S&T Staff Officer - Innovation & Foresight Lead

NATO; Norfolk (CT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NATO seeks a Staff Officer (Science & Technology) to support SACT in strategy, policy and capability development. You will contribute to IST planning, S&T research alignment and cross‑border collaboration, interfacing with STO panels and national partners.

The role emphasizes technical analysis, foresight, and program delivery within an international civilian staff environment. A three-year definite duration contract is typical.

Qualifications

• Personal integrity & sense of responsibility.
• Professionalism and ability to structure, organize and prioritize work.
• Ability to take initiative and to work independently.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Must be able to capture complex problems, break down thoughts and ideas to their individual elements, recognise connections between these elements, and provide verifiable descriptions of implications.
• Ability to work under time pressure and deal with multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. Ability to work harmoniously and communicate strongly and coordinate in the diverse international environment - horizontally and vertically.
• Must be able to mediate amongst stakeholders and resolve conflicting points of view to achieve solutions.
• Must be a strong negotiator able to construct common learning processes within a group.

Responsibilities

• Influence and exploit NATO Science and Technology Organization's (STO) projects that address identified capability shortfalls.
• Contribute to the delivery a sustained technology watch function in support of ACT foresight and capability development processes, scanning, identifying, monitoring, analysing, assessing and proposing for exploitation those S&T research areas that can potentially be leveraged by NATO and the Allied Nations, with a particular focus on disruptive technologies, game changing solutions, potential innovative, cost-effective and interoperable opportunities to address the identified capability shortfalls.
• Contribute to the production and delivery of S&T advice that informs the strategic foresight analysis efforts (SFA, FFAO), NATO defence planning (e.g., NDPP step 2) and subsequent capability and force development efforts, including capability requirements formulation, concept development and experimentation and Analysis of Alternatives (AoA).
• Ensure and coordinate, with the NATO Science and Technology Organisation, the implementation of the ACT-STO Structured Partnership and annual Implementation Plan.
• Represent ACT before the STO Panels and Group and other relevant national and international entities (at the appropriate level) discussing S&T and innovation matters.
• Identify capability shortfalls by analyzing the NDPP products, the operational Lessons Learned and in coordination with other ACT staff.
• Contribute to the planning and execution of the ACT S&T Program of Work.
• Educate HQ SACT staff on the opportunities available from the NATO Science and Technology Organization's Panels and Group.
• Organize the development of necessary web-based applications for managing and exchanging S&T information between ACT, NATO and national S&T bodies.
• Execute tasks and duties as directed by the Section Head Science and Technology or his superiors with regards to the projects, activities, and outputs related to the Branch core tasks in the field of Science and Technology.

Skills

Personal integrity & sense of责任

Education

University Degree in management information systems, accounting, economics, finance, business administration, public administration, operations research, project management or related discipline

Two years' experience in the acquisition, assembly and interpretation of research & technology information

Tools

PC office automation

Internet research

Job description

NATO seeks a Staff Officer (Science & Technology) to support SACT in strategy, policy and capability development. You will contribute to IST planning, S&T research alignment and cross‑border collaboration, interfacing with STO panels and national partners.

The role emphasizes technical analysis, foresight, and program delivery within an international civilian staff environment. A three-year definite duration contract is typical.