Technology Analyst — Emerging and Disruptive Technologies Assessment for NATO with security clearance

Work Life Group; Norfolk (VA); Vor Ort; USD 80.000 - 110.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Work Life Group seeks an analyst to help catalog and assess emerging technologies for defence applications in the innovation branch. You will identify new technologies, assess adoption opportunities, and promote experimentation in realistic environments.

You will feed the science and technology programme and support foresight and defence planning strands, education of staff, and knowledge-base maintenance for adoption states within a multi-domain force development context.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor degree from a recognised university in computer science, information and communication technology, engineering or a related discipline.
• At least two years acquiring, assembling and interpreting research and technology information.
• Knowledge of national science and technology sources.
• Experience judging how future technology applies in a military environment.
• Ability to work analytically on technology documentation and build practical adoption examples.
• Comfortable with office tooling and open-source research.
• Fluent professional English.

Aufgaben

• Identifying new emerging technologies and cataloguing the existing ones.
• Assessing their implications and adoption opportunities on a continuing basis.
• Promoting experimentation with technology-based solutions in realistic environments.
• Feeding the science and technology programme of work and the foresight and defence planning strands it supports.
• Identifying capability shortfalls that adoption would close, from the planning products and the operational lessons.
• Educating staff on the opportunities and the risks.
• Running the knowledge base that shows the current state of adoption.
• Working as part of the innovation branch under multi-domain force development.

Kenntnisse

Analytical thinking

Research interpretation

English proficiency

Open-source research

Ausbildung

Bachelor degree in CS/ICT/Engineering

Tools

Open-source tools

Jobbeschreibung

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

A multinational defence organisation needs sustained analytical capacity on emerging and disruptive technologies. This role provides it — cataloguing, assessing and advising, inside the innovation branch.

What you would be doing

• Identifying new emerging technologies and cataloguing the existing ones.
• Assessing their implications and adoption opportunities on a continuing basis.
• Promoting experimentation with technology-based solutions in realistic environments.
• Feeding the science and technology programme of work and the foresight and defence planning strands it supports.
• Identifying capability shortfalls that adoption would close, from the planning products and the operational lessons.
• Educating staff on the opportunities and the risks.
• Running the knowledge base that shows the current state of adoption.
• Working as part of the innovation branch under multi-domain force development.

What you would bring

• A bachelor degree from a recognised university in computer science, information and communication technology, engineering or a related discipline.
• At least two years acquiring, assembling and interpreting research and technology information.
• Knowledge of national science and technology sources.
• Experience judging how future technology applies in a military environment.
• The ability to work analytically on technology documentation and build practical adoption examples.
• Comfortable with office tooling and open-source research.
• Fluent professional English.

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