Staff Officer (Joint Fires)
🔍 Belgium
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- 241508 Requisition #
Post Context/Post Summary
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) provides an integrated Strategic Effects framework, employing a multi-domain and multi-region focus to create a 360-degree approach, with the flexibility to enable, upon direction, a seamless transition from Baseline Activities and Current Operations (BACO) up to the Maximum Level of Effort (MLE). SHAPE supports the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) in fulfilling his terms of reference, as directed by the North Atlantic Council.
The Operations (OPS) Directorate delivers comprehensive situational awareness, enabling the identification of crises, and supports estimates, response options and planning. In monitoring NATO’s current operations, it enables SACEUR’s direction and guidance to be disseminated, ensuring coherent Joint Effects, whilst providing comprehensive assessments to NATO HQ.
The Joint Effects Branch will coordinate and integrate disciplines that are integral to Joint Effects, employing a full spectrum approach to enable NATO to meet Strategic and Operational Targeting requirements.
Following the declaration of SHAPE as a Warfighting HQ, Joint Fires is identified as a priority for SACEUR and the reinforcement with Joint Fires in defence is the Alliance’s quickest and most decisive way to defend and reverse force disadvantages. Additional qualified Joint Fires Workforce in JTE will enable NATO, if required, to successfully execute the Regional Plans with decisive and synchronised Joint Fires and is therefore critical for day zero readiness.
Principal Duties
The incumbent's duties are:
1. Responsible for Joint Fires and Joint Targeting integration in NATO and Allied exercises as directed by Branch head.
2. Support the implementation of the updated Joint Fires Roadmap in the ACO.
3. Coordinate across Joint Fires SMEs, Subordinate ACO Command POCs, and J2/J3 Staffs to ensure robust, realistic, and clear Joint Fires Training and Exercise objectives, and subsequent input into Exercise scripting and delivery.
4. Provide directions for the planning of exercises in coordination with J7.
5. Develop and draft Joint Fires and Targeting content within ANNEX II (Targeting Directive) in support of Strategic CONOPS planning and development.
Special Requirements and Additional Duties
The incumbent may be required to undertake deployments in support of military operations and exercises, and/or TDY assignments, both within and without NATO boundaries up to 180 days. The employee may be required to perform a similar range of duties elsewhere within the organization at the same grade without there being any change to the contract.
Essential Qualifications
A. Professional/Experience
1. Working background on Joint Fires.
2. Background Joint Targeting.
3. Experience in organizing Joint Fires or Joint Targeting events
B. Education/Training
University Degree and 2 years post-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.
C. Language
English - SLP 3333 - (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing)
Desirable Qualifications
A. Professional Experience
1. Recent Joint Operations experience.
2. Previous staff experience at strategic or operational command level in a Joint Fires Position.
B. Education/Training
1. Joint Air Operations School ITA – Joint Fires Course NATO Module or equivalent.
2. NATO Collateral Damage Estimation (CDE) Course provided by NATO - School Oberammergau (NSO) or equivalent.
3. NATO Joint Intermediate Target Development Course provided by NATO - School Oberammergau (NSO) or equivalent.
4. NATO Battle Damage Assessment Course provided by NATO - School Oberammergau (NSO) or equivalent.
5. NATO Joint Targeting Staff (NJTS) Course provided by NATO - School Oberammergau (NSO) or equivalent.
Attributes/Competencies
Personal Attributes: The candidate must be able to have a broad vision of complex subjects and reach a balance between many different points of view. The candidate should have the capacity to adapt to fast changing situations and integrate new inputs being provided regularly by its leadership.
Professional Contacts: The candidate will have to deal with a large community of Joint Fires and Targeting Experts in the ACO. Furthermore, regular discussions with NATO political structure will require diplomacy and extended professional network.
Contribution to Objectives: This position may have in impact on the whole Alliance and especially on the ACO. Processes and solutions proposed may be implemented in doctrine and courses and become the reference if NATO gets involved in a conflict.
REMARKS:
Duration of contract: (Pending approval) The successful candidate will fill this post as a Project Related NATO International Civilian (PLN) with a three-year definite duration contract within the NATO 2030 Agenda. On expiry of this term the PLN will be deleted or absorbed into the ceiling pending approval or will exceptionally be considered for extension.
The salary will be the basic entry-level monthly salary defined by the NATO Grade of the post, which may be augmented by allowances based on the selected staff member’s eligibility, and which is subject to the withholding of approximately 20% for pension and medical insurance contributions.
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.
Building integrity is a key element of NATO’s core tasks. As an employer, NATO values commitment to the principles of integrity, transparency, and accountability in accordance with international norms and practices established for the defence and related security sector. Selected candidates are expected to be role models of integrity, and to promote good governance through ongoing efforts in their work.
Applicants who prove to be competent for the post but who are not successful in this competition may be offered an appointment in another post of a similar nature, which might become vacant in the near future, albeit at the same or lower grade, provided they meet the necessary requirements.
We believe that all people are capable of great things. Because of this, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the criteria listed within this job description.
HOW TO APPLY FOR A NATO CIVILIAN POST AT SHAPE:
Applications are to be submitted using NATO Talent Acquisition Platform (NTAP) (https://nato.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobsearch.ftl?lang-en). Applications submitted by other means (e.g. mail, e-mail, fax, etc) are not accepted.
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Shortlisted candidates will be requested to provide original documentary evidence and a set of copies supporting statements in their applications. Appointment is subject to obtaining a NS security clearance and a medical certificate.
Remarks:
A) Only nationals from the 32 NATO member states can apply for vacancies at SHAPE.
B) Applications are automatically acknowledged within one working day after submission. In the absence of an acknowledgement please make sure the submission process is completed, or, re-submit the application.
C) Qualified redundant staff of the same grade interested in this post should inform this office, via their HR/Personnel Office by not later than vacancy’s closing date.
D) 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.