Project Coord (Comm Services-SATCOM)

NATO

About The Position

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 Capability Development Directorate (CAPDEV) comprises two Divisions—Requirements and Capabilities. The Directorate supports SACT in his Capabilities Requirement Authority (CRA) role. It is responsible for a holistic through lifecycle Capability Development approach that infuses innovation and transformative efforts that are an integral part of the Warfare Development. This includes responsibilities for elicitation, development, capture and collection, quality review, traceability and visibility of capability requirements. The Capabilities Division coordinates the development of capabilities from capability planning through acceptance and then disposal with the management entities, NATO Headquarters staff and the NATO Governance Structure. This entails synchronizing horizontally across capabilities to achieve coherent efforts and outcomes. The Communications Information Services (CIS) Branch leads the Core Services and Communication Services areas including IT Service Management and Deployable Communications Information System. Furthermore, the Branch leads the development of the NATO Enterprise Architecture for future C3 Information systems in accordance with approved NATO policy and links these architectures to the NDPP, the NSIP, and interoperability standards. This post will act as a Project Coordinator for SATCOM Programme.

Requirements

University Degree in managerment information systems, accounting, economics, finance, business administration, public administration, operations research, project management 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.
At least 4 years practical experience (participation and/or advice) in projects on design and/or implementation of Communications and Information Services.
At least 4 years of managing CIS (specialists) staff.
At least 2 years Project management experience (Prince II preferred).
Language: English – SLP 3333 - (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing)

Nice To Haves

Experience working in a NATO military commands, A/G/M/J6 or equivalent area.
Recent operational experience in (JOINT) CIS planning of ex / missions.
A broad knowledge of NATO CIS capabilities.
PRINCE2 Foundation and/or Practitioner or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the development of Communications and Information Services (CIS):
Supports the elicitation of requirements as needed by the Requirements Division.
Enables capability programme plans and ensures the delivery of programme outcomes by assessing throughout the life cycle the cost, scope, schedule, risk and performance.
Ensures coordination and synchronization with all SMEs supporting warfare development at the management level, especially with the users and the host nations.
Plans and enables acceptance with the support of relevant branches and in coordination with user and host nations.
Provide programme and project expertise for ACT Programme of Work (POW) activities in CIS, Cyber, COI Enabling, Information Management and infrastructure and COI Services.
In conjunction with the CIS Operating, Service Provisioning and Implementation Authorities, serve as a member of selected Integrated Coordination groups like the Capability Management Function and NATO HQ coordination groups (e.g. Integrated Project Steering Groups).
Provides for Enterprise Architecture and capability architecture development.
On transformational aspect:
Support to the NATO Defence Planning Process (NDPP) Steps 2-5.
Provide CIS service definition within the NATO structure; development of Mid-Term Plans (MTP); execution of NATO Defence Planning Processes (NDPP).
Support Capability Development Plans.
Implement visions and concepts developed and approved by the NATO Military Committee.
Coordinate the integration of national solutions with those produced in NATO.
Engage with NATO, the Nations, Partners, Industry, Academia, IOs and NGOs through the Framework for Cooperative Interaction (FFCI) mechanism.
Sponsor R&D, Experimentation and POW to facilitate CIS capability architecture development.
Support technical requirements identification and validation, and solution concept development.
Coordination of C3 policies and directives for implementation in ACT and Division.