO interoperability stakeholders to build consensus and advance HQ SACT's strategic goals.
  • Management & Execution:
  • Support HQ SACT's programme of work for digital interoperability by ensuring business relationships between HQ SACT and the NCIA Agency or other contractors; and by managing parts of the programme and projects as directed by the Programme Manager.
  • Strategic Communications: Contribute to a communications strategy to effectively convey the vision, mission, and achievements of both the Digital Interoperability Policy Section and the Federated Interoperability Branch to diverse internal and external audiences.
  • Support the divisional budget activities by contributing to the annual budget planning, development, execution and review processes as they relate to interoperability standardization.

Essential Qualifications / Experience:

• University Degree and 2 years function related experience, or Higher Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 4 years post related experience.
• 4-7 years of practical experience (depending on educational background/degree) in digital interoperability-related technologies and practices.
• Broad and sound technical knowledge and experience of digital systems and services as they are applied to the defence environment.

Language:

English - SLP 3333 - (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing)

Desirable Qualifications / Experience:

• General knowledge of the organization and structure of NATO.
• Experience in Digital Transformation & Technology Events.
• Experience in leveraging Artificial Intelligence.
• Experience in Project Management.

Attributes/Competencies:

Personal Attributes:

• Self-starter and ability to excel in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Ability to work in team environments (both as a contributor and a leader).
• Experience interacting/briefing with/to senior leadership at the A5/OF-5 Officers level.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.

Managerial Responsibilities:

• Although the incumbent is not expected to directly manage any HQ staff, he/she will be required to organize teams and their work and activities, being able to influence the work strategy and the expected results.

Professional Contacts:

• Have professional contact with others to solicit and exchange information.

Contribution To Objectives:

• Contribute directly to the implementation of data and interoperability standards in new or enhanced information systems services in order to help ensure unambiguous data exchanges supporting decision making and improving Alliance interoperability and capability development in a networked environment.
• Contribute to the interoperability of NATO common-funded projects by maintaining and providing, through the NISP, a list of standards and profiles to be considered at the outset of the projects and through their life-cycle.

Security Clearance

The successful applicant will be required to apply for and receive a NATO SECRET Security Clearance prior to final confirmation of contract and commencement of employment.

Contract

Serving NATO International Civilian staff will be offered a contract in accordance with the NATO Civilian Personnel Regulations. Newly recruited staff will be offered a three year definite duration contract.

Notes for Candidates

The HQ SACT web site gives full details on the eligibility criteria and application processes to be adopted by all candidates. However, candidates should particularly note:

Please answer each of the pre-screening questions completely in English. Expressions such as: please see attached CV, please see annex, please see enclosed document, etc are not acceptable; this is a cause of immediate rejection of the application.

Particular attention should be given to Education and Experience section of your application form, which should be populated with details of your career to date and educational achievements and certifications as they relate to your application.

The candidature of NATO redundant staff at grade G15 will be considered with priority.

NATO will not accept any phase of the recruitment and selection prepared, in whole or in part, by means of generative artificial-intelligence (AI) tools, including and without limitation to chatbots, such as Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (Chat GPT), or other language generating tools. NATO reserves the right to screen applications to identify the use of such tools. All applications prepared, in whole or in part, by means of such generative or creative AI applications may be rejected without further consideration at NATO's sole discretion, and NATO reserves the right to take further steps in such cases as appropriate.

NATO is committed to diversity and inclusion, and strives to provide equal access to employment, advancement and retention, independent of gender, age, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or belief, cultural background, sexual orientation, and disability. NATO welcomes applications of nationals from all member Nations, and strongly encourages women to apply.

This vacancy will close on 09 November 2026 @ 17:59hrs (EDT)/11:59hrs (CEST).