Staff Officer (Cyber Coalition Exercise)

NATO•United States of America, Norfolk, MA

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 integrates innovation and transformative efforts. The Capabilities Division synchronizes horizontal efforts across capabilities. The Cyberspace Branch provides expertise for developing and improving Cyberspace capabilities, including Cyber Defence and cryptographic infrastructure. Within this branch, the incumbent's primary role is to support the Cyber Coalition Exercise Director and staff in all aspects of organizing the Cyber Coalition exercise. This involves defining the exercise's scope, developing scenarios and storylines, identifying experiments, documenting these in the exercise specification, and acting as a point of contact for concept and scenario development. The role also includes attending meetings to ensure strategic elements are implemented, supporting the development of participation, audience, and partnerships, and assisting with exercise and training objectives. The Staff Officer will coordinate the development of exercise specifications, plans, and reports, provide guidance on future exercise developments, and ensure the integration of lessons learned. Representation of the Exercise Director on relevant committees and task forces is also a key responsibility.

Requirements

Master’s degree or similar national academic qualification in computer science, network security, cyber-security or any related field. Can be substituted with Bachelor Degree and 5 years of experience in relevant field and/or verifiable long time experience in the subject.
Post-grade education in CIS security and cyberdefence disciplines, as Certified Information Systems security Professional (CISSP), GIAC Security Expert or ISACA Certified information security Manager (CISM).
Six years' experience (depending on educational background/degrees) in the organization of military exercises, preferably at operational and/or strategic level including exercise content development, execution and evaluation. Only hands-on experience in exercise development, execution and evaluation will be considered. Participation in exercises out of these functions will not be considered as valid experience.
Four years' experience in participation in cyber exercises, preferably operational and military ones (cyber C2, situational awareness, cyber ISR or offensive cyberspace operations), rather than technical (red-on-blue) ones.
Six years’ Cyber and/or CIS experience.
English – SLP 3333 - (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing)

Nice To Haves

General knowledge of the organization and structure of NATO.
Demonstrable understanding of cyberspace operations.

Responsibilities

Identify level of ambition for annual CC, based on V&S implementation.
Identify and describe the most likely scenarios and storylines, to propose to the Exercise Group.
Identify and describe the most likely experiments and concept validation activities, to propose to the experimentation team.
Document the above in the annual draft exercise specification.
Act as the PoC for Cyber Coalition concept, scenario, storyline and implementation development activities.
Attend meetings and ensure that above strategic elements are properly implemented into the exercise.
Support the Exercise Director in developing the proper participation, audience and partnerships.
Provide support to Cyber Coalition Exercise Director for development of exercise objectives and training objectives.
Coordinate development of exercise specifications, exercise plan and final exercise report.
Provide guidance to the Exercise Group on organizational aspects of future exercise developments.
Ensure LL requests, planning, creation, collection, staffing and handling in accordance with the NATO LL Process is an integrated part of the Post Exercise Discussion (PXD).
Represent the Exercise Director on appropriate Cyber Coalition related committees, task force, panels and working groups as directed.