Officer, NATO Industrial Advisory Group (NIAG) and Life Cycle Management
Officer, NATO Industrial Advisory Group (NIAG) and Life Cycle Management
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1. SUMMARY
The Defence Investment (DI) Division is responsible for facilitating the development and adoption of cutting-edge innovative and interoperable capabilities critical to ensuring the Alliances ability to undertake the full spectrum of missions and operations. Key lines of effort include:
- developing and implementing policies and programs to ensure the Alliance can rely on a capable and competitive transatlantic defense industrial base;
- facilitating and promoting multinational cooperation through a series of specific initiatives tackling critical capability requirements;
- leading the development and implementation of projects and major capability programmes in the land maritime air and space domains and in doing so addressing all policy political-military technical and practical aspects;
- leading NATOs policy and engagements in the aviation domain;
- pursuing interoperability through standardization and developing with Allies new approaches to operational challenges supported among others by operational experimentation and innovation;
- maintaining the Alliances technological edge through exploring and driving adoption of emerging and disruptive technologies with a particular focus on autonomous systems;
- understanding adapting to and pro-actively addressing climate changes implications on armaments;
- informing and responding to the Alliances evolving capability needs through the NATO Defence Planning Process (NDPP) implementation;
- providing oversight to NATO Agencies involved in capability development and delivery (in particular NATO Communication and Information Agency and NATO Support and Procurement Agency);
- working with a range of key stakeholders within NATO including the Strategic Commands and externally with NATO Partners and relevant international and regional organisations including the EU as well as with industry and academia.
The Strategy Directorate is responsible for providing overall coherence of capability deliverables through policies plans and links with external stakeholders. The Directorate supports the Conference of National Armaments Directors (CNAD) the senior North Atlantic Council (NAC) body responsible for the promotion of armaments cooperation in the Alliance
Within the Strategy Directorate the Capability Delivery Section (CDS) focuses on the delivery of NATO capabilities in the multinational NATO environment working with external governmental military and industrial stakeholders.
The incumbent is responsible for providing subject matter expertise for bringing the NIAG perspective and contributions to NATO capability delivery effort and for acting as staff focal point on the life cycle approach to armament systems within the Alliance and as appropriate with Partners. In this context the incumbents main responsibility is leading the work of the NIAG the Life Cycle Management Group (LCMG) and their subordinate bodies.
2. QUALIFICATIONS
ESSENTIAL
The incumbent must:
- hold a university degree from an institute of recognised standing in an engineering or technical field or equivalent qualification;
- have at least 6 years of relevant professional experience;
- possess a broad knowledge of military armaments systems/equipment including platforms weapons and associate support equipment;
- have a strong background in development procurement and sustainment of armament systems;
- possess the following minimum levels of NATOs official languages (English/French): V (Advanced) in one; II (Elementary) in the other;
- be flexible to travel and work outside normal office hours.
DESIRABLE
The following would be considered an advantage:
- broad knowledge of armaments planning matters and how they relate to other planning disciplines within the NATO defence planning framework;
- familiarity with NATO civilian and military defence organisations;
- familiarity with the Defence Industry sector.
Policy Development
Provide expert advice support and recommendations in the formulation of NIAG cooperation and life cycle management. Oversee the preparation of specialist documentation dealing with all aspects of
Expertise Development
Draft clear and concise technical submissions reports background briefs and speaking notes in one of the official languages of the Organization. Draft papers in support of the activities of the
Information Management
Assist the Chair of the
Stakeholder Management
Promote co-operation amongst nations in the fields of industry and life cycle management. Liaise extensively with government military and industry personnel representatives of NATO nations. Monitor the activities of other groups involved in related fields and liaise with them on a regular basis.
Representation of the Organization
Serve as Co-ordinating Officer of the
Project Management
Oversee the implementation of annual programme of work of the NIAG and LCMG. Plan and support execution of the NIAG Study Programme. Assess progress made towards meeting Alliance industrial cooperation requirements in the area of capability delivery and in providing agreed documentation to implement life cycle management in NATO armaments programmes. Contribute to the planning and organisation of the NATO Industry Forum.
Knowledge Management
Working with the administrative staff of the
Perform any other related duty as assigned.
4. INTERRELATIONSHIPS
The incumbent reports to the Head CDS and closely cooperates with the Industry Relations Coordinator. The incumbent is responsible for the functioning of the
Direct reports: N/a
Indirect reports: N/a.
5. COMPETENCIES
The incumbent must demonstrate:
- Analytical Thinking: Makes complex plans or analyses;
- Clarity and Accuracy: Checks own work;
- Conceptual Thinking: Applies learned concepts;
- Customer Service Orientation: Takes personal responsibility for correcting problems;
- Impact and Influence: Takes multiple actions to persuade;
- Initiative: Is decisive in a time-sensitive situation;
- Organizational Awareness: Understands organisational climate and culture;
- Teamwork: Solicits inputs and encourages others.
7. USEFUL INFORMATION REGARDING APPLICATION AND RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Please note that we can only accept applications from nationals of NATO member must be submitted using e-recruitment system as applicable:
- For NATO civilian staff members only: please apply via the internal recruitment portal (link);
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More information about the recruitment process and conditions of employment can be found at our website ( will be subject to receipt of asecurity clearance(provided by the national Authorities of the selected candidate) approval of the candidatesmedical fileby the NATO Medical Adviser verification of your study(ies) and work experience and the successful completion of theaccreditationand notification process by the relevant authorities.
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 to identify the use of such tools. All applications prepared in whole or in part by means of such 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 as appropriate.
8. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
NATO is committed to diversity and inclusion and strives to provide equal access to employment advancement and retention independent of gender age nationality ethnic origin religion or belief cultural background sexual orientation and disability. NATO welcomes applications of nationals from all member Nations and strongly encourages women to apply.
NATO is committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible working environment where all candidates living with disabilities can fully participate in the recruitment and selection process. If you require reasonable accommodation please inform us during your selection process.
Candidates will be required to provide documented medical evidence to support their request for accommodation.
Building Integrity is a key element of NATOs core tasks. As an employer NATO values commitment to the principles of integrity transparency and accountability in accordance with international norms and practices established for the defence and related security sector. Selected candidates are expected to be role models of integrity and to promote good governance through ongoing efforts in their work.
Due to the broad interest in NATO and the large number of potential candidates telephone or e-mail enquiries cannot be dealt with.
Applicants who are not successful in this competition may be offered an appointment to another post of a similar nature albeit at the same or a lower grade provided they meet the necessary requirements.
The nature of this position may require the staff member at times to be called upon to travel for work and/or to work outside normal office hours.
The organization offers several work-life policies including Teleworking and Flexible Working arrangements (Flexitime) subject to business requirements.
Please note that the International Staff at NATO Headquarters in Brussels Belgium is a non-smoking environment.
For information about the NATO Single Salary Scale (Grading Allowances etc.) please visit ourwebsite. Detailed data is available under the Salary and Benefits tab.
NATO does not charge any application processing training interviewing testing or other fee in connection with the application or recruitment process. For more info please click here.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
