Organizational Development and Learning Specialist

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO UN EU and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services specialised aerospace and defence sales delivery and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting

Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is NATOs leading agent for change: driving facilitating and advocating the continuous improvement of Alliance capabilities to maintain and enhance the military relevance and effectiveness of the Alliance. The main objectives of ACT are: providing appropriate support to NATO missions and operations; leading NATO military transformation; and improving relationships interaction and practical cooperation with partners nations and international organisations. ACT therefore leads Alliance concept development capability development training and lessonslearned initiatives and provides unfettered military support to policy development within NATO.

The program

Capability Development & Management Support (CDMS)

DCOS Capability Development (CAPDEV) acts as the Supreme Allied Commander Transformations Director for guidance direction and coordination of the activities and resources of the Capability Development Directorate.

The Requirements Division will execute all tasks and activities needed to support requirements management for NATO capabilities

The Capability Requirements (CR) Branch will develop the Capability Requirements Brief and recommended courses of action to resolve issues through the life cycle management of requirements using matrixed crossfunctional projectspecific Requirements Management teams.

The Requirements Forward Branch (Mons) is responsible for conducting requirements development and management representation and engagementrelated functions in Europe.

The Capability Division coordinates the development of capabilities from capability planning through acceptance and then disposal with management entities NATO Headquarters staff and the NATO Governance Structure

The Capability Forward Branch (Mons) coordinates with ACO NCIA NSPA NATO HQ territorial Host Nations and NATO Centres of Excellence (COEs) to support the development of capabilities.

Strategic Plans and Policy (SPP) supports Allied Command Transformation in formalizing military advice to shape future military strategy political guidance and other policy documents supporting NATOs strategic objectives.

Role Responsibilities

• Define personas to demonstrate understanding of the ACT target audience(s) and to test pathways.
• Collect and consolidate business information requirements for staff shaped to levels of experience and cultural awareness.
• Develop learning pathways / maturity models that consider staff competencies (knowledge skills and experience) for crossorganizational culture NATOspecific topics and in defined functional areas.
• Collaborate with ACT culture and functional communities to design specific pathways.
  • Research functional or skills standards where functions have reasonable civilian or military equivalents with accessible information.
  • Run workshops to elicit consolidate and / or validate functional requirements.
  • Consolidate job descriptions to identify stated functional levels.
• Communicate pathways via maturity models and / or competency roadmaps using standard MS Office tools and / or central intranet resources.
• Define and support onboarding activities for new staff up to 12 months from arrival to embed organizational culture.
• Develop learning games roleplay and other experiential learning events.
• Collect consolidate and act on feedback received across competency development activities.
• Perform additional tasks as required by the COTR related to culture assessment and formation or staff training development.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Minimum of 3 years in the last 6 in the field of organizational development and learning or corporate skills development in complex knowledgebased organizations.
• Experience shaping experiential learning and skills development for multinational audiences especially for high and low powerdistance audiences.
• Experience in shaping staff onboarding and communication of business information

Education

• Certification including a degree or other advanced professional qualification in Organizational Development instructional design and education or a related field.

Language Proficiency

• Advanced Proficiency in English.

Working Location

• Norfolk VA USA

Working Policy

• OnSite

Contract Duration

• June 2025 December 2026

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance