AFSC Project Coordinator (Enhancements)

NATO • United States of America, Norfolk, MA

11d • Onsite

About The Position

The Capability Development Directorate (CAPDEV) supports SACT in his Capabilities Requirement Authority (CRA) role, focusing on a holistic, through-lifecycle capability development approach that infuses innovation and transformative efforts. The Capabilities Division synchronizes efforts across capabilities to achieve coherent outcomes. The Joint Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance and Joint Effects Branch is responsible for NATO Enterprise and Alliance capability program planning, coordination, and monitoring across all domains. The incumbent is responsible for the coherent and effective execution of projects within the AFSC Programme and other assigned programmes.

Requirements

• University Degree in business administration, engineering, economics, public administration, operations research, business process engineering or related discipline and 2 years function 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 experience.
• Six years' experience as a Programme Manager (full-life cycle management).
• Four years' experience in the development of a data-centric environment in a complex organization.
• Four years' experience in a military capability development assigned role.
• English – SLP 3333 - (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing)
• Must exercise sound thought, judgment, initiative, adaptability and flexibility, particularly when dealing with organizations and agencies in a multi-national and multi-cultural environment.
• Must have tact and diplomacy when dealing with working groups, committees, contractors, and consultants to achieve stated ACT goals and objectives.
• The job relies heavily on the person having great analytical and problem-solving skills to create interoperability architectures and specifications for managing technology complexities in military command and control systems.
• Must have a keen sense of the boundaries of post authority and the direction which superior leadership would adopt in response to an evolving situation.
• Required to persuade and influence senior decision makers who are routinely unfamiliar with interoperability challenges to adopt the most advantageous course of action for NATO and federation.
• Required to present at conferences and respond to unplanned questions in a manner that best represents ACT and NATO.
• Will be required to apply for and receive a NATO SECRET Security Clearance prior to final confirmation of contract and commencement of employment.

Nice To Haves

• Proven success facilitating working groups sessions and survey assessments.
• General knowledge of the organization and structure of NATO.
• Experience with military command and control systems and their use in multinational environments.

Responsibilities

• Project Coordinator (Enhancements) for the Alliance Future Surveillance and Control (AFSC) Programme, and other assigned programmes.
• Guides the efforts of Project Managers and their projects to ensure coherent and effective full-life cycle management for all of the capabilities.
• Converts capability requirements into a capability programme plan.
• Create implementation plans.
• Coordinate with nations and host nations to develop and implement capabilities.
• Coordinate the acceptance of capabilities.
• Coordinate the disposal of obsolete capabilities.
• Provide reports and updates.
• Monitor the implementation and assess Cost, Scope, Schedule, Risk and Performance issues raised by implementation programme and project managers through the full life cycle of the capability.
• Coordinate capability development efforts with JISR, Air C2, Cyber Defence, CAP FWD and CIS branches to ensure that all AFSC functions are covered in a comprehensive and consistent manner.
• Support capability development efforts across ACT for AFSC programme with a special focus on defence planning, requirements development, doctrine, concepts, training, experimentation, interoperability, policy and future technologies.
• Provide inputs to and receives support from the Project Management Office (PMO) in order to make informed programmatic decisions and to support ACT’s overall project management process.
• Coordinate with NCI Agency/Host nation for the effective management of common-funded capability development programs and projects.
• Coordinate with Capability User Authorities across the NATO Command Structure for development and improvement of capabilities.
• Engage with NATO AFSC fora, as well as with relevant NATO, national or multi-national boards, committees and working groups to coordinate capability development efforts.
• Request/coordinate (as appropriate) NATO Centre of Excellence support.
• Supervise development and maintenance of capability architectures for JISR capabilities in close coordination with NATO Enterprise Architecture (EA) and project architecture custodians.
• Provide and coordinate AFSC capability area SME support to other branches, divisions, and directorates as necessary.
• May act as COTR.
• May represent HQ SACT, the JISR branch or the AFSC section on behalf of the section head at workshops, conferences, etc.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager