Staff Officer (Wargaming – Force and Threat Analysis & Modelling)
🔍 Belgium
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- 241320 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 Support Directorate is responsible for directing, monitoring and coordinating the implementation of Integrated Resource Management (IRM) activities and staff functions at all levels of command across Allied Command Operations (ACO).
The Resource Management Division (REM) is responsible to SACEUR through COS SHAPE for the development and support required for the employment and monitoring of the ACO Strategic Management (ASM) System, including the ACO Strategic Management Plan (ASMP).
The post is located in the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), Support Directorate, Resource Management (REM) Division, ACO Innovation Management (AIM) Branch, Wargaming (WG) Section. The WG section acts as ACO focal point for all wargaming related issues. Specifically, it collects, prioritizes and validates wargame requirements from users, drafts the annual Wargaming Programme of Work and develops tailored Wargames for operational users, including data collection and analysis. It operates and maintains the ACO wargaming network, the SHAPE wargaming facilities, the wargaming workshop and the wargames archive. It acts as requirement owner for the capability development programmes associated with wargaming. It also represents ACO at wargame related events and fosters a culture of wargaming throughout the Command. It advises ACO Command Groups and working-level staff on wargame related matters. WG is custodian of ACO doctrine, policy and directives for wargaming. It supports other ACO Innovation Management areas and work strands, such as concept development, operational experimentation, digital transformation and open innovation and is supported by modelling and simulation and operational analysis as required.
Principal Duties
The incumbent's duties are:
1. Supports the design and execution of WG.
2. Collects, analyses and models the list of friendly and opposing forces.
3. Contributes to creating combat models and adjudication tables.
4. Engages stakeholders to collect data for models and validates them.
5. Contributes to testing and validating of WG designs.
6. Contributes to the execution of WGs.
7. Contributes to WG data collection and analysis.
8. Acts as point of contact for all matters related to capability development in the context of wargaming (operational requirement team leader).
9. Supports ACT WG effort as directed.
10. Provides WG advice to ACO subordinate Commands as directed.
11. Liaises with WG stakeholders, including WG service providers, as required.
12. Supports the definition of WG policy and directives.
13. Supports coordinating and managing the delivery of WG and operational experimentation products in support of users.
14. Contributes advising and assisting users preparing and executing WG products.
15. Contributes to representing ACO at wargaming events.
16. Supports other AIM Branch areas as required.
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. Proven experience in designing and modelling forces and effects during wargames, simulations, exercises, and operations.
2. Knowledge of Joint operations and doctrine.
3. Proven knowledge of conceptual aspects of strategy and tactics for the employment of forces.
4. Ability to prioritize tasks and allocate resources in a dynamic context and capacity of delivering under pressure and short timelines.
5. Proven experience in researching operational data (forces, actions, effects) and statistics.
B. Education/Training
University Degree in business administration, engineering, economics, public administration, operations research, business process engineering or related discipline and 2 years post related experience, or Higher Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training in that discipline leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 4 years post related.
C. Language
English - SLP 3333 - (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing)
Desirable Qualifications
A. Professional Experience
1. Thorough knowledge of NATO, Russian forces and Terror/Insurgent Organizations and their equipment.
2. Detailed knowledge of NATO, Russian and Terror/Insurgents Organizations operations/doctrine.
3. Knowledge of military history of combat operations from 1939 to present day.
4. Professional experience in international/multinational organizations with proven responsibility to prioritize tasks and allocate resources in a dynamic context and capacity of delivering under pressure and short timelines.
B. Education/Training
1. NATO Practitioner Wargaming Course or equivalent.
Attributes/Competencies
Personal Attributes: Personal qualities of tact, judgment, adaptability, coupled with motivational and listening skills. A sense of diplomacy and propriety in order to work harmoniously with colleagues and other staff, both civilian and military. Able to work effectively to support the team activities. Possess the ability to assess the impact of a wide variety of NATO and national capability developments towards meeting NATO’s overall required capability. Ability to use initiative and good judgment to propose optimum options in materializing effectively the capability delivery.
Professional Contacts: This post requires to establish and maintain professional contacts with relevant wargaming stakeholders across the NATO enterprise, in particular within SHAPE, subordinates ACO Headquarters, ACT and NATO Headquarters, and within Allied Nations.
Contribution to Objectives: The incumbent supports the delivery of ACO’s warfighting functions by progressing ACO’s wargaming needs as a key enabler of the multi-domain operation fight.
REMARKS:
Duration of contract: (Pending approval) The successful candidate will fill this post as a Project Linked 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:
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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.