Staff Assistant (Movements)

Our Requirement:

Title: Staff Assistant (Movements)

NATO International Civilian Grade: 10

Duty location: Wesel Germany

Closing date for applications: 16 August 2026

Our organisation:

NATO Signal Battalion operates maintains and sustains Deployable Communication Information Systems (DCIS) to enable command and control (C2) in support of deployed NATO Headquarters and entities during Alliance operations missions and exercises. The Command Group provides and sustains command and control capabilities in terms of support coordination management administrative service and specialists advice to communication and information systems (CIS) in order to meet the CIS units mission. The S4 Section is responsible for the overall preparation and execution of logistic plans movements and policies for the NSB and subordinate units. The Movement and Transportation Cell is responsible for the planning and enablement of all movements related to exercises missions and operations. The incumbent is responsible for the planning and support of multi-modal movements for NATO Signal Battalions elements.

The main duties of Staff Assistant (Movements) are to:

The successful candidate has the following qualifications / experience:

English good NATO Standard Language Proficiency 3322

(Listening Speaking Reading and Writing) in accordance with NATO standard agreement (STANAG) 6001 - NOTE: The work both oral and written in this post and in this Headquarters as a whole is conducted mainly in English

Secondary education AND completed vocational training in relevant field/subject.

Demonstrated experience performing logistics in an operational environment.

Professional experience in planning and coordinating movement and transportation activities.

Experience developing policies procedures plans and/or orders.

Desirable qualifications / experience are:

ü Working experience in a multinational/joint environment.

ü Experience in Dangerous Goods handling.

ü Experience operating logistic software tools.

ü ADR RID IMDG & IATA Certificates for Dangerous Goods Handling.

ü Valid drivers license.

ü Basic knowledge ofGerman language.

ü Completion of relevant courses / trainings.

Personal Attributes:

ü Good interpersonal and communication skills able to communicate on all levels

ü Able to work without supervision and under minimal guidance.

ü Very good problem solving skills.

ü Ability to work in a team

Thesuccessfullyselected candidate must be able to obtain andmaintaina security clearance andis required topass a medical examination before an employment contract offerisreleased. The medical examination will take place with our medical consultant. Itisrequiredtodetermineif the recommended candidate is fit to perform the duties and is deployable to NATOs areas of operation.

Duedate for receipt of applications: Sunday 16 August 2026 23:59.

Candidateshave toapply electronically in NATOTalentAcquisitionProgram:

be aware that aSelection Board willonlyassess the information provided in the job submission form including the answers to the pre-screening questions and description of your work experiences. Your answersmustbe comprehensive and stand alone; do not rely on attached documents foressential information(Attachments are supporting documents and should not be referred to in the job submission). For example if a pre-selection question asks you to justify how you meet the minimum experience requirement youmustexplicitly detail in the answer boxhowyour experience directly aligns with or exceeds the stated requirement. Simplystatingyou meet the requirement is insufficient; provide concrete examples and quantifiable details.These experiences should also be included in the description of your work experiences.

Only candidates meeting ALLessential required qualifications will be considered and be assessed in competition with other candidates.

Please note that 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 toidentifythe use of such tools. All applications prepared in whole or in partby means ofsuch generative or creative AI applications may be rejected without further consideration at NATOs sole discretion and NATO reserves the right to take further steps in such cases asappropriate.