Job description
- Working Location: Norfolk, VA, USA
- Security Clearance: NATO Secret/National Secret
- Language: High proficiency level in English language
DESCRIPTION:
Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is NATO’s 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 Warfare Development through undertaking concept development, capability development, training and lessons learned initiatives and provides unfettered military advice to policy development within NATO. Deputy Chief of Staff Joint Force Development (DCOS JFD) is an essential directorate dealing with the warfare development agenda.
Warfare Development is required to enhance NATO’s posture, military structures, forces, capabilities and doctrines. The DCOS JFD Directorate consists of six HQ SACT-based Branches that, together with the Joint Warfare Centre (JWC), Joint Force Training Centre (JFTC) and Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre (JALLC), have responsibility for NATO Force Development activities. The aim is to improve interoperability amongst the NATO Command Structure (NCS), NATO Force Structure (NFS) as well as interoperable Partners’ forces allocated to NATO, and enhance capabilities, to undertake the full spectrum of Alliance missions. The Modelling & Simulation (M&S) and Training Technologies Branch provides M&S and Training Technology support to the NCS in the areas of operational planning, capability development, defence planning, strategic and operational exercising and wargaming, utilizing Subject Matter Experts in M&S, education & training technologies, instructional systems design and information systems.
EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION:
Essential Qualifications/Experience:
- University Degree in computer science, engineering, or management and 5 years function related experience, or Higher Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training with 8 years function related experience
- 5 years in the last 10 in the field of M&S management to include initiation, planning, and execution of M&S projects at the capability level
- Demonstrated experience working with academia, industry and MoD/ DoD in NATO M&S capability development
- Demonstrate 3 years in the last 10 experience in briefing senior leaders/decision makers
- Demonstrate 3 years in the last 10 working with M&S for wargaming, experimentation, or strategic studies
- Demonstrated experience working at the NATO Branch Head level for M&S or MoD/ DoD
- Working knowledge of Capability Architectures
- Nationality from one of the NATO nations
- Demonstrable 2 years’ experience in the last 10 in international military environments
- Demonstrable 3 years’ experience in the last 10 in M&S programs in the defence sector. In particular, experience in programme and project boards and development of decision support briefings
- Demonstrable 5 years’ experience in the last 10 in M&S supporting the design, development, planning and reporting of wargames, exercises, experiments, seminars, simulations, workshops, or other similar events
- Demonstrable 2 years’ experience in the last 10 in supporting the collection and analysis of M&S user and capability requirements
- Demonstrable experience in using simulation to support the development of analytical studies at the operational and strategic level
- Working knowledge of project management techniques and demonstrated success in using them to deliver capabilities. In particular, experience in initiation and management of programmes and projects, development of exception and routine reports, and management of work breakdown packages
- Knowledge of the NCS and NFS
- Knowledge of the M&S entities within NATO eg HQ SACT, JWC, JFTC, M&S COE, NCIA, etc.
- Practical experience with PC office automation products, including the use of internet for information research
DUTIES/ROLE:
- Conduct work to identify, scope and define NATO needs that may be satisfied with M&S, on strategic and operational planning, functional planning (logistics, CIS, etc.), testing and visualization of new concepts, operational experimentation and war gamming events, definition of NATO capabilities including enabling the evaluation of architectures and comparison of alternative solutions and test of new NATO capabilities against its user requirements. Prepare decision support reports including briefings, operational requirements documents, user documents, and associated capability documentation
- Work with NATO and national organizations to streamline M&S efforts
- Support the development of the Next Generation of M&S for NATO through project management and serving as a SME for the programme
- Provide technical advice on M&S related documents, activities and prototypes
- Perform development of methodology, design, execution, post-processing, and socialization of M&S in support of analytical wargames. The wargames may be in support of a larger analytical study for which the contractor will need to work with others such as analysts and experimenters
- Conduct work with NATO institutions, allied and partner governmental organizations when duly authorized, as well as academia and industry from NATO nations to research and identify potential M&S solutions to NATO needs
- Conduct any other duties as tasked
About BREVCO SERVICES:
We are a globally-oriented company providing services to International, Governmental and Defence organizations in the Aerospace and Defence industry. We are headquartered in Brussels – Belgium, London – United Kingdom and Tampa, Florida – United States. Our satellite offices throughout the European continent, enable us to have a global reach with a local touch, supporting our clients’ projects with security-cleared experts in various setups. We aspire to be a global leader in providing expertise and support to our clients from the Aerospace and Defence industry. Our mission is to connect the security professionals with the project where they are most needed. In this industry, excellence is then minimum standard.
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