Staff Officer (Concept Development Analysis & Digital Enablement Lead)

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 Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate (SPP) acts on behalf of SACT to formulate policies, strategies, engagements, ACT contributions to NDPP, and analytical practices that enable the Commander to provide strategic foresight, planning, strategy and policy advice, concepts, and strategic engagement to NATO’s political and military leadership. Principal outputs include, but are not limited to: long term strategic foresight, strategic level concepts, situational awareness/strategic anticipation, Minimum Capability Requirements, Draft Capability Targets, Suitability Assessment of Allies and NATO Defence Plans, and regional and functional to security related environments.

The Concept Development Branch is ACT’s lead for the development of ACT, Bi-SC and NMA concepts. It provides guidance, advice, and coherence on conceptual development. It develops strategic and operational concepts applying NATO’s CD&E process.

The Concept Engagement Lead is responsible for planning, coordinating and executing the Concept Development Engagement Strategy, in line with the CD&E Policy. The Concept Engagement Lead will develop tailored engagement plans for MDO concepts under development, track and shape strategic engagement between key leaders related to conceptual development, and ensure coherent and consistent engagement with the wider concept development community of interest.

Principal Duties:

• Liaises with MDO implementation teams and consequent MDO related concept development project teams to identify their engagement requirements, turn these into a comprehensive engagement plans, and support the imple