Major Projects Delivery Senior Officer
🔍 Belgium
1. SUMMARY
The Defence Investment (DI) Division is responsible for facilitating the development and adoption of cutting-edge, innovative and interoperable capabilities, critical to ensuring the Alliance’s ability to undertake the full spectrum of missions and operations. Key lines of effort include:
- leading NATO’s policy and engagements in the aviation domain;
- pursuing interoperability through prioritised standardisation efforts, developing with Allies new approaches to operational challenges, supported by a commitment to operational experimentation and innovation;
- leading NATO engagement with Defence Industry and working to ensure the resilience and robustness of the transatlantic Defence Industrial Base;
- maintaining the Alliance’s technological edge through exploring and driving adoption of emerging and disruptive technologies, with a particular focus on autonomous systems;
- facilitating multinational cooperation in capability development through a series of specific initiatives tackling critical capability requirements;
- understanding, adapting to, and pro-actively addressing climate change;
- informing and responding to the Alliance’s evolving capability needs through NATO Defence Planning;
- providing oversight to NATO Agencies involved in capability development and delivery (in particular NATO Communication and Information Agency and NATO Support and Procurement Agency);
- working with a range of key stakeholders within NATO including the Strategic Commands and externally with NATO Partners and relevant international and regional organisations including the EU, as well as with industry and academia.
The Armament and Aerospace Capabilities Directorate (A&A Cap) supports consensus decision making at NATO Headquarters on a wide range of joint, land, air and maritime capabilities required for the full range of the Alliance’s missions. The Directorate supports NATO Defence Planning activities and related capability initiatives. To that end, it provides capability-related advice to NATO committees and the Organisation’s senior management. Specific responsibilities include policy and capability development, support and oversight in the areas of Integrated Air and Missile Defence, Aerospace, Aviation, Joint Intelligence, Reconnaissance, Surveillance (JISR), Space as well as multinational armaments cooperation and projects.
The incumbent’s main responsibility is to assist the Director of Armament and Aerospace Capabilities in overseeing and supporting the realisation initiatives for major capability programmes across land, maritime, air and space. This includes the support and oversight of the establishment and execution of capability programmes, related governance arrangements, coordination and alignment with other NATO initiatives and stakeholders, and development of required policies and agreements.
2. QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL
The incumbent must:
DESIRABLE
The following would be considered an advantage:
- further educational degree;
- operational C4ISR experience;
- experience related to managing multinational programs;
- NATO committee support experience and/or experience in negotiating in a multinational environment;
- knowledge of NATO civilian and military defence organisations;
- professional certification or training in Project/Program Management (Eg. PRINCE2).
3. MAIN ACCOUNTABILITIES
Expertise Development
Apply C4ISR and complex capability development and delivery expertise into relevant policy development and stakeholder engagement to support timely realisation of major programmes, including in the space domain.
Project Management
Work with key members of the relevant NATO entities in order to help set the necessary political and military conditions to enable effective project/programme management to take place concerning realisation of capabilities, the direction of projects, identifying key risks, issues as well as possible solutions.
Stakeholder Management
Work with relevant stakeholders to ensure major programmes are developed, delivered and sustained as efficiently as possible. Negotiate with stakeholders to achieve success, as well as Allied representatives both in NATO HQ and Capitals.
Policy Development
Provide policy inputs regarding the NATO C4ISR major programmes when requested and ensure that the multiple NATO policies and their implementation which affect NATO’s C4ISR capabilities, including the ongoing implementation of NATO’s Overarching Space Policy, are coherent with one another.
Knowledge Management
Exchange knowledge and information with colleagues on topics affecting the major programmes with the CNAD and other relevant committees.
Financial Management
Where required, collaborate with colleagues in the NATO Office of Resources
(NOR), Nations, and the respective NATO agencies to determine and verify the correct use of financial resources relating to major programmes.
Representation of the Organisation
Contribute to NATO representation by developing and communicating information supportive of NATO’s interests. This may involve collaboration with NATO’s Public Diplomacy Division (PDD).
Perform any other related duty as assigned.
4. INTERRELATIONSHIPS
The incumbent reports to the Director of Aerospace & Armaments Directorate. They liaise with other groups and agencies both internal and external to NATO that work in fields related to those for which they are responsible for. These entities will include (non-exhaustive): relevant IS Divisions, the NATO Communications and Information Agency; the NATO Support and Procurement Agency; NATO’s International Military Staff, NATO’s two Strategic Commands (ACO and ACT), and as necessary, regional and service commands.
Direct reports: N/a
Indirect reports: N/a
5. COMPETENCIES
The incumbent must demonstrate:
- Achievement: Creates own measures of excellence and improves performance.
- Change Leadership: Expresses vision for change;
- Impact and Influence: Uses indirect influence;
- Initiative: Is decisive in a time-sensitive situation;
- Organisational Awareness: Understands organisational politics;
- Teamwork: Solicits inputs and encourages others.
7. USEFUL INFORMATION REGARDING APPLICATION AND RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Please note that we can only accept applications from nationals of NATO member countries. Applications must be submitted using e-recruitment system, as applicable:
- For NATO civilian staff members only: please apply via the internal recruitment portal (link);
- For all other applications: www.nato.int/recruitment
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Appointment will be subject to receipt of a security clearance (provided by the national Authorities of the selected candidate), approval of the candidate’s medical file by the NATO Medical Adviser, verification of your study(ies) and work experience, and the successful completion of the accreditation and notification process by the relevant authorities.
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