Staff Assistant (Strategic Planning/Coordination)

Post Context

ACT contributes to preserving the peace, security and territorial integrity of Alliance member states by leading, at Strategic Command level, Warfare Development required to enhance NATO’s posture, military structures, forces, capabilities and doctrines.

The Capability Development Directorate (CAPDEV) comprises two Divisions—Requirements and Capabilities. The Directorate supports SACT in his Capabilities Requirement Authority (CRA) role. It is responsible for a holistic through lifecycle Capability Development approach that infuses innovation and transformative efforts that are an integral part of the Warfare Development. This includes responsibilities for elicitation, development, capture and collection, quality review, traceability and visibility of capability requirements.

The Capabilities Division coordinates the development of capabilities from capability planning through acceptance and then disposal with the management entities, NATO Headquarters staff and the NATO Governance Structure. This entails synchronizing horizontally across capabilities to achieve coherent efforts and outcomes.

The incumbent provides critical administrative support to ensure the capability development meets NATO’s short, medium and longer-term objectives.

Principal Duties:

• Provide subject matter expert administrative support to the range of Strategic Planning cell functions.
• Coordination and management of appropriate Strategic Planning Cell internal business processes, including but not limited to Tasker Tracker, SPC MS Teams environment, team calendar, team training, routine team meetings, and the staffing of SPC support requests.
• Coordination of Strategic Planning Cell support to external business processes, including but n