Staff Assistant (Security Accreditation)

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 Resources and Management (RM) Directorate acts on behalf of SACT on all internal management and resource-related issues. It monitors the coherency of ACT plans to ensure that ACT remains an effective and efficient organization and improves continuously.

The ACT Office of Security has staff responsibility to execute, provide and coordinate security services to the headquarters, its subordinate commands, and to the NATO community at large, operating at all levels of command to ensure the security of its personnel, assets, and resources.

The Staff Assistant (Security Accreditation) in the ACT Office of Security provides specialist support to CIS security for ACT.

Principal Duties:

• Providing security accreditation support for ACT (HQ and subcommands) and NATO CIS Security Accreditation Board. Performing status review of software Change Requests (CRs), coordinating the resolution of questions or clarifications with author and HQ personnel and tracking CRs until completion/rejection.
• Participating in HQ SACT sponsored Security Accreditation Boards.
• Providing security status briefs for HQ CIS Security Accreditation Boards, User Groups and, the Change Advisory Board and the Configuration Control Boards as required.
• Supporting the NATO CIS/Cyber security education and awareness programme
• Conducting technical investigations in support of security programme development, policy enforcement, and CIS violation investigations
• Conduction and oversight of security testing for NATO and SACT CIS
• Support and assist during investigations of security incidents as needed.

Essential Qualifications:

• 3-5 Years of experience in software configuration management and information security compliance
• 3-5 Years of experience in security accreditation and regulation compliance, including conducting audits, assessing risks, and implementing compliance programs
• 3-5 Years of experience in systems testing
• In-depth knowledge of computer forensic tools and techniques
• 2-3 years of experience in complex CIS design and implementation

Language:

English - SLP 3322 - (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing)

Desirable Qualifications / Experience:

• Knowledge of the organization and structure of NATO.
• NATO Security Course (MPG-MP-2699) provided by NATO - School Oberammergau (NSO)
• NATO CIS Security Officer (CCC-IA-26972) provided by NATO Communications and Information Academy (NCI Academy)

Attributes/Competencies:

Personal Attributes:

• Capable of working harmoniously in a multi-national environment, as a HQ SACT representative and presenting ACT positions in a firm but tactful manner.
• She/He must be self-motivated and is expected to work unsupervised in the performance of assigned duties.
• She/He must also display a good general knowledge of systems engineering and be able to apply that knowledge in novel and imaginative ways

Professional Contacts:

• Must be able to liaise both internally and externally with military and civilian personnel od all grades and ranks.

Contribution To Objectives:

• The post provides the technical knowledge and guidance to ensure that HQ SACTS’s IT infrastructure remains secure. She/He takes a prominent role in ensuring the quality of CIS products developed by the engineering teams delivering new products in support of ACT’s mission.

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 G12 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 14 April 2025 @ 17:59hrs (EDT)/11:59hrs (CEST).